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Thesis: Medical Model of Disability Antithesis: Social Model of Disability Synthesis: Integrated Model of Disability

"You don't sound deaf." "You don't need captions", "Your parents are deaf? Oh I am so sorry." "I am so GLAD that my parents are not deaf!" some of the horrible stuff I deal with it daily. Oh yeah, "Why can't all deaf people get cochlear implant?" I have cochlear implant and even that is not 100% perfect. I say this all the time, "Even man-made objects have flaws."

Sayhi alternative please

I think the best way for deaf people to relax is forest bathing . Don’t need to listen to. Just try to connect with nature , the waters . Be in their environment. By closing eyes and feel mother natures love . Best thing I ever did was

Just subbed. I’m listening to your review now. I’d love to have you as a guest on my podcast.

I'm deaf and I manually caption my videos which is a lot of work. I find that even though the auto generated captions are not perfect, I gravitate towards it 95% of the time because they are easier to follow and I think they are actually accurate 95% of the time unlike what some say. A lot of people do not know how to caption properly and some people even disable the auto generated captions option in their videos because they still think the auto generated stuff is as bad as it was 10 years ago. I pay for RUclips premium and find it irritating that YouYube still censors certain words in the captions but not in the audio. If anyone knows of a trick to disable this censorship, I would really appreciate it, but here's a trick for any creator who wants to force their own captions to come up- while in YT Studio, in the video details section, scroll down to tags and type in: yt:cc=on

Thanks for this video! I also agree that more people need to put more effort into captions. I am a new youtuber, and I decided that it was super important for me to put accurate captions. It takes a LOT of time tbh 😭but making a video accessible (especially to people who are deaf, HoH, or have slow auditory processing) is worth it!! I'm not deaf or HoH, but sometimes my audio processing is a little slow, or the person in the video isn't speaking clearly so captions always come in handy :) Anyway, I came to this video, because in the video I'm preparing to publish tomorrow, I drop an F-bomb and I noticed the censoring.. I was debating whether to write it out or to put like an f*** or some variation, and ultimately decided to look into what would be best to do. SO! This video gave me the answer. No censor, it is 🥰

A good topic of conversation. My deafness has slowly been blooming from the third grade (40 years ago), and though others are more deaf than I am at my deaf coffee night, I am starting to call myself deaf. I still talk daily all the time, but as the years go by my frustration with communicating increases. If everyone signed, that would make my life easier, but that is not most of my world. While I cannot hear alarms, beeps, conversation in noisy places, I lip read as often as I can. I have many misunderstandings over the years, because even though I tell others I can't hear, people don't remember and think I am being rude for not answering. I like the idea of one term of 'deaf', myself. I think for now, my main focus is seeing it as a blessing, not a loss. I have ASL, I have friends, and might have found a church with a interpreter. Closed captiioning is must. Many things to still be grateful for.

Thank you. I appreciate your sharing. Maybe the perception of the word 'deaf is what needs to be looked at. :) It feels like we have a long way to go with this conversation. I prefer HOH as my medical label, but that does not necessarily equal my identity which is a spiritual process. AND..how someone functions or expresses should not determine ones internal idea. Just some thoughts... :)

Thankyou so much! Answered my questions I needed to write a character! Trying to be as respectful and careful about how I write and go about her Disability:)) This was Super helpful ^^!!

Your video was shared with my Deaf Culture class, and I'm really glad you made it! I identify as culturally Deaf (Hard of Hearing born), but only in the last 4 months after completing American Sign Language levels 1 & 2. Grew up with our family not knowing I was HoH and used self-coping strategies. Even did speech therapy (thought I had a lisp - that should have been a clue, lol). Yet in one ear I have mild-to-profound hearing loss in wide range of frequencies; yet my other ear is more mild-moderate hearling loss but in more consistent frequencies. Hence they kinda try to compensate for each side. So struggled with the internal "maybe I hear well enough", and it is better with hearing aids, but definitely not "perfect". I often get the comment "You don't sound 'deaf'". That's made me feel like I have to use "Culturally Deaf" inside my Deaf community, and "HoH" outside of it in order to not confuse people. I almost wish it was all just "Deaf".

Thank you! I am going to play this for my employees at a staff meeting.

You are fortunate you have a regular viewing of movies with subtitles. I have to travel north to the next town and hunt them down. They are rare and it isn't easy to find them. A local movie theater said they didn't show them because the hearing people complained even though it was advertised as a captioned movie. Perhaps I need to go ask the new management and see if procedures have changed.

Thank you for your words of encouragement. I needed them ❤

Pls how is it effective if u l want to use it on fb messenger

😅 I'm not deaf, but I find when someone spells out a word to me, I don't understand it - I might need it repeated & I need to form the word in my head to make it make sense! Perhaps it's across the board with everyone 🤔

There's nothing wrong with learning a language for fun, learning should be fun. But that's just my opinion.

