Stubborn Older Deaf Person
Monday January 17, 2005
A frustrated About visitor wrote:
My 82 year old mother-in-law is now completely deaf and is losing touch with the people around her. When she began losing her hearing about ten years ago, I started taking sign language and tried to get her to learn along with me, but to no avail.
My 82 year old mother-in-law is now completely deaf and is losing touch with the people around her. When she began losing her hearing about ten years ago, I started taking sign language and tried to get her to learn along with me, but to no avail.
She has stubbornly refused to learn ASL. Everyone now must write out by hand on paper or on an ecto-sketch pad everything we say to her. Are there any other devices that use type or speech activated responses? - K.T.
Comments
If your mother in law was losing her sight would you have learned braille or excpected her to? Late deafened adults strugle to stay within the “hearing world” , they are hearing people who have lost their hearing . To loose ones hearing can have a traumatic affect and needs understanding and concideration . clear speach , writen word , finger spelling leters that are unseable . Gaining confidence and being accepted as deafened not Deaf , understanding the difference all would have helped at the onset of her hearing loss