Overcoming the mask

By News Staff on Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Tips for communicating through COVID-19
  • Everyday tasks, such as asking a question or talking to someone, can be frustrating due to masks.
    Everyday tasks, such as asking a question or talking to someone, can be frustrating due to masks.
  • Clear masks provide a visual difference, helping with lip reading and facial expressions.
    Clear masks provide a visual difference, helping with lip reading and facial expressions.
    It can be challenging to communicate through masks, six feet of social distance, physical barriers and other factors due to COVID-19 that have changed daily life. For people with hearing loss, this is an especially challenging time. In a telling sign of increased hearing difficulty, usage of online hearing tests increased 500 percent since the pandemic began. "With COVID-19 and ma...

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