I’m glad he likes it. That’s always been my main concern with such technologies. I’m Deaf and would pursue this, but I also will always be Deaf in my experiences and am sympathetic to the fears of the community. We have a long history of hearing people ignoring what the individual wants when it comes to dealing with deafness. I wish I was taught sign as a HoH child, I’m grateful I was given hearing aids, but I needed both and I needed sympathy for when the act of hearing was too much and I needed them out. Fortunately my HoH mom was sympathetic, but teachers and my hearing father were much less so. And I’ve seen the trend of hearing people jumping against Deaf concerns with new technologies without bothering to understand why we have our concerns. Please don’t do that. Our culture and opinions exist for reasons.
We have a beautiful culture and sign language is valuable. Additionally I’ll still have an auditory processing disorder so visual communication will always be more effective for me.
I’m glad he likes it. That’s always been my main concern with such technologies. I’m Deaf and would pursue this, but I also will always be Deaf in my experiences and am sympathetic to the fears of the community. We have a long history of hearing people ignoring what the individual wants when it comes to dealing with deafness. I wish I was taught sign as a HoH child, I’m grateful I was given hearing aids, but I needed both and I needed sympathy for when the act of hearing was too much and I needed them out. Fortunately my HoH mom was sympathetic, but teachers and my hearing father were much less so. And I’ve seen the trend of hearing people jumping against Deaf concerns with new technologies without bothering to understand why we have our concerns. Please don’t do that. Our culture and opinions exist for reasons.
We have a beautiful culture and sign language is valuable. Additionally I’ll still have an auditory processing disorder so visual communication will always be more effective for me.