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Helen keller said that deafness was harder to live with than blindness. Blindness cuts you off from the visual world but deafness cuts you off from people which is a lot harder to live with. If you ask a typical person most would say they would rather be deaf than blind. We have a range of about 20 . If you have a hole in the ear drum, it will leak properties will not be the same. Eustachian tube: balances pressure between the inner ear and outside world. Hearing thresholds of a person with hearing in the normal range. Most people (even those with hearing disorders) can www. notesolution. com hear an airplane taking off when in close proximity very loud sound. An example of a normal audiogram (graph 1) and one of a person who has a hearing impairment (graph 2) the person can hear everything that is below the graph.
