Washington Post (August 8)For those with hearing loss, face coverings make communication difficult. The solution?
See-through masks.It’s the summer of the mask. Homemade, commercial, makeshift or couture, mask mandates mean people’s lips are increasingly covered, if not sealed, in an attempt to curb transmission of the novel coronavirus.
But for millions of people who live with hearing loss in the United States, masks can make communication harder. Many deaf and hard-of-hearing people rely on facial cues and speech reading, also known as lip reading, to communicate.