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Melinda Hildebrandt: The top 10 dumbest comments & questions I have heard about my daughter’s deafness

October 17, 2013 by

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Throughout the last two years, I’ve had to introduce my daughter Amelia’s deafness to a lot of different people. In […]

Melinda Hildebrandt: I was scared to say terms like ‘hearing impaired’

October 2, 2013 by

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In the months following my daughter Amelia’s diagnosis of hearing loss, I picked up a strange habit when introducing her […]

Mark Levin: Let’s eradicate the term ‘hearing impaired’

September 23, 2013 by

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It started with a simple Facebook status: “Please, please, puh-lease, eradicate the word ‘hearing impaired’ from your vocabulary and all […]