The person is oral deaf. He wears a hearing aid but doesn’t talk on the phone. The person does not use or intend to use a special telephone for the deaf. She can’t even get away from work to spend two or three hours sitting while she waits to be seen live and in color….

Those who don’t communicate, trump themselves, as the late Chacrinha used to say. But deaf people have a certain panic about meeting new people – and hearing people. I even think that psychiatry could name a new phobia in our case. Well, at least I’ m not ashamed to say that new people scare me…

If there’s one thing that gets me down, it’s a speech therapist who wants to get rid of the patient quickly. The sad truth is that we are used to dealing with unethical health professionals on a daily basis. A good example of this is making an appointment for 2 p.m., working hard to get…

In October, I was in São Paulo. I had the opportunity to do some auditory training sessions with speech therapist Mariana Guedes. I’d never done this before and I went to the office feeling very negative. I said hello to Mariana, saying“I bet I won’t hear anything, but let’s try“. I don’t know about you,…