Recent content by abbeylayne

YouTube is the absolute worst when it hasn't actually been transcribed. Sometimes the errors can be funny. But most of the time it's just highly inconvenient. And I use my phone more than my computer and it's nearly impossible to get captions on YouTube that way. abbey layne

I'm hard of hearing and my best friend is hearing with little knowledge of ASL. We both work at the same job and today he asked me a very important question. How do you provide the best service for a deaf/hoh customer? I showed him a few basic signs like thank you, help, eat; as well as telling...

I almost never have a problem with Netflix. Sometimes they'll mess up a word or something but pretty much everything they have is captioned. I have a big problem using YouTube. If the person isn't looking at the screen (or is off screen) and I don't have my aids in I have no idea what's going...

This is a common behavior for lots of HOH folks. At least for me personally. I'm HoH. Before my aids and even now. Asking "what?" Is extremely frustrating for the HOH person (and for me personally embarrassing with my job). And the hearing person can get just as tired of hearing "what did you...

Yes. Their the RIC Pure. Like I said they hearing aids themselves haven't presented a problem ( and the rechargeable battery is very nice). The cleaning equipment just seems like total crap. abbey layne

This is my first ever post on this site. And this has something that has really been bothering me. I got my hearing aids (FINALLY!!!) in late February and while I love my Siemens hearing aids it seems like the tools i was given to clean them with were complete crap. Does anyone else have this...