deafness

So here's a musician.

You would think, what's the worst disease that a musician could possibly be afflicted with? Well, deafness.

and not being able to hear even some of the music that he composed, he couldn't necessarily hear it.

You would think this is a terrible affliction, and yet God gave him that affliction, and he overcame the affliction to the glory of God.

Hey, a stranger here? Why in heaven could you have said that in the first place? Of course I'm a stranger here.

Doggone, what's so plain funny about the witness being hard of hearing? The next idiot of Snickers is leaving here pronto.

Proceed with the examination.

And you was riding the stage to El Dorado on the night of June 13th?

You know, Kimisabe, I have an idea that Kenny is acquainted with Mason, too.

Why do you think

that? Did you notice how hard of hearing he got when he was asked if he knew anybody by that name? He looked at me as though he didn't want to understand the question.

Maybe him not tell truth about

[laughs] I mean, I've, I've worked with all sorts of clients.

I actually have yet to work with a deaf or hard of hearing client.

I mean, so give us some advice for those who are, are, are g- going to be working with people.

What are some simple things we can do to make the experience more inclusive and enjoyable for our clients?

And so I know when you said that, I'm like, man, that would, that would be a struggle for me, but what a lesson, just life lesson, to just slow down, whether they can hear you or not, and listen and communicate in the present moment.

Exactly, and that, that's why I, um, I made a ASL Realty, which is actually...

I, I, I personally am in Colorado, so and then I developed ASL Realty, which is a na- a nationwide one, where I, I connect deaf and hard of hearing clients with A- ASL agents in their area i- if I can find one.

And so my advice is to, if you don't know ASL, re- refer the client to so- someone who does.

And that's what my dad always taught me.

And so I think for me, growing up in a deaf and hard of hearing household taught me how to be resilient and have empathy for others because we were always like made fun of as a child.

And I've always stuttered my entire life anyways.

So I went to speech therapy.

we overlook.

I think I feel like I'm more aware of situations.

And I think that's the purpose was of the book to let everybody know, because it's not just for the deaf and hard of hearing community.

It's for anybody who wants to learn to communicate better and just have awareness of what's going on around you and just make sure no one feels left out and so I even have people who read the book who aren't in the deaf and hard of hearing community say oh I've never thought about that perspective like you actually opened my eyes to different perspectives and how people can misunderstand things