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“The notion of a deaf lifeguard is not as farfetched as it might seem. Bathers in trouble rarely, if ever, cry for help. They can’t. They’re choking on water and can’t get out a sound. They either thrash madly or disappear quietly under the surface. That’s why lifeguards are trained to scan the surface with their eyes. They’re not listening for cries of “Help!” but watching for abnormal behavior in the water. When actual rescues aren’t being conducted, lifeguarding is almost entirely a visual task. As a group, I would later learn, the deaf are measurably superior to the hearing in the discernment of visual cues and the speed of responses to them. There’s nothing superhuman about this phenomenon.”

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This is Henry Kisor. He worked for the Chicago Sun-times news then became an author. The book "Whats that Pig Outdoors." was his first book. He wrote about his life of being deaf and started from the beginning of how he became deaf.

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“Blindness is a handicap of mobility, deafness one of communication. Terrible as is loss of vision, it does not distance the blind from the sighted the way loss of hearing separates the deaf from the normal.” Page 10

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This book is a memoir to deafness of the life of Henry Kisor. He writes about growing up being deaf. How people react or usually act to him being deaf. He also wrote about how he gets used to it and how deafness should not separate people from the hearing world. As if hearing is something like freckles or blond hair. He talks about his job at the Chicago Suntimes. He also goes into how he became deaf and why he wrote the book. He talks about his struggles and the seperation of the deaf and the hearing world(as said earlier). He talks about things like how taking calls was hard because he would need someone else to take the call then communicate to him. Overall this book goes into depth of the life of a deaf person with a narrator who experienced deafness in real life.

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Lip reading is another way of communication for the hearing impaired. Henry Kisor used lip reading to communicate.

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“Even for a child, the major component of lipreading is guesswork. It’s often said that only 30 to 40 percent of lipreading is actual “reading” of each word; the rest is “context guessing” to fill in the gaps between the words that are actually understood.”

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Most deaf people use American Sign Language.ASL is certain hand motions that stand for letters.

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https://people.com/archive/whats-that-pig-outdoors-a-journalist-explores-the-humor-and-hazards-of-growing-up-deaf-vol-33-no-24/

This is an interview with Henry Kisor the Author of the book. He talks about the book and more on his life.

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ASL Book Report "What's That Pig Outdoors"