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Telehealth as a Deaf Person

In a recent post, I covered the challenges of accessing emergency care for Deaf people in AccesSOS - Helping Provide Level Access to 911 in USA. Shortly after, I came across this post by Meryl Evans, a professional speaker on disability and accessibility. Meryl talks about her experience of using Telehealth services as a Deaf Person.

Meryl uses her experience to look at the challenges of telehealth care, how people are overcoming some of the barriers and the opportunities for health care providers to make their services more inclusive.

I find these first-person accounts of how other experience services with other disabilities interesting and informative. They help me expand my thinking and ability to empathise with the challenges faced and where there are synergies with the challenges I face as a blind person.

A Medical Express article references a study led by Dr. Michael McKee. Published in the “Journal of Health Communication,” the study reveals deaf people are “seven more times more likely to have inadequate health literacy compared to people who can hear.” This needs to change.

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