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This sets up an experiential comparison between the loss of hearing and the loss of vision to show both how they were inter-related through the reliance of many hard of hearing people on vision to conduct communications. This is explored in relation to both the use of lip-reading, often taught by women, and correspondence networks between deaf people, also characteristically suiting the needs of isolated hard of hearing women.
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Gooday, G., Sayer, K. (2017). Communicating with Hearing Loss. In: Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830–1930. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40686-6_4
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