/ http://www.slideshare.net/images/logo.gif / 際際滷Share feed for 際際滷shows by User: JoeDashiell https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/profile-photo-JoeDashiell-48x48.jpg?cb=1522989500 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