How To Talk To HoH (Hard of Hearing) People

How To Talk To HoH (Hard of Hearing) People

The issue is NOT volume (it is easy to crank up the volume on a hearing aid), but discrimination. There is a term, SNR, which means signal-to-noise-ratio. Your voice needs to be louder than the surrounding noise and that's all.

Tips:

For tips on communicating with deaf, see

http://deafness.about.com/od/hearingbasic1/a/communicate.htm
http://www.wikihow.com/Communicate-With-Deaf-People
http://www.his.com/~lola/deaf.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_2056140_communicate-deaf-person.html
http://www.metrokc.gov/dias/ocre/deaftips.htm
http://www.deafblind.com/tipsdbp.html (deaf blind)
http://www.aadb.org/factsheets/db_communications.html (deaf blind)
http://www.ct.gov/dcf/cwp/view.asp?a=2546&q=317484 (legal)




Other Links:

http://shengchieh.50webs.com/HoHNotes.html
http://shengchieh.50webs.com/alphabet.html




Email is shengchieh [at symbol] linuxmail [period] org . Be warned: I do not see this email often. Please be patient.

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last modified on 9/19/13.