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Hard of Hearing and Going to the Movies: How do you deal with it?
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Mar 29, 2020 | Replies (33)Comment receiving replies
arrowshooter, I know it's a long shot, but if you can band enough support, the theaters can get open captioned movies so that everyone sees captions without an auxiliary device. In Michigan, there are quite a few d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) groups that have Facebook pages. I sometimes see posts regarding open captioned movies. We try to get support for those movies since the theaters do go out of norm to get these films.
Tony in Michigan
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Not really a long shot Tony. It already happened. That's exactly why I started this thread. In my first post (third paragraph) I told of hearing about an open caption movie to be shown as the requested by a deaf/hard of hearing person. I found out through the deaf community and wanted to support the effort. I hadn't been to a movie in a long time and this one was open captioned. I enjoyed the movie and sent the theater a "thank you" for their consideration. I saw about 6 other deaf/hard of hearing people there that I knew. That was over 10% of the people in this small theater. I thought it was great that SOMEONE listened. We need to do more of this.