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EPISODE · Aug 29, 2025 · 24 MIN

Speaking hands: a local man’s journey with hearing loss

from BYU-Idaho Radio · host BYU-Idaho Radio

When his wife and coworkers started to notice that he was missing parts of communication, Samuel Wadsworth decided to get his hearing checked. The testing revealed that he was starting to experience sensorineural hearing loss, a type of hearing loss that gradually becomes permanent. Relying on his family and God, Wadsworth found the deaf community in Idaho Falls and started to teach ASL to the community to spread awareness.

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