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Get vaccinated so I can communicate again.

Title (Dublin Core)

Get vaccinated so I can communicate again.

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As I’m sure you’ve seen and experienced, mask mandates are starting to come back. In stores, offices, and on my college campus as well.

As a person with hearing loss, masks make it so difficult me for me to communicate. I rely so heavily on lipreading, seeing how the mouth moves when speaking, to understand what is said. Without lipreading, my speech recognition is around 16%. This means with masks, I can only absorb 16% of all interactions - that is incredibly isolating.

When I go back to the classroom in September, it’s going to be so difficult to navigate the classroom setting when I can’t understand anyone. My teachers will have clear masks provided, but what about during group work or when students ask questions that I might also have? I’m going to completely miss out on the college experience I’ve been longing for for a year and a half because people won’t get vaccinated.

I’m tired of disclosing my hearing loss to check out at a store. I’m tired of constantly fighting for closed captioning for online lectures. I’m tired of living in a pandemic where we have a solution to end it.

Vaccines work. Vaccines save lives. Getting the vaccine means you’re helping deaf and hard of hearing people get back to a place where they can communicate again.

SAVE this post and SHARE to spread awareness. This topic is NOT talked about enough and it’s something that affects the deaf and hard of hearing community every single day.

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Date (Dublin Core)

August 10, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

ktnlifts

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

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Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Clothing & Accessories
English Public Health & Hospitals
English Emotion

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

mask
vaccine
mandate
disability
hearing loss
communication
frustration

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

disability
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mask mandate
college
hearing loss
communication

Collection (Dublin Core)

Deaf, deaf, and HOH Perspectives

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

05/28/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

06/02/2022
08/02/2022

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