SO often! I hate 'nevermind' when just easy to repeat! I am leaving the school I teach at (only deaf in school) because I didn't have an interpreter (even after requests and reminders) for three meetings! The last was to help with accrediting the school! I cried because I felt not important enough and because I was so frustrated being treated this way. I'm so sad because I love my students but I can't continue to be treated this way.

Why do we have to accommodate the hearing world? Why doesn't the hearing world try to see the world from the deaf/hoh, and accommodate us? It would be nice to have a place like Martha's Vineyard were the deaf and hearing can communicate with each other. It would be nice if the hearing world would be more accommodating to people with invisible disabilities, but it's 2024 and it's sad that more normal people aren't more accommodating to people with invisible disabilities. Normal people need to imagine that they are the one with the invisible disability, like they are deaf. And try to respect that person and try to accommodate them. Who know for one day you could be the deaf one from an accident or sickness that made you deaf.

Ahmed, I cant express enough how impressed I was with your videos. I founf you via a search for captions vs. subtitles, 45mins later i am still clicking on your various videos, they are a great mix of education, entertainment, and your personal story. I noticed the last video was 2yrs ago, currently 2024, but If you moved to a different channel or perhaps stopped, I hopes its not the latter, as I feel the world needs people like you. I think you have the "it factor" and hope to see more from you. Best wishes where ever you may be. and OFC, Many thanks. 🙏🙏✌

Thank you for the nice video! I'd like to ask your opinion about something. So, I'd like to learn a sign language. The reason is because I like learning languages so I can communicate with people in their own language, plus that, even though most of the people can communicate in English those days, I think you get closer to a culture when you learn the language of the country. My problem is the following. Initially I come from Greece, I speak English and I believe my English is good but not perfect and but last seven and a half years I live in Germany. I've learned German, still learning actually, to a point where I can communicate to a good level but I am not very fluent. What sign language should I learn or at least start with? Obviously Greek would be "easier" since I know the language well, but I don't live there, apart from the two weeks that we visit in the Summer , it wouldn't be useful. English would be also OK but I don't live in England either. I mean obviously it would make more sense to learn the German sign language, (DGS) if I am not mistaken, but is that even possible since I don't speak the language very well?

Good day! I know of a specific situation where sign language can be used in a very unique way. Maybe you want to know.

I’m a writer and I wanted to include a deaf character in a short story I’m writing and something I’m struggling with is representing the experience of using a hearing aid. So I wanted to ask what you might think I should include to make it an accurate representation. This video is very cool so thank you so much :)

The music is annoying as the mic is low

Considering what Helen Keller said, “Deafness was her worst handicap”. We should listen to Ms. Keller. I am severely / profoundly deaf and I can say living in a hearing world having to learn to talk and read lips to just fit in is difficult. When a hearing person has a clogged ear for a short time and they can’t hear like before, they turn into frustrating angry people. Deafness is the silent handicap.

Bro. check your video. It's muted at 9:25 to 9:44.

auto captions are super common nowadays 😭 EVERY short video has it, and even some long-form or normal videos on youtube have IMBEDDED auto captions! added in editing! why?! it irritates me so much. and obviously, it’s the one to four words at a time with barely any punctuation. it irritates me so much, and im not even hard of hearing! (i forgot to add that the captions are always awkwardly placed too)

I don’t know any deaf people, at all. I don’t even know people that know deaf people, but since I don’t know where I’ll be living by the end of the year, I’m learning ASL since there is a possibility that I will be going to the US. Being completely transparent, I saw an anime about a deaf girl and it really touched me to the point of me wanting to learn some sign language to be able to communicate with someone deaf if I ever meet one. I know 5 spoken languages and I’ve always wanted to learn more so I find this opportunity very intriguing. My idea is to learn ASL and see where I go from there, maybe LSM since I am latin american and that’s the one most used back home (Again I haven’t met anyone deaf yet but still). As someone that likes learning about linguistics and so on I expect learning different sign languages might just be similar in the sense of finding similarities and differences between sign languages and making the later ones easier than the first ones. I mostly hope to have fun and meet some deaf people to practice along the way

Thanks for talking about this!

Yes! I have tinnitus and when it acts up I can't hear properly. To me, blanking out swearing in captions when it's perfectly audible for hearing folk is just plain ableism. We're all adults, don't treat hard of hearing or deaf people like children!

God bless you brother

Yes, it applies to me. I have a Solo Show on this very topic and the experience of Discrimination I have experienced from both worlds. I think this is a very deep and profound location. It's a prominent location. Thank you for bringing attention to it.

Would you recommend learning BSL (my country’s sign language) with a native Deaf teacher who isn’t from my area? There aren’t any sign language classes available in my area, so I want to learn online. I want to make sure Deaf people in my area can understand me, and I can understand them. Thank you.

For me sounds more clear and crisp at times …

hello Ahmed . I work abroad in an Arabic speaking country and studying to be a Nursing Assistant too. I really want to become a traveler volunteer NA and teaching assistant to the deaf community. and i wanted to study the sign language in English first while im working and studying. could you pls recommend a good online website that i can do it correctly. Thank you

Im in Ireland and i realy wanted to learn sign language there its just a girl who i see regular and just speaking to her , her father said shes ignored, he is so pleased when i interact with her that has me wanting to learn , its not the only reason i think it would be wonderfull . So what sign language do u recomend ? American , british or Irsh or some other sign language .

