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From this comes my last thought. When I was a child, glasses were most definitely NOT cool. But many people my age did not want glasses. The progression of glasses going from not-cool to super-trendy fills me with hope that one-day hearing aids, cochlear implants, and deafness in general, will be considered so normal no-one gives it a second thought.
As always, thanks for reading. I hope you liked this blog! The bottom line is that everyone with a disability is different, with varying challenges and needs, as well as abilities and attributes. Thus, we all should learn to listen with our ears instead of judging with our eyes. That is the reason we define invisible disability. We do not maintain a list of specific illnesses and diagnoses that are considered invisible disabilities.
Invisible disabilities are such symptoms as debilitating fatigue, pain, cognitive dysfunctions and mental disorders, as well as hearing and eyesight impairments and more. There are thousands of illnesses, disorders, diseases, dysfunctions, congenital disabilities, impairments, and injuries that can be debilitating. Therefore, all conditions that are debilitating are taken into consideration when we talk about invisible disabilities throughout the website.
However, our focus is not to attempt to provide a vast amount of information about thousands of specific conditions there are plenty of sites that do that. We are here to provide awareness, education, connection and support for everyone who lives with a debilitating condition. We do this by offering articles, pamphlets, booklets, resources, radio, video, seminars and more to give hope and compassion to all living with invisible disabilities as well as information for loved ones to better understand.
I want to publicly thank Katherine and the HLAA for allowing me to speak about such an important issue. Being the first recognized full duty Police officer with in the NYPD with a Hearing Disability provides me with the ability to demonstrate each and every day that we the hearing disabled community are not invisible, we are not incapable and we are not silent! Each day I put in my uniform and patrol the streets of Brooklyn is proof positive that we can be otherwise qualified to perform in the most demanding of work environments given fair access to reasonable accommodations.
We are invisible no more! Like Liked by 1 person. This was a wonderful presentation filled with unfortunate truths that need to be addressed. Each and every one of us needs to be an advocate for ourselves and collectively have our voices heard. If we do nothing, this will continue to happen. Thank you Mr. Carione, and thank you Katherine for spreading the word.
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