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“Turn your hearing aid up” is how most people respond to a deaf person not hearing what they said.
Doctors speak away from or speak low when telling their patient what they want them to do. This is a no-no when talking to a deaf person because they either don’t hear them or don’t understand what they are saying.
Deaf people have to be talked to face to face and spoken to clearly and normally.
Hearing aids are a benefit, but people do not understand that they are an aid, not a way to hear normally. Why? Hearing aids have their use, but the battery runs down and has an area where they are not dead but where the deaf person does not hear clearly.
Blind people have their white canes. Deaf people have their hearing aids, and people misunderstand that the person can hear normally.
Solution: People talk directly to the deaf person and try to understand what the deaf person is hearing or not hearing.
Barry Kitchen
Orillia
