Essay on sensory loss

When you first approach a blind person, always say, “Hello,” followed by a reassuring pat on the arm or shoulder or a handshake. If it’s someone you don’t know, introduce yourself.

In Mark Drolsbaugh’s book, Deaf Again, he is able to bring the reader through his life struggles and triumphs as a member of the Deaf community. There were three major themes that reoccurred throughout his life. These themes consist of communication barriers, a negative image on deafness, and limitations on social experiences. An example of communication barriers starts in the beginning with his birth. From the beginning, he talked about how his parents struggled to communicate with the doctors when the epidural was not administered properly or when the anesthesia machine was not working. This communication barrier caused his mother to go through a natural birth and almost lose her life because she could not tell the doctors that something was wrong. Under the circumstances that Drolsbaugh’s grandparents did whatever they could to preserve his hearing this left him with feelings that deafness is bad. This notion fostered a negative self-image. Due to Drolsbaugh’s loss of hearing he had a hard time making meaningful social connections. This affected him greatly in his dating life. As he talked about in the book he dated a girl who was hearing but could sign for three years until they broke up. He said how he tried to hold onto that relationship because he knew that there are not many girls that he knew at the time that could sign and be able to communicate with him fully. This affected him socially with friends as well.

A range of factors can impact individuals with sensory loss, such as blind or partly sighted individuals struggle to read peoples facial expressions, which are important for communication. Also not realizing someone is talking to an individual if they are walking past or stood behind them can be frustrating. Written communication can also be problematic for partly sighted individuals. Larger font may help overcome these issues. People who are hard of hearing can also become frustrated as they can’t hear day to day noises such as the doorbell, telephone ring or people talking to them directly. This may make them feel with drawn from others and lonely.

1. Sight loss - identify yourself and you need to make it clear that you are speaking to them and not someone else, they can't read your body language so you need to be clear about your meanings and directions etc, a noisy environment can make it difficult for them to concentrate on your voice and so on.Hearing loss - be respectful when trying to get their attention eg use a light touch on the arm, if they lip read they need to see your face, you need to speak clearly at a normal pace and tone, you may need to be patient and repeat things. Deafblindness - some of the above and you need to know the levels of deafness and blindness and their preferred method of communication.

1.3 If a person’s hearing or sight is impaired, body language and tone of voice will become more important. They may also need to learn new skills such as sign language or lip reading in order to be able to communicate. Making sure the person's glasses is the correct prescription, that their hearing aids are working properly, that they are looking at your face when you speak so that they can lip read, keeping your communication simple and clear, using visual prompts, light touches to their arms to gain attention etc.

Being blind or partially sighted means losing the ability to see facial expressions and gestures making it difficult for the person to understand what is being communicated. Not being able to read

* Blindness you may need to explain things more clearly as they cannot read your body language. Always check with the individual that they can hear you ok. Maybe put your hand on their arm to let them know you are there.

I was interested in immersing myself with this group because they are a community of people that I’ve often wondered about. I’ve always wondered about the way they communicate with others and was it hard being deaf or hearing impaired in some ways. As myself, I learned that most people feel uncomfortable when meeting a Deaf person for the first time and this is very normal. When we communicate with people, we generally don’t have to think about the process. When faced with a Deaf person, we are uncertain which rules apply. We don’t know where to look, or how fast or loud to speak. When the Deaf person gives us a look of confusion, we don’t know how to correct the problem. Accept the fact that your initial

Sensory impairment could be a barrier to effective communication they can prevent service users and health care professionals from communicating correctly, this is because they interfere with a service user’s ability to send, receive and understand a message. According to Collins Education sensory impairment is the key issue why service users with sensory impairments are more exposed to ineffective care and their needs are not always met. This would make the service users have a low self-esteem because they will be left confused and unaware about their health.

The first challenge being social dominance patterns and attitude. This challenge is definitely a struggle for many new learners. People think that the deaf are nothing more than handicapped human beings that can’t do normal

Take a second, close your eyes, and imagine silence. Nothing is going on around you; you can't even hear a pin drop. Not a sound to be heard for miles. You open your eyes expecting the world to come to life, and everything to breath wavelengths into your ears, but instead, you are met with an ocean of nothingness. People hustle about you, yelling at you to move out of their way, but still… nothing. This is the reality of a deaf person's world. Every day they wake up to this, and nothing more. When out in public, they must learn to communicate, to fend for themselves while the hearing go on with their lives as normal. We don't even realize how blessed we are as a hearing person, until it's gone. One way to dissolve this issue is by offering

The people is different to change their life include hard of hearing and deaf are both between a mind of us to communicate as world happen is a national with problems. The hard of hearing to know everything fine use experience for talking and can hear is clearly. Also for deaf can't hear is full because use American Sign Language (ASL) skill language make something says to understand with people has a community.

The actions that should be taken if there are concerns about onset of sensory loss or change in sensory status as follows.

People who are hearing aid user have said that there was “ a change in their family’s demeanor, which may be due to them finally being able to communicate and enjoy family life “(newsmax), Families have been more connected than before due to how effective hearing aids have been to the users and how effectively people hear what other say. Other studies say that getting hearing aids has allowed people to be more active and social due to having a higher level of confidence than before. Additionally, another study says that having hearing loss increases self consciousness. Due to how people react to people to those with hearing loss, people start to not be affected by how society has reacted to them. Those people believe that what society has to say about them is not important to them anymore. The self esteem of one grows due to how those people know that the hearing aids are helping them and society simply does not understand

Studies show that deaf people don’t really see that their physical disability as a problem, it’s how they think the world might see their the problem. “Deafness often stress the importance of deaf education for individuals diagnosed with the condition, which should ideally start at a very young age.” As for culturally, “stress the beauty of being deaf, and view the condition as either a physical ailment or disability.” Lastly, deafness can affect medically. Knowing that all disabilities should be treated and be taken seriously and it shows that being deaf was the bottom of the chain and it was frequently ignored, but paradoxically they wanted it treated “ Deaf people who subscribe to the medical model of deafness may seek the assistance of hearing aids or undergo invasive surgeries designed to restore their