First off I want to
you to AD.
And secondly, you are not alone. I am hofh, as well as our 2 girls. They are hofh as well.
I go through alot concerning my Hub's side of the family, with our girls. They don't understand that they cannot hear them if they are even YELLING at them. Directly or indirectly facing them. I have had to step up and step on toes concerning this. Just because THEY believe their own "false facts" doesn't make it right. And my Hub and I had a VERY serious disagreement over this.
He remarked, well how can I disagree when I think the same way. That she is just ignoring us. I said she isn't, she can't hear and hearing aids just make all the muffling sounds even louder. It doesn't make it any clearer than before. I got ahold of a CD, its called," Getting through, let me see if I can burn it and send it to you through EMAIL. When you get it, you can copy it onto a disk. How does that sound?
It has different levels of lost. Mild, Moderate, Severe. What it means to be hofh. They do a hearing test as well, for them to see how difficult it is to actually hear with your time of hearing loss.
After Hub experienced this, and was able to take a look at the audiogram. He was more understanding. Now he actually stops them from getting upset with our girls, and tells them she can't hear you. Today, they were kinda of making fun of her signs. My Hub gave a nasty look. Everything was quiet, but before he was just one of those that just didn't think that ASL made an impact as it does. He also didn't think there was a good reason for it.
Me, I have had ASL all my life. They are apart of the Deaf Culture.
For them, it's a place of support, love and equality that they will experience.
From me as well as my hofh/deaf friends. They are embraced, and completely understood as to what their needs are. Where as hearing people take a long time to educate themselves, and understand the world that we live in IS NOT the same world they live concerning hearing and communication.
Let me know, about the CD.