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How Did Hearing Aid Companies Work With Deaf People?
The early 20s was a time of 'quackish' electricity and hearing aids. The idea that wearing a hearing aid is a deaf person's central responsibility dominated advertising for most of the 20th century. Some of your more recent research examines how hearing aid companies are tried to form relationships with deaf and hard of hearing folks via salespeople.
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