Foreword Hearing people have great difficulty in imagining what it is like to be deaf, not least because deafness has many forms and guises. Even a temporary taste of deafness cannot prepare one adequately to face a future of impaired hearing. Thus when one is faced with the prospect of deafness for the rest of your life, you need to learn from the experience of others. In making that experience accessible to those who are newly deafened this booklet provides a valuable resource to help each individual person come to terms with their own individual deafness. I congratulate the authors on a timely, helpful and essential document. Tom Levitt MP The NADP Executive Committee gratefully acknowledges the contribution of Gavin Macpherson to the original edition of this Information Booklet Next Back to Contents