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Originally Posted by JennyB
Hey there,
My audiogram looks something like this...
R/L
250 105 110
500 110 115
700 120 120
1000 120 120
Nothing past that.
What is your hearing history like? I used to have more hearing than that, for most of my life I was moderate-profound HOH. I had the issues with language development though so I was started in Total Communication. I grew up knowing SEE and using oral communication. Now I am Deaf, I use ASL most of the time but I still speak and speech read as needed.
I love music and I always have. It is kind of interesting actually, I can't understand speech or the vast majority of environmental sounds to save my life but I can understand and enjoy music. It was a lot of work on my part, my audiologists too!
Have you looked at my blog? It's a bit of an overview of my life as a Deaf person...includes lots of stuff on struggles with the Naidas! Believe me there have been MANY problems! I just got a new set on Friday, my last ones were eating batteries! My new ones are purple too! Hehehe
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I had a mild/moderate hearing loss since college (a long time ago...) and had sudden severe loss about 6 months ago. Since then it has progressively deteriorated, now quite profound. Part of my issue is that things changed soooo rapidly that my brain hasn't caught up. I'm hoping that with time, I may be able to appreciate the sounds that I hear (if I don't lose the rest of my hearing before that). I'm pretty borderline for using the Naidas since the only benefit is environmental awareness, not speech recognition.