Paul: Deaf individuals face severe communication barriers at food establishments
Pierre Paul · Meet The HIBT Fellows: Pierre Paul & Toby Egbuna · May 11, 2021 · at 4:17
Pierre Paul, founder of assistive technology startup We Hear You, explains the communication challenges facing deaf and hard of hearing people that inspired him to create the company.
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“The fact that individuals with hearing exceptionalities, whether it be their hard of hearing or their deaf, have a hard time communicating at food establishments. And it was as simple as they tried to order food, whether writing it on a piece of paper or a napkin and hand it to the associate and the associate is dismissive. Or the associate doesn't know American Sign Language and they're not able to have their freedom and autonomy to order in their natural language.”
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