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At five months of age, O'Neil contracted simultaneous childhood diseases, [nb 1] [15] losing her hearing. After her deafness became apparent at the age of two, her mother taught her lip-reading and speech, eventually becoming a speech therapist and co-founding a school for students with hearing impairment in Wichita Falls, Texas .
Deafness (little to no hearing) is distinguished from partial hearing loss or damage (such as tinnitus), which is less severe impairment in one or both sides. The definition of deafness varies across countries, cultures, and time, though the World Health Organization classes profound hearing loss as the failure to hear a sound of 90 decibels or ...
Either hearing loss is a significant risk factor for driving and should prevent or limit people from driving, or it’s not a risk factor and deaf drivers shouldn’t face any additional hurdles ...
NOVA explores the different means by which hearing-impaired people have learned to penetrate the world of the hearing by visiting with Kitty O'Neil—a woman record-holding speed car racer; Frances Parsons, an advocate of hearing-impaired persons' rights; and workers at Silent Industries—a factory in Los Angeles founded by a deaf man.
To qualify for this designation, applicants must demonstrate a hearing loss with a pure tone average of 500, 1,000 and 2,000 hertz of 41 decibels or greater in the better ear, whether aided or ...
A Kew Gardens teen has been honored with the New York City Girl Scout’s highest award for her work bringing the movie theater experience to the hearing-impaired community — a barrier she ...
Hard of hearing and uses a hearing aid. [58] 2018 Gary Goodspeed Olan Rogers: Final Space: He has a prosthetic, cybernetic arm. [59] 2016 Izetta Himika Akaneya: Izetta: The Last Witch: She is a wheelchair user. [60] 2018 Kazi Ashleica Edmond The Dragon Prince: Sunfire Elf sign language interpreter. [61] [62] 2020 Eleanor Kimble Cassidy Marie Huff
Marcus James Titus (born May 20, 1986) is a deaf American swimmer who has made it as far as eighth place in the 2012 Olympic Trials.Titus won a state championship at Flowing Wells High School and is a 12-time-All-American at Arizona, he was a major figure in the US’s 2008 NCAA championship team, and he was previously a coach for the 2013 Deaflympic team.