Seven-year-old Leia Armitage lived in total silence for the first two years of her life ... a rare form of profound deafness. Leia, from Dagenham in east London, had no inner ear or hearing ...

One of these girls was born profoundly deaf. She's the one carrying the conversation. Three-year-old Ella Muse failed her newborn hearing screening in the hospital. A few weeks later, she had a ...

Nothing helped. I kept getting ear infections and by the age of 14 was classed as profoundly deaf. Because I had spent so much time in hospital as a child, I was interested in the medical world ...

A woman from Bodicote said she "couldn't imagine life" without her specially-trained hearing dog. Natalie Barrows, 32, was born with moderate bilateral hearing loss, which has progressively worsened ...

The life of a young deaf mother from Bodicote has been transformed by her specially-trained hearing dog, who alerts her to important and life-saving sounds – and tells her when her baby is crying.