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 * Hearing Impaired and Social Networking**

===Everyone in today's society is using the internet. Social networking sites have been popping up all over the place and have become one of the most accessed on the internet. Sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter etc. are some of the ones that come to mind when I talk to my students. I didn't realize how much of a challenge it can be to use and communicate things types of sites for people with disabilities. I looked into hearing impaired and social networking sites. There are so many social networking sites popping up on the internet and some are aimed for teens and children with hearing impaired issues. Some social networking sites that I have found that are specific to this type of disability are TagDeaf. This social networking sites is free like Facebook and offers many of the same features as that but is mostly made up of the hearing impaired community. This website is somewhere deaf or hearing impaired people can go get support, meet friends, and share photos with others who have the same challenges they have. After reading the article The Internet: Breaking down barriers to communicate for deaf teens, I realized how important social networking sites can be for not only deaf people but teens or adolescents who are facing this disability. For hearing impaired students this type of access helps break down barriers they face in the real world. This article talks about how most hearing impaired use American sign language and written English as a second language, they are more often likely to use various types of internet communicate.===