Hi! I'm a new CAPD'er from Washington state

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Hi, everyone! I just got diagnosed earlier this month with integral Central Auditory Processing Disorder after many years of struggling to get an accurate diagnosis. I taught myself to sign because I knew something was up. Now I am working on improving my signing skills through an online site called Start ASL. And, as my nickname (brailleandasl) suggests, I know both Literary Braille and sign language, although I am better at contact sign than I am at ASL (having grown up with English.) (I am studying to soon take a course to become a certified Braille transcriptionist.) Glad to meet everyone!
 
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very interesting...I read somewhere there are different levels of Braille...
 
There's grade one Braille, which is the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation without contractions. Literary Braille uses the contractions. And, there's Nemeth Code which is math and science Braille. (I know very little Nemeth Code, but I will eventually need to learn it in order to transcribe math and science textbooks.) Now there is the Unified Braille Code which just recently got adopted, and I will have to learn that, too. Yikes!
 
Being that I have CAPD, when I become a Braille transcriptionist I probably should communicate with my clients as much as possible via email and text message, I guess. I really dislike using the telephone, as I get lost ("drown") in a sea of words. My transcriptionist friend/mentor uses the phone a lot to discuss her work. I wish I could do that. But, at least it helps to *finally* have a diagnosis.
 
:welcome: to AllDeaf Forum. Can you imagine the waitresses or waiters gave the menus in Braille to Deaf and Hard Of Hearing customers in restaurants? This is ridiculous. Only for the Deafblind, but not us, Deafies and HOH. **shaking my head**

I hope you have fun reading and posting here. See you around here. :wave:
 
:welcome: Welcome to the All Deaf forum! It is quite interesting you want to become a certified Braille transcriptionist. I wish you best in this endeavor of yours!
 
Yeah. Just like I hear that sometimes ASL interpreters get asked if they know Braille. Thanks, everyone! Glad to meet everyone!


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:wave:hey again, appreciate the info!

I happen to have LD and possibly CAPD but never diagnosed with latter, just a suspicion based on my background.
What led you to find out yourself?

Is the Braille course at a school?
 
I kept getting my hearing tested, always within normal limits, but kept having serious problems of hearing nonsense words in background noise, forgetting important details of stuff presented entirely orally, having. a miserable time with following oral directions, and misinterpreting the meaning of stories and conversations.

I had a very long battle with the medical system to stop sending me to Ear Nose Throat doctors, and send me instead to a CAPD specialist. The doctors and nurses kept thinking that all hearing disorders are in the ears. They never heard of CAPD/APD before.

I learned Braille because of a former battle with once-severe Convergence Insufficiency, now better after vision therapy. I learned Braille through a correspondence school for the blind. I am now improving my Literary Braille skills to prepare to take the Braille Transcription Certification course online (and by mail) through the National Federation of the Blind.

Come to find out, my form of CAPD is from the same general area as the vision problem.

I have a special interest in the deafblind and in Deafness and blindness issues, spending many hours studying all three.


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