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for us, is never silent. Please understand we are listening always with our eyes.... Hearing and Deaf must learn together, live together, change together. I can tell you from the Deaf side. Even we can’t hear the rain falling, but we listen from our eyes. Hearing…

With this text messaging available, the hearing impaired can communicate just as any other. Technology has made it capable to transmit not just the spoken word, but also the written word through telephone lines. Now that television shows and movies are equipped with the technology to include closed captioning, the hearing-impaired can view them. Listening devices can now be used with the telephone, TV, radio, or theaters. These include such things as hearing aids, telephone amplifiers,…

and hard of hearing students.…

individuals, English is a second language and a language that they may not be completely literate in. This is critical to consider as most health care information is delivered in English and may not have a translated version in ASL. Deaf and hard of hearing individuals are more visual, it seems intuitive that a solution may lie within biomedical visualization. What is the best way to supply information…

her father, brother and herself were capable of hearing. Within this report, I am going to elaborate not only what was going on throughout the text, but my personal feelings towards the tough…

she was limited. Ashley is not seen as handicapped in any of the communities she is a part of. Anyone no matter who you are can learn something from Ashley. She has an inspiring story. She put herself in a situation where she had to compete with hearing males when she is a Deaf female. She is an inspiration to deaf people because she never saw herself as limited. She learned to ride a motorcycle based on the vibrations instead of the sound she makes jokes about not being able to hear the smack…

Over the years her hearing aids slowly stopped working and physicians encouraged getting cochlear implants. By the age of eleven, she had implants in both ears. “Luckily, in the years leading up to my implants, before I lost all sense of hearing, I was able to develop the strong speaking skills I have today,” said Zahneis. Deaf culture has recently experienced a breakthrough in society through pop culture. In the United States alone there are over 4,000,000 people with a hearing disability.…

senses can seem difficult and overwhelming at times, but entering a world where people don 't need their ears to understand the commotion of this crazy world is beautiful. You rely on your eyes and hands to connect with everyone around you. Being a hearing person entering a deaf community or event is terrifying yet intriguing. My experience interacting with the deaf community has had its highs and lows. When we first received our assignment to venture out and to interact with the deaf community…

d/Deaf children with d/Deaf parents. Despite a large number of hearing parent having d/Deaf children only about 10% of those families actually, learn to communicate with their children effectively. (TEDxTalk. 2013. 5:15 – 5:47). This obviously leads to many developmental and psychological issues in deaf children with hearing parents. The disconnect adds to feelings of isolation and oddness that is already felt by deaf children in the hearing world. On the contrary, deaf children born to d/Deaf…

When Hearing Coaches coach deaf athletes there can be a lot of confusion but there are some things that can bring faster success results. Teammates and coaches need to be sure that the deaf athlete is facing coach during instructions and soaking up information. If interpreters are used they should be standing next to the coach when in the huddle to communicate with the child letting them know what to do. Hearing coaches have to be nice to deaf athletes because…