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Is Hearing Device a Magic Wand?
When looking at people using hearing devices (hearing aids and cochlear implants), don’t assume that they can hear and understand everything. It’s not like wearing eyeglasses that gives ...
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Bullying Inside the Deaf/HOH Community
Shanna Groves, the deaf author and speaker, has been writing a lot about stopping hearing loss bullying. Many of us deaf/hoh people have experienced bullying by hearing people, and most of it is us ...
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Why is Open Captioning the Best Solution for Movie Theaters?
I am writing a follow up to my article, Fire Alarm to Protest Against a Captioned Movie? – where I mentioned about a 30-something man pulling fire alarm to protest against the open-captioned ...
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Can You Lipread?
It’s the first and the most favorite question hearing people would ask deaf people – even after some deaf people ask them to write down or type what they say. However, it’s one of ...
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Hearing Loss and Stigma
There are 48 millions of deaf and hard of hearing people in the USA or 20% of the total USA population, but only 1 in 5 of people who could benefit from hearing aids use them. The major reasons are ...
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