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IO Keele 5:5“ King City. Ontario 0 12!. (416!833-S311 . 832-1520 More Ihan L5 million (‘anadians suffer from impaired hearing, 550.000 of them in this Province. Some 8.000 Ontarians are classified as deaf. An invisible handicap. deafness or impaired hearing is frequently "Most persons. when they think of barrier free design. think about ac- cess of physically han- dicapped individuals to public and private buildings, However. deaf and blind persons are constantly frustrated by the barriers which our environment presents to them in the area of communication. ‘In the hierarchy of disabling conditions blindness is relatively privileged, and deafness is very under- privileged, Deafness is isolating and socially destructive in a way that blindness is not because the problems of com- munication are greater.‘ ,‘ Helen Keller once wrote ,_, and who should know better ~ that between blindness and deafness the Worst by far is deafness for it severs one from direct and easy contact with others. By ALF STONG MIA-York Centre In December of last year. the Ministry of Community and Social Services issued a series of Guidelines on Designing for Hearing Handicapped Persons. which began wilh the following Preamble: Consider the people who can’t hear you @lze 36m 61$... front of the fire. Delz'ghtfulfoods prepared to your order. Complete menu $7.50, children under 12 for $5.50. ngegfigimmm For an evening’s enjoyment, Tuesday to Saturday. Featuring a casual concept in dining, with the popular Kelley Stewart at the piano . . . please callfor reservations, it's always nice to know when company 25 coming -x- The Hunt Club is available b for all types of socz'alfunctz'ons. (Sma/aggmfl. A complete 3 course Roast Beef Dinner served with all the trimmings, plus our own home-made breads at a very reasonable $15.00 per person, children under 12 servedfor $9.50. WITHIN 3‘} NUMBERS wen, SEPT. 1939 CONSOLATION JACKPOT ___i500.00 MUST GO :40 pm. Earlybirds EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT THORNHILLCOMMUNITY CENTRE WOODBINE AVE. H MILE N. OF HWY 7) BUTTONVILLE GOLF 8- COUNTRY CLUB JACKPOT $1,000.00 Free parking at [GA Parking Lot after 3;) _Â¥ ' JghnASt. and Bayview Ave., Thornhill THORNHILL LIONS now OPEN YEAR noumS For The finest Wedding Reception In The North End To View our club please call Bob Weir at 297â€"1 71 1. New expanded facilities. Available for private parties company banquets, golf tournaments etc BOOK YOUR CHRISTMAS PARTIES NOW! To overcome the communication gap, people with impaired hearing use a wide variety of communication modes. including sign language and finger spelling. reading and writing. mime and gesture. speech and lipreading. and-or a combination of several of In other cases. the amplification of unâ€" wanted background noise negates the un- derstanding of close-up sounds. Of course. a number of devices have been developed [0 assist deaf people to communicate. However. amplification can accomplish only so much. For some people. the threshold of hearing awareness is close to the threshold of actual pain caused by amplification. Certainly. it's annoying to be asked to repeat something one has said, but imagine the frusnation of the hearing- impaired people who are faced with a continuous battle to understand what is being said. what is going on around them ln fact. il frequently arouses actual im- patience with a person's inability to understand quickly. Moreover. it lends not to evoke the same im- mediate sympathy as other more obvious disabilities. neither recognized nor acknowledged. AVAIlABLE RESERVATIONS aw WW6 8:00 pm. Regular Games There is also a bone conduction receiver. a watch case receiver ttiny apparatus enabling a third person with normal hearing to listen in and repeal the incoming message so that a deaf person can lipread and participate): and a tele- muff. for those with minimal hearing loss affected mainly by distracting room sdunds An amplifying handset is available. with a volume~control wheel. This may amplify up to 100 times. Telephones are a special problem. of course. for people who have impaired hearing. A number of signals have been devised to alert a person to the fact that someone is trying to reach him-hero There‘s no need to shoul‘ but be careful to face them and speak clearly. don't wave your hands in from of your mouth. and don't mumble. In this connection. if you are attempting to communicate with someone who has a hearing problem, don't place yourself between that person and a light source. but stand so that the light is to their back. All, ihese methods require patience and understanding from the rest of us: some require special knowledge and training. those methods Abarl from the question of public alarm systems. no one has yet evolved a Imagine yourself unable to use the in- tercom system to gain entry to an apartment building. orâ€" worse â€" unable to hear an emergency alarm. The building laws of many jurisdictions. in‘ cluding Ontario. don‘t take the deaf into con- sideration with respect to alarm systems. Tragic emphasis was given to the need for such con- sideration 13 years ago when a fire swept the YMCA in Chicago. Alarms were duly sounded and someone knocked on every door. warning people to make a rapid exit. Nine deaf hearing-aid people died. Anart from the miestinn modified obsolete Telex sets. and permits a deaf person to type words into a small. computer-like. sender-receiving set, with the words appearing in red on a small screen. Other suggestions made in the Ministry Guidelines are as follows: flashing lights for doorbells and alarm clocks: a light- tnicrophone system to alert deaf parents when their baby is crying; plug- in earphones in public theatres and concert halls: induction loops to permit partially deaf people to increase the volume received by a without causing discomfort to others. Think for a moment about the special problems which arise for someone with impaired hearing when travelling. because they are unable to hear departure an- nouncements or changes What about vital telephone calls to doctors or repairmen. or emergency calls to the police or hospital? Some public telephones, it has been suggested. should have clearly in dicaied receivers equipped with amplifiers 10427 YONGE STREET RICHMOND HILL RICHMOND HILL DATSUN LTD FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 884-8849 PHONE 773-5285 The Ministry guidelines make no pretence a! HIGHLAND DANCERS REGISTRATION FOR FALL CLASSES a small. computer-like. sender-receiving set, with the words appearing in red on a small screen. >â€" a teletypewriter device (TTY). which began with modified obsolete Telex sels. and permits a deaf person to type words into modestly priced device {or homes similar to the generally available smoke detector which would alert deaf people to imminent danger. A flickering light alarm is one possibility. and a sleeping deaf person is known to be awakened by such a light even it it's only a 25-watt bulb. One suggestion is for a unit similar to that which enables deaf people to talk on the the telephone Puplls prepared for competmon and Scottish Offlciai Board of Hrthand Dancmq Exammanom 11 179921de By Sylvia Heavener. B.A.T.D‘ Richmond Hill Legion The third man was charged with possession of articles stolen from the mails, when police found two mail sacks. which had been stolen. All three accused ap‘ peared in court Monday A second {man was charged with possession of a dangerous weapon. He was also charged with possession of a dangerous weapon. One man was charged with defacing currency. when police found a quantity of money stamped with the insignia of the Black Diamond Riders Motorcycle Club. York Regional Police executed a search warram .al a residence at 3483 Rutherford Road, Woodbridge on Sep' (ember 10 and three men were arrested. 3 arrested when police search house being complete. and the primary objective is to heighten awareness and encourage designers. social \xorkers in- d i v i d u a l s a n d organizations 10 consider the problems of the hearing-impaired people who want so much to live a “normal" life. Season Ticket . . . . Senior Citizens. . . . Students ......... General Admission OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO n )OOOOO vvvvwvvvv TRAVEL xi ADVENTURE SERIES 1979 1990 v QOOOOOOO00000000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 7:30 P.M. 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