Mr. Derek Lacey:

Ms Brill suffers from Usher syndrome a sense and oral hearing loss, which we can say is age related. As time goes on her understanding of speech gets worse; it is clarity issues for her. As members will have noticed Ms Brill has participated in this meeting quite well. She has been able to read. She has been able to hear and able to converse with all present. This is because of the sense of the device she is wearing. It is able to take the speech and reduce it by compression to give the high frequencies more information so she is able to distinguish what is actually being said.