Nguyen Thai Thanh, who is deaf, has opened a hair salon in Hanoi with employees with hearing disabilities, reports Vietnamnet.
When customers arrived, they will be given a piece of paper to write their orders. Sometimes, it takes only a few minutes to communicate with the customers and other times, the whole page is filled with conversations
When Thanh works, other students will stand next to him to learn via sign language.
Thanh was deaf since birth and graduated from Nhan Chinh School for the Deaf and Mute. He has learned many jobs like cooking and sewing but none suits him until he fell in love with hairdressing and wanted to help others learn a skill to feed themselves.
His salon has three employees, all of them are deaf. Thanh said he understood the challenges for persons with disabilities when learning hairdressing so he wanted to create the best learning environment as possible for people who are deaf.
“I was introduced to this salon by a friend. I was curious too after knowing that the salon belongs to a deaf man. I got a lot of compliments after getting my hair done there so I also recommended this salon to my family.” said Dinh Thi Thu Ha, a customer at the salon.
