Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!26!Stu.Turk From: Stu.Turk@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Stu Turk) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: HEARING IMPAIRED Message-ID: <15929@bunker.UUCP> Date: 27 Nov 90 21:48:41 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Stu.Turk@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/26 - SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA Lines: 28 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 12016 [This is from the Silent Talk Conference] Lee Levin of 1:300/14 wrote to All: LL> My daughter (age 19) is hearing impaired. She wears aids in both LL> ears. Things hve been stable for about 6 years but at her last LL> fitting for molds they said there was a change for the worse. She LL> has neve been totally deaf and it appears that she will still LL> hear with the use the aids. = Er, did they saw _what_ had changed for the worse? Did they give her a hearing test in addition to the mold fitting? If not maybe they only ment that there is a noticable change in the size/shape of the earmolds, not neccessarly her hearing. LL> I notice that users of this echo refer to 'deaf' and not hearing LL> impaired. At what point is a hearing impaired person condidered LL> deaf? = If you can answer back, you're "hearing impaired". If you can't answer back, you're "deaf". -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!26!Stu.Turk Internet: Stu.Turk@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org