I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call

Re:I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call by pugworthy on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:48PM (#24947202)

I'm repeating this from below because it needs to be visible. Your statistics and conclusions are wrong. You're selling this fiction that deafness is just an "old persons" thing. You're cherry picking perhaps a statistic about people being totally deaf, but inclusion and accommodation doesn't just start when someone is fully deaf.

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (see https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/quick-statistics...)...

Among adults aged 20-69, the overall annual prevalence of hearing loss dropped slightly from 16 percent (28.0 million) in the 1999-2004 period to 14 percent (27.7 million) in the 2011–2012 period.

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Re:I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call by centimeter on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:50PM (#24947218)

Partial hearing loss isn't the same as deafness and doesn't require the same interventions. You are being misleading.

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Re:I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call by centimeter on Saturday October 31, 2020 @01:26AM (#24949341)

Hahahaha, awesome - instead of substantively addressing the argument, just go with “hmm, your comment sounds pretty racist, despite having nothing to do with race”. Killer strategy

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