A Face Mask for Helping Hearing Impaired Patients

If you're hearing impaired and rely upon reading lips to understand what other people are saying, then face masks are a huge obstacle. That's why Ashley Lawrence, a college student in Kentucky who is studying to work with hearing impaired people, designed a mask with a clear plastic covering. News station Lex18 quotes her:

"For anyone who uses speech reading, lip reading, anybody like that," Lawrence said about the purpose of the masks. "And people who are profoundly deaf who use ASL as their primary mode of communication. 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." [...]
"I'm not charging anything for them because I think that if you need them, then you need them and I don't think that you should have to pay for them," Lawrence said. "So we are sending them out for free whenever we have people asking for them and if they're foreign, then maybe we'll charge shipping, but other than that they're completely free."

-via My Modern Met


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