The most detrimental illness or condition that an older adult with deafness that occurred at birth can experience is which one of the following?
a. Aphasia
b. Cataracts
c. Glaucoma
d. Osteoarthritis
B
Cataracts can have a potentially devastating impact on the life of an individual with prelingual deafness because sign language is the primary source for communication. Without the ability to read signing or lips accurately, the older adult who has a cloudy lens is unable to receive com-munication except by Braille. Aphasia has the potential to affect the individual's life; however, with adequate vision, some means of communication can remain viable. Glaucoma would not devastate the individual's ability to read sign language unless blindness occurred. Effective treatment should help maintain the individual's baseline visual acuity. Osteoarthritis can make signing more difficult for an individual with prelingual deafness, but it is not nearly as devastat-ing to the ability to communicate as a cloudy lens from cataracts.
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