in a 1910 letter written to Dr. James Kerr Love Helen Keller wrote:
"The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus--the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man."
I experience the truth of this observation daily, and although my hearing loss is far from being declared truly deaf, I know and live this truth. Combined with hearing loss I suffer from tinnitus in the form of a constant roaring sound, making it nearly impossible to hear and understand conversation in a restaurant, an
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