| Show deaf people lack care given other handicapped dr augustus J hambrook member of the new york state commission on the hard of hearing and deaf says efforts to improve the c condition ondi tion of the deaf encounter a great obstacle because there is is no popular instinctive sympathy for them we all help the cripple across the street the physician said the blind man groping his way finds er hand outstretched to protect him but the person whose hearing is impaired he is just regarded as a nuisance hambrook said many advances have been made in early discovery of children suffering from hearing defects he said at least 2 per cent of the school population has some degree of hearing impairment it if the public knew how much improvement pro can be produced by education in lip reading as well as by scientific advances in medical knowledge of the ear the problem of helping these citizens would not be so difficult hambrook said popular apathy prevents many people from knowing that they can get help from the means which are now at hand yet statistics show that the problem of the hard of hearing involves 4 per cent of the population |
