My research question to help me study the economic principle is “In what ways have the Deaf adapted over the years?”
The article published in The Limping Chicken titled “Five recent technological advances that are changing deaf people’s lives” demonstrates this economic principle by showing several different technological advancements in the Deaf culture like, the Convo light app and, Google Glass.
First, the Convo light app is an app that flickers your houslights when you get an alert on your mobile phone. This is obviously helpful if you can’t hear the ringer go off. I has also been used as a doorbell and an alarm clock for the Deaf and hard of hearing.
Second, several new pieces of wearable tech like the Google glass have been beneficial to Deaf people. The Google Glass was designed to display things on the inside of the lense which would have allowed Deaf people to read some of the information being filtered in. Recently, Apple has started transcribing voicemails. It’s a little bit unreliable but it’s better than nothing.
Third, there are newer and better hearing aids becoming cheaper on the market. This is helpful because in the past, hearing aids and other hearing devices have been crazy expensive so they were not widely available. With more people having less restricted access to these devices, communication is becoming much easier.
In my next blog post I will research the question: Why is there a difference of opinion on CI in the Deaf community?
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