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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 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. |
