A Kentucky college student is getting crafty when it comes to helping the hearing-impaired community through the coronavirus. Ashley Lawrence, 21, is studying education for…
A Kentucky college student is getting crafty when it comes to helping the hearing-impaired community through the coronavirus.
“[These are] for anyone who uses speech reading, lip reading, anybody like that, and people who are profoundly deaf who use ASL as their primary mode of communication,” she told NBC affiliateGoFundMe page The Eastern Kentucky University student and her mother have been working together on the project, making their first two or three sets at home out of bed sheets and plastic fabric.They’re also modifying the masks further to go around the head or neck for people with cochlear implants and hearing aids who are unable to wrap them around their ears.
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