Stephanie Beacham Quotes

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

I didn't wake up one day and just couldn't hear. I woke up one day and realized I was having difficulty, and that I had overcompensated by lip reading, so that I didn't really understand how bad it was.

I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.

I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

In 1967, I found out I was losing my hearing. I went 10 years without any help. I had otosclerosis - hardening of the bone in the middle of the ear.

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that.

The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.

I have selective hearing.

Hearing loss has not affected my vocal range. I can still pitch perfectly, but without the hearing aids, I don't hear the intricate high parts of the actual spectrum.