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Jamie (K)
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| Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:51 am How can you hear without any natural hearing equipment? |
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| Quote: | | Napoleon Hill says that the teachers of his son insisted he learn sign language but Hill and his wife did not allow him to do so because they wanted him to live a normal life. |
For a Deaf person, using sign language would be part of a normal life. As I understand it, Blair was not really Deaf to start with.
Aside:
I remember a Canadian friend who, when we were working with a bunch of Deaf adults that I had known for some time, began clapping his hands togther behind their backs. I asked him why he was doing that and he replied that it was to get their attention. I told him that they all had no hearing capacity whatsoever, but he insisted that with good strong clapping, they would hear him and he would get their attention. I banged my foot on the wooden floor a couple of times and the whole group turned to face us. We then had a discussion in which the Deaf participants told my friend that banging one's foot on the floor was indeed one common and effective way of getting a Deaf person's attention. Sadly, even with this infomation, my friend continued with his sound experiments. He also said that he found the thumping on the floor a vulgar way to communicate.
Some people just can't accept other people's situations and ways of doing I guess. So, I'd read Blair Hill's story with caution. Even though his father was probably right in thinking and saying "Nature could not induce me to accept the reality of the situation", in some cases, one just has to accept that reality.
Note the similarity to the "thumping on the floor", here:
| Quote: | He clenched his teeth on the side of the case and began to learn the power of vibration and the significance of bone conduction. He grew to hear his father's voice when his lips touched the boy's mastoid bone.
blog.dreambuilders.com.au/journal/2007/2/26/outwit-mother-nature.html |
| Quote: | | Torsten asked: How can you hear without any natural hearing equipment? |
| Quote: | Blair was sent a hearing aid from a manufacturing company. As a recent model had not worked, he was skeptical but when he put the hearing aid on, he could hear! His lifelong desire to hear had become a reality and he quickly told others of his new “changed world”. Blair went on to work within the company that made his hearing aid, and began a new initiative of teaching adult deaf mutes to hear and talk, through the same method his father taught him, what is now known as bone conduction hearing.
learningsuccessnow.blogspot.com/2008/04/deaf-boy-hears.html |
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| Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:46 pm How can you hear without any natural hearing equipment? |
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You can read the story here:
scribd.com/doc/989684/Napoleon-Hill-Think-And-Grow-Rich |
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Molly
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| Fri Sep 05, 2008 17:59 pm How can you hear without any natural hearing equipment? |
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Perhaps they can feel the vibration that causes the sound. People who lack one sense always have the other senses more sensitive to the surroundings.
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| Fri Sep 05, 2008 18:27 pm How can you hear without any natural hearing equipment? |
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| Quote: | | Perhaps they can feel the vibration that causes the sound. |
Exactly.
| Quote: | | People who lack one sense always have the other senses more sensitive to the surroundings. |
I'm not sure that is always true. |
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Molly
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| Fri Sep 05, 2008 22:21 pm How can you hear without any natural hearing equipment? |
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| NinaZara wrote: | | Perhaps they can feel the vibration that causes the sound. People who lack one sense always have the other senses more sensitive to the surroundings. |
Also, this is why some deaf people can 'listen' to music by touching the radio/speakers/etc. They obviously can't hear all the notes, but they can at least get a feel for the beat and rhythm. Depending on their particular sensitivity, they may also be able so sense some tonal differences, since different tones of course vibrate with different frequencies.
Music is nothing more than vibrations in the air, and sound waves can be transferred through solids and liquids also.
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| Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:39 am How can you hear without any natural hearing equipment? |
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| What happened to Torsten? |
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