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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
These are simple things like that, that you know. Body language also is important. The deaf will watch the body language and perhaps understand pretty much of what's going on.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Lemme show you a little something like this that happens between a deaf man and a hearing man at a bus stop.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
How they respond to each other. Before I go ahead, first I will have my people come up here and let you take a good look at them.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
This is Steve Jones, Dick Moore, and Libby Hatway.[Libby Hathaway]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Can you people tell me which one of these is hearing?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I have a vote here. Who's been here before? This one? What about this one, is she hearing?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We've got some various, uh, choices here. How can you tell? There's no way you could tell. Which one is hearing and which one is deaf.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
It's a very invisible thing, a hearing loss. But to help you a little bit, here's the hearing one. I'm deaf, from a deaf home, where my mother's deaf, my father is hearing.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
He is deaf, from a deaf home. Where both parents are deaf, and grandparents are both deaf, and his 4 sisters, 4 generations of deafness.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Libby is also from a deaf family, and I think there's been 3, 3 generations of uh deafness. Parents and grandparents.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I'd like to show you the bus stop. You'll be the deaf man waiting for the bus coming in this direction. Let's see what happens.