Saturday, June 5, 2010

How I View My Hearing Loss, Culture, and Hearing Technologies (via face me, i read lips)

My Deaf History and My "Culture" I was born hearing.  Having a progressive hearing loss means that most my life I could hear pretty well with the use of hearing aids.  Though I am now profoundly deaf in most speech frequencies,  I can still hear many sounds without hearing aids. Hearing people don't have their own separate culture.   Culturally I am White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.  I don't see Deaf culture as inferior, but it's not MY culture.  "He … Read More

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