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Adjustment To Deafness:
Attitude

• Adjustment to Deafness
• Attitude
• Communication
• Project your Communication
• Establish Relationship
• Integration in Society
• Advise to Parents
• Information Available

1. Respect the person's right (child or adult) to decide how he/she wants to communicate, be it through Sign Language, spoken language or in writing.

2. Accept the fact that the person lives in a visual world where signs (or Sign Language), facial expressions, body language, visual materials and light make the difference.

3. Respect the person as a human being like yourself with his/her own opinions, feelings, dreams, talents, ambitions and human rights.

4. Never assume that the person knows what you have heard or understood what has been said.

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