'Not being able to hear is hard enough. Now, lip reading is hard, too,' Mary Beth Pagnella, who has lived with profound hearing loss most of her life, told USA TODAY.
providing coronavirus updates in ASL. The show's host, Joshua Castille, a deaf performance artist, also shares tips on things like working on your mental health during the crisis.
"I think the main thing to remember is that we don't all get information the same way," Klarman said."We don't have access to language through spoken English, and so the more that we can do to support diversity within our community, the better off we'll all be." "I can't sew, but I'm so willing to learn that one of my friends is going to loan a sewing machine to me," Pagnella said.For Cook, he's reaching out to the fashion studies department at Columbia College Chicago to have students make masks for his students, or possibly to create a class for the fall semester.
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