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,…