The Patriot Post® · Kentucky College Student Makes Masks for Hearing Impaired

“‘I just saw that people were making masks on Facebook for everyone to have instead of the throwaway masks, and I was like, what about the deaf and hard of hearing population?’ explained the 21-year-old Kentuckian college senior. Lawrence is studying education for the hearing impaired and spotted the gap.”

“‘I felt like there was a huge population that was being looked over,’ Lawrence said. ‘We’re all panicking right now and so a lot of people are just not being thought of. So, I felt like it was very important that, even at a time like this, people need to have that communication.’ She also explained why these masks — which sport a transparent plastic window in the front to enable lip-reading — are so important:”

ASL is very big on facial expressions and it is part of the grammar. So I don’t know if you have seen Virginia Moore on Andy Beshear’s things at five o'clock, but she’s very emotive, and if half of that is gone because you’re wearing a mask, then half of what you’re saying is being missed, so even if it’s not physically talking and just using ASL, then you need to have that kind of access.

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