So, my 20 year old daughter is Deaf and I’m teaching her how to drive. She is a good driver, very careful and meticulous. I know, intellectually, she is doing everything her sisters did, and often better, but it makes me very nervous. She’s a whiz at the parallel parking. I found an Army vet in Harrisburg, PA who gave her lessons as he likes to work with people who use different languages. He had confidence in her and taught her just by pointing (she is an ASL user). She had a good foundation with me, and he helped further that along. She should be getting her license this summer after she returns home from NTID. She is definitely ready.
I think it is possible for
the entire universe of the hearing-impaired plus their organizations, plus the non-profits that offer support for them, plus linkages from them all to the technology communities
to develop an instrument/device or a group of instruments/devices that hearing-impaired drivers could obtain for their vehicles that could (a) filter and identify sounds to the point of (b) identifying a “honk” and the direction it is coming from
then it would be up to the marketplace, and non-profit assistance where needed, to make the devices available
if that is not already in whole or in part being looked at
That's great to hear about your 20 year old daughter. Time flies by so quickly. Anyway, I'm glad to hear that she chose NTID. Especially with a co-op requirement which will prepare her well once she graduates from college. A lot of my friends went to NTID and loved it there.