Excellent video! I'm not sure what the difference would be but I'm assuming there is some definite frequency in a hearing test that would say, "...if you can hear above this frequency you are hard of hearing. If you can't hear above a certain frequency then you are deaf."

I'm living on the west coast of Canada and labelled Hard of Hearing. I"m more comfortable with "late deafened" because I'm over 70. I'm learning ASL and love it! At the moment I have more hearing friends than deaf/HoH friends but I'm okay with that. But after my hearing test I've struggled to find my footing with life. I definitely feel not part of the hearing world, nor part of the deaf world. I very much appreciate you Ahmed for dealing with this subject. (I'm afraid that there are many, many more people like me...)

So informative honestly. I personally go with the social model because indeed the society is the one creating barriers to our impairments.

Thanks very much , Ahmed, im doing a SEND course online now & we have to cover this.

It was very easy ways of explaining tgamk you ahmed sir

Great video! One small note about eye contact: I (and other autistic people I know) tend to avoid direct two-sided eye contact. It comes with a huge amount of emotional information and quickly distracts from what the person is saying/what we are trying to say. For us, it's more a sign that the person is actively listening when they're looking away, because that means they're focusing on what they're hearing, and it's not a sign of nervousness or deception ☺️ (it's actually very common for the speaker to look away and the listener to look at the speaker's face, and to switch when the roles switch)

Thank you for sharing your experiences! I'm not Deaf, but it sounds very relatable to other kinds of discrimination/ableism I experience, and it sounds very frustrating. I never heard the word "audism" before, but I'll definitely use it from now on!

I'm looking to learn sign language because me and my partner are both autistic, which for us means that we go nonverbal sometimes and are unable to speak. (Our current solution is very impractical because we have no easy or healthy way to communicate when that's the case.) Thank you for your input, I was looking for exactly this - an informed opinion of someone who actually knows their stuff. I hadn't considered getting in touch with the local Deaf community yet, but that might actually be a wonderful opportunity to learn and get to know a new culture!

It shows that you put a lot of thought into this video. Awesome!

Thank you for sharing ,first ,sign language is not international ,but one borrow another for example Ethiopian sign language and American almost the same may be Ethiopian sign language 65 % from American Sign Language .i do ASL and Ethiopian sign language I had been working with Deaf for many years .

This was so incredibly helpful and informative. I'm an undergraduate student interested in going into audiology and am doing a presentation on various issues in audiology, specifically in relation to the Deaf community as well as just general accessibility. I'm honestly shocked that some of this even has to be addressed- like the phone calling for appointments (phone calls as the only option for appointments in general is poorly though out- given that there are people who can't use a phone for various reasons: including being deaf or hard of hearing, having trouble speaking, general anxiety related to phone calls, or other things that make communicating via phone a poor option (I personally am autistic and have speech processing issues, so using phones gives me migraines and I struggle to understand what is being said.) The lack of accessibility is hard to believe: honestly the fact that your video non-autogenerated captions was a surprise because so many videos I look at relating to audiology DONT. Going into audiology, I really want to know what current issues and barriers exist between the doctors and the clients, so we can work to improve upon those issues and allow for more open communication so clients can get whatever they need out of the appointment. Audiologists often seem to dominate the conversation despite they fact that they should be there to listen and assist in giving their client whatever tools and information they need, they should be informing them and act as an unbiased resource- rather than pushing any specific therapy, technology, or life upon them. And this domination of the conversation seems to in talking about issues in audiology: most of the resources I find on this topic are by audiologists, most of them hearing, rather than by clients. So hearing this side of the story from someone who is personally impacted by the barriers in place at audiology clinics is so illuminating- and really helps be understand what to keep an eye out for in the future so such negative experiences can be lessened.

Please don't use Rev as a captioning service. Their captioners are unbelievably unqualified. At least use Rev Pro if you do. 3Play Media is better always, but there's really no good web accessability vendor. VITAC still does their stupid "spaces in brackets" thing, and when you use their centered pop-on service, they don't identify speakers properly. NCI, the National Captioning Institute, is garbage, but not as garbage--their problem being that they still use uppercase captions in 2023--and also made IDs uppercase too for no good reason.

Hi Ahmed, my wife lost her hearing 1yrs and some months, we bought BTE hearing aid based on audiologycal test, after fiting she could only hear the sound or eco she can't get the actual communication, and the specialist said she should continue use it that with time it will be clear over one month no improvement.

My husband wears hearing aids but he does it because he is hard of hearing and doesn't know sign language except what he sees me do, and I have hearing loss in my left ear due to domestic abuse years before I met my husband. But I have a hearing aid I just haven't worn it enough to get used to it. It's not from a dr. It is from a company on a commercial and my dog chewed the other one. But it's hard to get used to it.