Simplify communication skills for hearing-impaired people in the workplace

Meetings, conversations with colleagues, presentations - Workdays involve a lot of communication and require a lot of effort to keep the operations running.

For hearing-impaired professionals, keeping up with organizational processes and tasks and fulfilling their responsibilities can be challenging.

Here are some practical tips and hints on how to help hearing impaired individuals work better at work.

Disclose your hearing impairment to colleagues
No matter how tempting it is to maintain disability, or how embarrassing it is, it is important that your colleagues know your hearing impairments in order to communicate and work more easily in the workplace.

Here's what you can do to get people to know the details.

• Don't continue to say "I am a blind man". Instead, explain the nature of your particular situation when making a statement that "I can't hear people on the phone or hear the noise in a noisy or crowded background".


• Tell your colleagues how best to communicate with you. For example, you can tell them to be a bit louder, speak slower, use appropriate visual cues and keep a reasonable distance from you to make sure their faces are well lit.


• Ask them to rewrite rather than repeat what you have encountered and write down key information such as date, time, address, phone number, name and amount.


• If your side is more affected than the other, tell your colleagues that this is a good aspect of you.


• If you use any assistive hearing device, let people know if you are using a hearing aid or a presentation. Also, explain how your dedicated device works.

Tips for normal hearing staff at the workplace
Your organization may include employees and colleagues who have never worked with hearing-impaired colleagues before. Not only do all your universities need to understand your health, but they also know how to deal with hearing impairments in the workplace and help improve their efficiency.

Some key recommendations include:

• Use your body language and facial expressions effectively. Avoid facing up when talking or listening.


• Keep your speech clear and don't exaggerate your lips and mouth movements as it may interfere with the speech reading of the affected person.


• In addition to the "yes" or "no" questions, add an open question to your transition to determine if the hearing impaired understands you.


• Speak at normal speed or slower than usual if needed.


• Talk to the people you know and learn how to best adjust the speed and volume of your presentation.


• When communicating with the hearing impaired, pause from time to time to let them catch up and actively understand.

in conclusion

Some people with hearing impairments will naturally keep the disability confidential. However, if your disability is left untreated, it will only worsen the situation and cause more problems in the future.

Follow these general recommendations and guidelines to ensure that hearing impaired people are more productive and productive.

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