Unilateral Hearing Loss / Single Sided Deafness If you have this sort of "impairment" or "challenge," you likely feel rather isolated and alone in your "condition." But you (or your child) likely have learned many coping mechanisms that allow for pretty "normal" functioning day to day. But there are also instances that, no matter how hard you try to cope, leave you frustrated and isolated. For instance, take a stereo head-phone set... you know the kind that allows half of of the ser to project one instrument and the other half to project another instrument or the base of the music. That's great - that's stereo - if you have hearing in both ears; but if you have a hearing loss, you miss half the music or half of whatever is playing on your headphones. Or, take a simple whisper in the ear... ooops, wrong ear! and you have to turn to the other side... sometimes seeming pretty disruptive when a fully-hearing person would have quickly heard the whispered message. Stuff like that makes unilateral hearing loss a constant reality - an isolating disability. |
Hearing
loss does NOT mean ignorance.
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LOSS - DEAFNESS Here are some Sign Language links:
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