Deafness and driving licenses? Part 1

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Deafness and driving licenses? Part 1 (Teacher: Michael)

Deaf not their share of sympathy and often not fully understood. This is particularly of deaf drivers. It is often suggested that the hard of hearing as good or as safe drivers as others. Yet research carried in New Zealand into the causes of more than 30,000 accidents showed that deafness not regarded as responsible in a single incident.

In the United States, almost all licensing officers consider deaf drivers to quite as safe - indeed safer - than average. There is a for this. These drivers so aware of their disability, and of the prejudices against them, that they more than average care when driving. They concentrate more on the . Indeed, one insurance company revealed that although eight per cent of policy-holders some sort of claim each year, only between three and four per cent of claims by with defective hearing.

There , of , varying degrees of deafness. There is the deafness of the lad who never hears his asking him to something. And at the other end of the scale there is the so-called stone-deaf patient. If a driver some degree of deafness and wears a hearing-aid, the question is often whether, if he wears it during his driving test, he ought never to drive without it. Some countries insist on this, but I it is unreasonable.

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