The man, Shawn, is a patient of mine from Tobago. He came into the clinic with his girlfriend, Hannah (who is hearing), right after I started. He spent 15 years in Oklahoma in a deaf school, where he received some great speech therapy, but is now back in T&T. They came over for a few days and spent a night at my place liming (listening to music, playing online, talking). They are both wonderful people, and it was interesting to speak with Shawn about his life. He shares some of the same thoughts as the two Deaf young men I work with...that his family didn't learn to sign and doesn't really bother with him. He told me that sometimes he doesn't feel like his family is really his family; his friends are his family.
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