Since time immemorial, people have referred to the eyes as windows to the soul, yet blind and deaf Helen Keller said “Hearing is the deepest, most philosophical sense man possesses.”
For centuries, sight impaired people have worn glasses without being labeled mentally defective. Meanwhile, those with hearing impairment have suffered enormous prejudice. Labeled as old”, “stupid”, “mentally ill”, or “selective listeners”, many hearing impaired people live in denial, or refuse to wear hearing aids because they are afraid of being branded.
For decades, quality eye glasses and contact lenses have been purchased for around 100 dollars but until recently, hearing aids were so expensive that only the wealthy could afford high quality corrective instruments.
Year upon year, eye glasses are fashionably designed in various shapes and colors to enhance physically attractiveness. Conversely, hearing aids are designed to be discreet, and manufactured in skin tones because they are deemed unsightly.
Every day, thousands of people submit their prescriptions for eye glasses and contacts lenses online. Orders...