Category: People
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How Aware Are you?
Deaf Awareness Week 2023 How d/Deaf aware are you? Consider these guiding questions to get you thinking: What does a d/Deaf person look like? How do they smell? When do they shower? Where do d/Deaf people live? Who is more likely to have d/Deaf children? Intrigued? I’ve been told many a time “Wow! You don’t…
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World Hearing Day 2023
Today marks World Hearing Day, and we reached out to some friends and colleagues to find out what hearing means to them! Hearing is obviously one of our core senses, those whose hearing is compromised need to rely on other senses to compensate and gain access to information around them. One of the areas most…
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World Cochlear Implant Day 2023 – A User’s Perspective
Today is World Cochlear Implant Day! In anticipation of the special day, we spoke with our friend and bilateral Cochlear Implant user, Andrea Lepore. Cochlear Implants allow those with hearing loss not well managed with hearing aids to immerse themselves into the hearing world. A far cry from the body-worn devices first used in the…
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It’s All About Teamwork
A number of people have asked us how we replicate what we have achieved over the last 18 months. How do they make a High School more accessible for those with hearing loss? How do they create student advocates, and staff who understand some of what it means to have a sensory loss? The answer…