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Lily Goh
Lily Goh is a Deafness, Deaf Singaporean artist, entrepreneur, and community leader. Early life and education Goh's Deafness was discovered when she was two years old. She experiences Hearing loss, profound deafness in both ears. She was enrolled in the Canossian School of the Hearing Impaired for her primary education (1998–1993). She was a member of the school's percussion band, eventually becoming a band leader. She was also in the swimming club. She then went on to Saint Anthony's Canossian Secondary School (1994–1997), where she continued her musical journey by participating in the concert band. After completing her Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level, GCE 'O' Level examinations, she pursued a Diploma in Information Technology at Ngee Ann Polytechnic (1998–2001). She had an active co-curricular life, taking on various roles in the Hearing Impaired Club such as president, Performing Arts Coordinator, and Vice-Treasurer. Again, she took part in the school's concert ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deafness
Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts. In medical contexts, the meaning of deafness is hearing loss that precludes a person from understanding spoken language, an audiological condition. In this context it is written with a lower case ''d''. It later came to be used in a cultural context to refer to those who primarily communicate through sign language regardless of hearing ability, often capitalized as ''Deaf'' and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign. The two definitions overlap but are not identical, as hearing loss includes cases that are not severe enough to impact spoken language comprehension, while cultural Deafness includes hearing people who use sign language, such as children of deaf adults. Medical context In a medical context, deafness is defined as a degree of hearing difference such that a person is unable to understand speech, even in the presence of amplification. In profound deafness, even the highest intensity sound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
