[Commentary] Let’s not add communication problems to Covid-19 issues
Originally published August 6, 2020 by Delaware State News
Linda Heller, the president of the Hearing Loss Association of Delaware, writes that transparent facemasks should become standard because they allow people with hearing loss and other disabilities to read a speaker’s lips and see more nonverbal facial cues. She also advises those who are speaking to people with hearing loss to speak slowly and clearly, not loudly, and remove nontransparent masks if they are able to remain far enough away. Heller is a member of the CDS community advisory council.
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