Article from The Limping Chicken by NDCS's Ian Noon on concentration fatigue of deaf children.I went to a great conference today. It was riveting and I was hooked on pretty much every word.
And then I got home and collapsed on the sofa. I’m not just tired, I’m shattered. I’ve had to turn my ears off to rest in silence and my eyes are burning. I’ve also had about 3 cups of tea just to write this paragraph.
Boo-hoo, so the Noon is tired, so what? True. People go through worse.
But I do also think the fact that the impact of deafness doesn’t just manifest itself in communication is ever really that well understood. It’s about the energy involved in lipreading and being attentive all day long.
Processing and constructing meaning out of half-heard words and sentences. Making guesses and figuring out context. And then thinking of something intelligent to say in response to an invariably random question.
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Just another day at the office for me lol..... it hones your skills too, no pain no gain.
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ReplyDeleteNice read! I also love to attend conferences on hearing loss and deafness as my child is suffering from this disease. it is really very difficult to describe the word “DEAF”. If a person is suffering from deafness, he may either deaf using a sign language or both deaf and could not speak. Deafness is often used to describe people with any degree of hearing loss, from mild to profound. Hidden Hearing specialists say that the deaf people cannot speak an oral language, or he may have some degree of speaking ability, but choose not to speak because of the negative or unwanted attention.
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