Hi Kent – Challenging Deafness!
Do you have hearing loss or live with a person or child who has hearing loss?

Hi Kent is an independent charity and works in partnership with the KCC and Medway Council Social Services, providing a wide range of useful services. It is accessible to all age groups and to people with any degree of hearing loss.

Most of the services are free of cost to the client.

The aims of Hi Kent are to:

• Enable hearing impaired people to overcome the socially isolating aspects of being or becoming deaf by the provision of information and environmental equipment.
• To enable elderly, frail people to maximise the benefits of hearing aids by offering maintenance and after-care of aids through Day Centre clinics and visits to the housebound.
• To raise awareness of the needs of hearing impaired people through training courses.
  There are Resource Centres at Canterbury, Gillingham and Maidstone, providing access to the full range of Hi Kent services. They are open every weekday and an appointment is not usually necessary.

At the centres there are working displays of technical aids to help with communication in everyday living – loop systems for use with TV or Radio, Flashing Light and Vibrating Pagers for Doorbells, Amplified and Text Telephones, Alarm Clocks, Baby Alarms etc. For those of you who attend meetings or lectures, there are personal listening devices to assist with social conversation and business meetings.

The centres are manned by friendly and helpful people who fully appreciate the problems of living with hearing loss.

If you need further help or advice their telephone nos are:
01622 691151 (Maidstone)
01227 760046 (Canterbury)
01634 825 043 (Medway)
email: enquiries@hikent.org.uk
website: http://www.hikent.org.uk
Sheila Lee