Interview On Becoming Deaf

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I think the interview went well. It was a short notice interview but it didn’t seem to effect the interview. I think this interview would have been different if the person I interviewed was born deaf. I enjoyed the dynamics of the interview because it wasn’t the typical answers you would hear from a deaf person. I am not here to psychoanalysis the person I interviewed, so I will not make assumptions nor will I try to figure out their thought process. All I can do is reflect on the interview and give my thoughts about who they are. Becoming deaf is not something easy, and he expressed it during the interview. There has been some improvement to help with the deaf communities like, captions on television, phones with lights when they ring. But

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