Psychology student Rachel Wayne shares her insights as a young person with hearing issues in three posts for the Sci-Ed blog. Rachel wears hearing-aids, speaks, lip-reads and accesses digital content via captioned media and transcripts (using text to read).
Read Rachel’s guest posts:
- Pardon Me? How To Talk With A Hearing-Aid Wearer
- Hearing Issues In Post-Secondary Education
- Strategies For Students, Educators And Colleagues
The “burden” of advocacy is in Rachel’s posts. While “advocacy is a social and moral issue” she says, the more young deaf people who go to college and educate their peers, educators and colleagues about hearing issues and access, the better an outcome for everyone.
Rachel’s final point about current systems:
Until disability awareness is taught in schools, until it becomes part of a wider discussion, then we must step up, one student, one individual at a time [to speak for ourselves and educate everyone else]. For if we don’t, then who will?
More Reading
- Deaf Students Bring Lived Experience To Careers
- Classroom Captions Entrenching In The UK And US
- Learning Modern Languages At School
- Newstalk: “What Is It Like To Go Deaf Overnight?”
- Biographies And Novels With Deaf Characters
- Student Legal Cases For Captions Almost Settled
- A Nurse With Hearing Issues Retrains In Audiology
- Lip-Reading Challenges In The Hearing World
