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I think they're just really attuned to speech but lack the experience and education to understand it's related to deafness/speech disorders. I went to see a specialist at Tufts for my bite. This was prior to all the surgery.  He recommended that I get surgery to correct my bite or it'd get worse. The whole time he's asking about my speech and whether I studied diction. I said I had with a wonderful woman in Cambridge. He told me I needed to go back to see her....urgently need to work on my speech. I said I was planning on it. Afterwards I'm thinking....this is Tufts, all the students are foreign so I'm always "what? sorry? what?" Most people can't understand them....why was he going on and on about speech? This man was the top in the country for jaw problems...at no time did he think my speech could be deafness related and not about issues with my jaw. No doubt, the man was educated, attuned to speech, but at no time did he consider another primary cause of speech disorders is deafness.


A classmate at college was studying audiology and asked if she could use me in her class to take a hearing test. I said fine and showed up, met the teacher. She must have asked about my hearing and I told her, German Measles, HOH, she answered "I know, it's obvious, but I wouldn't be much of a doctor if I didn't." This was her line of work, unlike the specialist at Tufts so she understood what she was hearing. Not everyone does and it's the very last thing anyone thinks of, believe it or not.


Laura


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