An audiologist discovered that her patients were really struggling to hear during curbside treatments because of street noise and the face coverings of her staff, so she started handing out masks that have a clear portion over the mouth
During curbside treatments, Dr. Sheri Mello, an audiologist in Raleigh, North Carolina, discovered that her patients were really struggling to hear because of street noise and the face coverings of her staff. "The covered masks cut down the volume level by 10 decibels," Mello told CNN."And that's a lot. You're cutting a quarter of the volume.
Once you add face coverings, it makes communication feel impossible. "Just for anybody, not just the hearing impaired, you have to see emotion, you have to see facial expressions," she said."And with these covered masks, it kind of takes away all of that facial expression that comes with communicating."After handing them out for free, a lot of Mello's patients are now using the masks with loved ones. The loved one wears the clear mask so the patient can read the lips.
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