CTV: Understanding health info a challenge for those born deaf

Release Date: October 23, 2011 This content is archived.

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A story on CTV interviews Lance Rintamaki, a health communication researcher, for a story about the difficulties Canadians born deaf have communicating with medical providers and obtaining health information over the Internet. "You often come across many of the same issues with English as a second language in the deaf population that you are likely to come across in the hearing population who are learning English," he said.

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