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Innovators Design Hybrid Masks To Aid People With Impaired Hearing03:48
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August 04, 2020

Face masks pose problems for people who have impaired hearing, but there are ways to make it easier to communicate with people with hearing loss.

One work-in-progress is a hybrid mask — part shield, part mask that makes it easier to read a speaker's lips.
Chuck Quirmbach of WUWM reports.

This segment aired on August 4, 2020.

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