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In this analysis I will begin by giving a description of the resource centers that help me prepare for this experimental journey. I will detail my occurrence of having a hearing impairment for approximately six hours; I will entail every activity with its sentiments outlining my drawback having the disability. I will continue by describing a little bit about hearing impairment. I will have various sources throughout the illustrative paper. I will conclude this paper with a reflection of this experience.

When I first learned about this experimentation, I looked into intervention programs for people with hearing disabilities in Montrйal. The first one I researched was CHIP [Communicaid for Hearing Impaired Persons]. It is a non-profit organization that has a mission towards helping people with hearing impairment. They promote programs similar to HEAR [Hearing Education for Aural Rehabilitation] to help teach people with hearing disability to be successful within their community and in their daily lives. They also have support groups for the people with the impairments as well as their families. CHIP's Technical Aids and Resource Centre, also offers explanations on assistive listening devices, American Sign Language, guides people with hearing impairments on receiving government services and impairment grants. An additional resource center I discovered was Raymond-Dewar Institute. It's very similar to CHIP, but leans more towards the French community. Raymond-Dewar Institute helps people who have a hearing impairment and minimum twenty-one years of age. Most of their clients have been diagnosed with an either a lasting conductive hearing loss or sensor-neural. This milieu offers a late-deafened support group, cochlear implant workshops; it also submits a comprehensive range of French programs which include courses such as LSQ, [Quebec sign language]. In essence CHIP, first and foremost serves the Anglophones of Montrйal and Raymond-Dewar Institute serves the Francophone of Montrйal.

Hearing-impairment later in life may possibly be the consequence of many different reasons; diseases such as Meningitis, Mumps, of even AIDS might cause deafness. There are many ways of categorize hearing loss. One category is conductive hearing loss might be the outcome of when sound waves have difficulty getting transmitted from the air outside the ear to the tiny hair cells in the cochlea, which is the inside of the ear, where the sound waves are transmitted as nerve impulses. This type of hearing loss is frequently found in a swimmer's ear. After the sound waves passes through the ear canal it may cause the eardrum [Tympanic Membrane] to throb. These quivering sensations are transmitted through the three small ear bones of the middle ear space and it may cause movement in the liquefied part of the ear that is located in the inner part of the ear. The middle ear holds air that is refilled through the Eustachian tube each time a person swallows. A higher respiratory virus may cause the Eustachian tube to cause trouble in resulting, liquid as an alternative of air. This fluid moistens the useful transmission of sound through the ear bones resulting in a mild or even judicious hearing loss. Other conductive hearing loss may include Otoe-sclerosis a type of bone disease that may lead in results in decreased movement of the bone and unproductive transmission of sound waves into the inner ear or skin sores that are related to Eustachian tube failure middle ear birth defects that result in malformed ear bones.

A second category may be Sensor-neural hearing loss. A universal cause of sensor-neural hearing loss is exposure to loud noises. This may take place when the hair cells in the cochlea are injured then are unsuccessful to transform vibrations of the inner ear liquids into electrical indications that are transmitted to the brain. Hereditary irregularities of the inner ear may cause hearing loss from birth or a progressive hearing loss later in life. The greater parts of individuals with inherited hearing loss have no other malformations. There is a widespread rule, if ears ring after a noisy event such as a concert, the sound may have injured the inner ears. Ear plugs may save from harm the individual from inner ear damage in most situations. As people get older they may begin hearing loss. Elder people, who lose their hearing, usually are people who rendered in our industrialized society, were exposed to noise and now may pay the consequences to long-standing effects and hearing loss. Elderly people in primordial societies do not show the same symptoms and degree of hearing loss as is seen in industrialized Western World countries. Certain individuals have a hereditary tendency for a progressive hearing loss as they get older. There are several other conditions that also may cause hearing loss at a later stage of life, for instance Meniere's disease, unexpected sensor-neural hearing loss, and head injuries can cause sensor-neural hearing loss. Sensor-neural hearing loss can also result from diseases that affect the auditory nerve that connects the hair cells to the brain. An exemplar would be the auditory neuronal, which is a benign tumor of the auditory nerve that gradually develops in a one-sided hearing loss. Usually this condition is correlated with ringing of the ear. Many cases of sensor-neural hearing loss may be treated with hearing aids. People that have a great amount of hearing loss in which a hearing aid is not providing sufficient help may gain more from a cochlear implant.

My six hours was in these segments: The first twenty minutes instant migraine; followed by a thirty minute nap. The next hour I walked with a friend to the tennis court and played tennis for forty minutes, and returned home. In the next hour I showered, watched television and tried to communicate with my youngest son. In the fourth hour I decided to go get some groceries, and I also prepared a mouth-watering late lunch. In the last hour and a half, I spent most part of it in a car, as my friend was driving me up north to the Lauretians we stopped for ice cream on our way up north. By the time we reached my friend's families cottage place, my six hours had just surpassed by approximately fifteen minutes.

To prepare myself for this journey, I had researched about impairments. I realized in practicing in this experiment that there is a huge amount of difference between theory and practice. To disable my hearing I used a pair of airplane safety plugs, and headphones on top of the plugs. First I felt blood rushing through my brain, within the first fifteen or twenty minutes. I cannot really express in words, but it was like someone had placed me upside down for an enormous amount of time and blood had rushed to my brain. I immediately felt forced to take two extra strong Advils so I could have proceeded with the activity. After taking