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Kentucky College Student Makes Masks for Hearing Impaired
by Nate Church

Versailles, KY, student Ashley Lawrence has channeled quarantine time into making specialized masks for the deaf and hard of hearing.

“I just saw that people were making masks on Facebook for everyone to have instead of the throwaway masks, and I was like, what about the deaf and hard of hearing population?” explained the 21-year-old Kentuckian college senior. Lawrence is studying education for the hearing impaired and spotted the gap.

“I felt like there was a huge population that was being looked over,” Lawrence said. “We’re all panicking right now and so a lot of people are just not being thought of. So, I felt like it was very important that, even at a time like this, people need to have that communication.” She also explained why these masks — which sport a transparent plastic window in the front to enable lip-reading — are so important:

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/02/kentucky-college-student-makes-masks-for-hearing-impaired/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=b_inspired&utm_campaign=20200411#

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