Recent content by angelstar819

You should see if you're a candidate for a cochlear implant if you have a progressive hearing loss and your hearing aids are not benefiting you now. Also, you can always try to request real-time captioning services through your disabilities office. I currently use it and it has helped me...

i read this guy's book, and i have to say it was very interesting to read. i never thought i would consider myself to be a cyborg with my implant. you guys should read it if you have a chance. it's called "rebuilt."

i'm profoundly deaf with a CI and was raised orally. i'm currently attending UCLA now. i totally agree with your post. it's come to my attention that big universities like UCLA (with a population of close to 35,000 students) do not have that many deaf students as i hope they would have. it seems...

if you have the nucleus 22 processor like i do, i don't think the freedom for that is out yet. the freedom's only available for the nucleus 24 users. the most recent processor for the nucleus 22 is the esprit 3G. not sure about the cost. you probably should ask/call your audiologist. and don't...

last year, in my dorm room, my roommate and i each brought our own televisions. initially, she brought hers in the beginning of the year, but it was an old model and didn't have closed captioning. so i decided to bring an old one that was stored in the garage that has CC. so we set our...

I’m currently doing a paper on the Deaf subculture for my cultural anthropology class. If you use ASL as your primary mode of communication, I would really appreciate it if you could answer these questions for me. Please do not feel obligated to answer all of them, but the more you answer, the...

wow cheri, what caught my eye was your 16,364 posts.

he needs to learn SEE if he wants his writing to improve. or have him READ a lot of books. there's always going to be writing involved in his life, so he might as well learn how to do it now than later. you should be his hot tutor. lol.

you need more of a private tutor, rather than studying from a bunch of books if you want your score to improve. you decide. your future, your life.

lol, a 12? that's freaking low. the best you can get into is probably gallaudet. RIT/NTID has pretty high academic standards. unless you have a decent GPA, i wouldn't apply there.

i disagree with total communication--both oralism and ASL. the reason is that the child's speech will be drastically delayed if s/he is learning ASL, and would refuse to use their voice and just sign. so if you want your child to learn to talk, do oralism ONLY in order to maximize their...

wow, this is sad that he writes like this.

you should look into Real Time Captioning (RTC), in which the captionist transcribes everything the professor says in class on a laptop. i'm currently using it and I find it to be very helpful in following the lectures. it's pretty much the only option i had, since i don't know any ASL to use an...

one thing i hate is when people assume that just because i have a CI, that i can hear normally and that i may consider myself hearing. well, it's NOT true! yes, i do have a CI, but this doesn't mean that i can hear just as well as everyone else. and yes, i may have good speech and listening...

i'm a CI user myself and the reason why my hearing parents chose the CI for me was because they wanted me to have more opportunities in life. and by this, i mean they wanted me to be able to learn to talk and listen and happily adapt into the hearing world. deaf people are a minority. the...