Recent content by actaeon

does anybody have any experience making relay calls - video, vco, text, whatever - with a windows phone? switching to android/apple is not an option for me.

hi acronym! yeah, it's pretty absurd. i'm seriously considering just going and talking to the proctor beforehand. it'd be great if i could hear from people who have actually done this, just to be safe, but you're right that there's not likely to be any important announcements. i've been...

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i believe rochester technical institute (rit.edu) has many technical and computer engineering programs, and they have a good support system for deaf people. there is also the national technical institute for the deaf (ntid.rit.edu) connected to RIT. i don't know if they have the phd you want...

surely somebody here has taken the GRE within the past ten years, if not sooner!

if the support system at blue valley is sufficient for faithy to feel like the education is rigorous enough then i don't see what the problem is. faithy - you should look into the CART frisky mentioned, just to be informed, but if you don't like interpreters you may not like CART either because...

faithy's already started at the hearing school. this is not helpful.

all right. sounds like you're prepared for students asking/answering questions in class as well as for group discussions. i haven't really used a note-taker so i don't know how that works in those situations. hopefully someone else here can describe their experiences or you can discuss that with...

i've only ever been in mainstream classrooms. one-on-one i can read lips&c pretty well but it's very different in a classroom and more so as you move up in grades - teacher moving around, students behind you, group discussions, etc. it's incredibly easy to miss most of what's happening, and i...

hi - i'm studying for the GRE. their website says that if i want to request an interpreter, i have to fill out a long form and get my old college ODS to sign it, then mail it in and wait six weeks - and that's just to register so i can pick a test date! if they decide they want more...

a year, not too bad! thanks for the thoughtful descriptions, they're very helpful and i bet a lot of other people will find them useful too. will start saving up for earhooks.... hope that rolling up the cord like people do with headphones doesn't count as rough treatment, haha

the only streamer i know about has a remote you wear around the neck. i have very bad memories of clunky ugly fm systems from elementary school and never want to wear anything like that again.

cdmeggers and anybody else using the earhooks - do you find them comfortable? how long do they normally last before needing to be replaced? they seem very expensive..... i've used direct input leads for a long time, but my audiologist recently switched to a different kind that is definitely...

fyi - not all beer uses animal products! check out barnivore.com if you want to find vegan alcohol. i feel you on the meat smell. after so long not eating that stuff it all smells weird now. weather is nice here today - if it's nice where you are, go outside?

personal opinion (maybe someone else can give you harder facts) it would help if i had to go to the hospital, which is not unlikely. out of pocket, no insurance, my bill could easily be in the 100,000s - 1 mil after just one night. with insurance, my bill would be a lot lower. not perfect, but a...