The case study of Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
A few weeks ago, I was roaming around YouTube and I came across this woman with an unusual and interesting condition that cough my attention. When we were told to choose a subject to talk about I immediately decided to search about her. Jessica is a 28-year-old TV presenter and Youtuber. Still, she is deaf and lives with chronic diseases and disabilities and often makes videos about her lifestyle.
Jessica wasn’t born deaf, she had difficulties hearing as a child and over time her condition has gotten worse. When she moved to university that’s when she realized she couldn’t here practically anything and needed help.AXxqaxa
At this moment, she can’t tell how her voice sounds like but has a vague idea since she was able to hear in the past. Jessica claims being deaf helps her get the things she needs as a disabled person but it can get uncomfortable because she doesn’t sound like a deaf person “should” sound, so people tend to be mistaken. She practices speaking and makes sure to say all the words very preciselXAawqy and that’s a reason for people to not realize she can’t hear.
People have the tendency to lean in in her ear while talking to her and she has to push them away so she can lip read.
She does use hearing aids to be able to slightly distinguish human voices from environment noises. Without it, she just listens to a blank sound. xQA
Jessica focusses mSAQainly on lip reading but facial expressions and body language do have a huge impact on her into keeping and being able to understand a conversatiSQon. Has we have seen in class; non-verbal language occupies a 55% part in communicating meanwhile words only take 7% and the sounds 38%, thus a major and important part.
The youtuber belieSQAves her conditions make her special and unique and it shouldn’t be a reason to be embarrassed but embraced instead.
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