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Again, there is no reason that a person with hearing difficulty cannot operate keyboards and mice normally.
Hearing Disability
Sound/hearing People with hearing problems usually find it difficult to control their own sound output – creates difficulties for voice input devices. Cannot hear speech output systems (e.g. from screen readers).
poster yourMany people who are deaf or hard of hearing communicate either by sign-language (formal or informal) or by lip-reading – and often by both. It comes as a surprise to many people that different countries have different sign languages and even finger-spelling alphabets – American Sign Language (ASL) is different from British Sign Language (BSL).
The deaf and hard of hearing can also read information directly off screen or printout and this is a useful way to communicate too. For the deaf and hard of hearing who are unable to lip read or otherwise find it difficult to hold a conversation (for example, people who don’t lip read will often turn their head away from the listener or may put a hand over their mouth during conversation) hardware devices can be used to assist: “The hearing impaired hope to use [a voice-recognition system] as a portable communication aid to output the speech of others on a monitor.”
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