Have you ever communicates with people with hearing difficulties? Well, my grandmother are having this problem and i think some of your grandparents are facing this problem too. We think that it is hard to communicate with them and tends to get impatient with them. Do you ever imagine how they feel?
Research show that 3 out of 1,000 babies are born with hearing loss with make it the most common birth defect. People that can not hear like us have a lower self-esteem, therefore we should treat them nicely and show them that they are still important and we care for them. People that are born deaf usually attend special school when they were young. These special school teach them sign language which is one of the best way for deaf and mute people to communicates. They also boost the confidence in them and provide them knowledge on everyday functioning. In the other hand, people who loss their hearing due to aging or accident usually use a hearing aid to help them listen better because they do not completely loss their hearing. However, they still have difficulty listening to certain words.
Here are some tips on how to communicates with people with hearing difficulties. Try to expose yourself to information on communication of people with hearing disabilities. For example, learn some lip-reading, sign language, gestures and more. Show some sincerity when you communicates with them. Never speak with your back to the person, and be close to the person when you communicates. Misunderstood of one word can make a person lost the meaning of a sentence, if this situation occur, rephrase your sentence instead of repeating it. Do not say 'never mind' because this respond will give the person with hearing problem low self-esteem.
There are various way of communication even we had lost one of our ability because God gave us human abilities and the knowledge to use them.
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