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From: Diane.Oliff@p0.f197.n253.z2.fidonet.org (Diane Oliff)
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Subject: Re: Deaf/hearing Impaired
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Date: 5 Jan 90 03:40:13 GMT
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MC*> I am troubled by the notion that there are no significant
MC*> differences between deaf and "hearing impaired" people.
MC*> While neither can hear normally, there is at least one
MC*> significant difference.  Most of us, classified as hearing impaired
MC*> have in the past and still can communicate oral/aurally with each other
MC*> and with the hearing world.

I agree, but don't also forget the ones of us that grew up with severe 
hearing loss but have subsequently improved.. in my own case I was born with 
severe bilateral microtia (no proper ears) and no formed auditory canal. I 
could hear noises because the auditory process was (and is) present but 
until an auditory canal was constructed when I was nine I never had any 
clarity of hearing at all (and am still way down on what people like to call 
'normal'.

I really didnt learn to talk properly until then, but I am told now that I 
have quite a nice voice (it sounds very squeaky to me but apparently it 
isn't).

MC*> or cued speech (thought this would be very helpful
MC*>if the one we were trying to communicate with knew it),

What is cued speech?

Diane Oliff  
 

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