People who are profoundly deaf can use some equipment to help them with their daily lives.
What equipment?
- Smoke alarms
- Flashing door bells
- Alert pager systems linked to baby monitors
- Door alert systems
- Telephone amplifiers
Your local council will have a service where they can loan equipment or they can help you get the equipment you need. Not all councils are the same but you need to ask – these are the links to the different council’s equipment website pages in the North East.
Newcastle City Council equipment
Gateshead Council
North Tyneside Council
South Tyneside
You can also buy different equipment from other organisations like these - click on their logo to go to their website.