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Originally Posted by shel90
I am sure that is the case. That's what makes me pissed off is that I didnt have that growing up...would have saved me a lot of misery!
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I bet it would have. I feel the same way even though I had moderately-severe hearing loss in high school. If I had been given access to tactile sign, I'm sure school would have been much easier for me. We did have a Deaf student in my high school. Like me being the only blind student, she was the only Deaf student. Sometimes I envied her because she was able to use a terp in class and understand everything that was said. I had difficulty hearing female voices from the back of the room as well as hearing speech in background noise.
There was also a time when I was hospitalized for severe depression after I lost my hearing. There was a Deaf patient there who used a terp. It infuriated me because he could understand everything that was being said in group therapy while I could not. That only fueled my anger and made my hearing loss that much more difficult to accept.