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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just want to throw this in...I am completely deaf on my left side and maintain 30% of my hearing on the right. Depending on the sounds of the words, you may not get my attention until mid sentence and at that point I use your gestures to help me. I speak normally because I didn't lose the majority of my hearing until I was 22, so I don't have that off-sounding, giveaway voice you'd expect. I also don't wear hearing aids. I will read your lips if I know to look at you. Children are incredibly hard to understand because their mouths don't move correctly and they do so much pointing. It may be worth considering.  [/quote]

Would you have accepted a babysitting job without sharing this with the parents?[/quote]

I don't tell anyone. I am able to function with limited difficulty and really dislike when people yell instead of talk because they think I can't understand. [/quote]

If you have a disability that may impair your ability to do a job and do not disclose it, you should not be upset when you are dismissed without explanation.  In this case, if I had hired you to care for my children and you did not disclose that, I would consider you highly unethical.  A parent needs to know that the person who is caring for their children is capable of handling any issues or emergencies that come up and if there needs to be any adaptation for them.  For example, we keep ringers on our telephones set to low.  What if you didn't hear the telephone when we tried to call?  I can easily set the phone ringer to high to compensate, but not if I don't know.  I also don't think it is fair for someone who may have difficulty understanding children's speech because they can't lip-read to not disclose this potential issue to the parents before sitting for their children.  I want to know if my child is hurt and crying and not enunciating clearly that the caretaker can actually resolve the issue, including figuring out what happened by asking the child.
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