Essay On Partial Deafness

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Of course not. Just because Cece is deaf does not interfered of making friends. I believe that Cece's partial deafness does not interfere with her ability to develop relationships with others; friends and family. Because Its natural being deaf. Also because We are all humans, we are the same. Finally because she had friends over her childhood. My first claim is No,because Its natural being deaf. Then my evidence her abilities of making friends. I think she feels that she has to hide the phonic ear because It's big and nobody has it. But I think she should not hide it because it's natural the kids in her kindergarten some of them did not feel ashamed of their hearing aid so she should not feel ashamed. Then my second claim is No, because We are all humans, we ace is “And look! …show more content…
Then my evidence of my last claim is her friends over the years, Laura,ginny,martha and mike. Finally my last reasoning of my evidence is put the names of friends that Cece had over time time. Because my claim is that even because of her deafness, she still made friends they not be the best friends but she did have friends and the other side said that her deafness affected her so that's not true at all. Now, some might argue that Cece's partial deafness interfere with her ability to develop relationships with others; friends and family. It does interfered because people think she is different and people think she is weird. Her deafness interferes with the ability of making friends. But the argument that I support is Cece's partial deafness does not interfere with her ability to develop relationships with others; friends and family. because It's natural being deaf. we are humans and we are equal.Last is even when her deafness she still had friends. The key points are that They say her hearing aid makes her look weird but i think you should not care there what he or she looks because all it matters is the

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