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I was reading an article about how a person can increase their reading speed and the concept of subvocalization came up. The idea is that typically, when a person reads, they "say" the words in their brain, and this slows them down; speedreaders try to suppress this process to become more...

I was wondering if anyone had any experiences with this. Last month one of them asked me to remove my CI but I told him I need it to hear and he let me keep it on. But that was before they started using the more "enhanced" screenings. I'm going to be on a plane flight next week and I wanted to...

Facebook about to launch a Gmail-slaying Titan? -- Engadget Sounds interesting, and competition is definitely good for making software better for the consumers. I probably wouldn't use it over Gmail though, since I'm not really a fan of the way Facebook "walls off" people's data so to...

There have been a couple of cases where people have compromised themselves in some way because they didn't expect me to be able to hear them. One vivid example would be my behind-the-wheel drivers' ed teacher. Some background: we had finished 2 classes and were almost done with the 3rd and...

I was curious to know what others' fields were and if there's any patterns. Some people have told me that the majority of deaf males at MIT went into computer science - that would include me, one other guy who graduated last semester, and people from previous years. I got into computer science...

My experiences have shown that being deaf can impact this, and it does occur pretty much every day for me. For example, there's the issue of not being able to follow a conversation because you missed something, and also the difficulty of hearing others in noisy places. There's also the...

I just set up an account and wanted to introduce myself. My name's Rahul and I'm from central Maryland. I've been deaf since birth, and I wore hearing aids for the first decade or so, then got a cochlear implant in my right ear. I still wear a hearing aid in the left ear though. I'm a sophomore...