A college student in Kentucky is looking out for the hard of hearing community during the coronavirus pandemic.NBC-affiliate LEX18 reports that Eastern Kentucky University senior Ashley Lawrence designed and is now actually producing face masks for those with hearing issues.
The project is clearly personal to her, given that the 21-year-old student is studying education for the deaf and hard of hearing.The masks, which Lawrence and her mother have been sewing using bed sheets and plasic fabric, covers the user's mouth but also has a sheer plastic window that makes the mouth visible to others.«I felt like there was a huge population that was being looked over,» Lawrence tells the local news outlet of the origins of her idea. «We're all