Deafness and Hearing Loss

both his mother and wife were deaf

Just like anyone with an education. They probably form concepts based on what they touch at first, and then like any person, they learn beyond that.

Deaf is a word use for people that can not hear.

Also many people may be partially deaf, which means they can hear some sounds but not clearly.

He certainly was not deaf- I do not know whether he needed a hearing aid.

Mainly to be assisted to learn sign language or lip reading. Also to have devices to help in some situations as i.e. a light that shows when the doorbell or telephone is ringing, an alarm clock with vibration or light, fire alarms with lights, burglar alarms with lights and to have the TV channels set with teletext. Furthermore, as there are dogs trained for the blind, there are also dogs trained for the deaf.

One need that the deaf have is socialization, since many of them are severely isolated by their inability to commuicate with people who do not know sign language. Many of them will appreciate every effort that a person makes to learn sign language and communicate with them. Even if the communication is through writing, with a person who doesn't speak sign language, it is so much better than total isolation. Computers are a big help too, since they can talk to people who don't know sign language, online. There are programs to make a computer useable for a deaf person, such as captions instead of sounds.

Yes, deaf people can learn to read and write. They learn much the same way you learned to read and write.

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A deaf person can feel the vibrations of the music, therefore, hearing it in a sense.

1. The first electric hearing aid, called the Akouphone, was created by Miller Reese Hutchison in 1898. It used a carbon button transmitter like a telephone, but could provide only limited amplification. These hearing aids could fit into a purse.
2. One of the first manufacturers of electric hearing aids was Siemens in 1913. Their hearing aids were bulky and not easily portable. They were about the size of a tall cigar box.
3. The first vacuum tube hearing aid was patented by Earl Hanson in 1920. It was called the Vactuphone and used a carbon button transmitter like a telephone to turn speech into electrical signals. After the signal was converted, it would be amplified when it moved to the receiver. The hearing aid weighed seven pounds. Marconi in England and Western Electric in the US began marketing vacuum tube hearing aids in 1923.
4. During the 1920s and 1930s, the vacuum tube hearing aid became more successful and began to decrease in size with better miniaturization techniques. The first wearable hearing aid using vacuum tubes went on sale in England in 1936, and a year later in America.
5. One of the major advances that World War II enabled was the idea of miniaturization. This could be seen by Zenith's pocket sized Miniature 75.
6. With the introduction of the transistor, hybrid vacuum tube & transistor hearing aids like the Sonotone 1010became available. The vacuum tubes were still needed because of noise problems with early transistors.
7. The first all transistor hearing aids were offered in 1952, called the Microtone Transimatic and the Maico Transist-ear. Hearing aids were one of very few applications that the transistors at that time could be used for as they did not operate at frequencies much above the audio range.
8. In 1964 Zenith sold a behind the ear hearing aid using an analog integrated circuit amplifier. It weighed just 7 grams.
9. In the late 1980s several companies used digital signal-processing chips in hearing aids, initially in hybrid analog-digital models in which digital circuits controlled an analog amplifier.
10. Fully digital models debuted in 1996, and programmable models adding general purpose microprocessors, became available in 2000.

Wal-Mart has a good selection of batteries, and down the road from my house there is a store specifically for hearing aids. You might have a store like that nearby, or maybe a Walgreen's.

Batteries (my size 10, lasts 4 days or more) can also ordered online through various sources that cost a GREAT deal less and are just as good.

Because they already suffered enough from your question.

He used to wear Starkey and Siemens.

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Hearing loss will not usually affect a persons sense of smell.

You turn deaf if you listen to extremely loud music or some kind of noise of that nature, or they were just born deaf :(

Dimitra Arapoglou was a deaf member of Greek parliament during 2007-2009. Andrew Foster was an American educator and Christian missionary to Africa.

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Yes and no. He was not legally deaf; he could hear you if you shout or yell.

no but i know there is some deaf people in krugerdorp and if you are wanting to join then let me know and we will make a team of our own!i love soccer and its will be good for a deaf people!

James 'Deaf' Burke was one of England's earliest boxing champions. He was tried for murder after one of his opponent's died from the beating that Burke gave him. After that he found it difficult to find matches and wound up travelling to America to fight. He passed away at the age of 36 from tuberculosis (1809-1845). He was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992. Click on the 'James Burke' link on this page to read more about him.