Is she qualified to be an audiologist???

Beowulf said:
I have yet to meet an audiologist who knows sign language. Tsk tsk.
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We're pretty lucky I guess, all 3 audi's that my child has had to date have all been fluent in ASL (one was HOH herself). Maybe because they are affiliated with a major CI Clinic.
 
GrendelQ said:
We're pretty lucky I guess, all 3 audi's that my child has had to date have all been fluent in ASL (one was HOH herself). Maybe because they are affiliated with a major CI Clinic.
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Luck is probably not a factor in your case, since I have the feeling you would insist on having a signing audiologist. When I had my test at the CI clinic a couple weeks ago, the audiologist was a fellow with a beard, and he didn't know signing, and I cannot lipread a hairbrush. In the interview immediately afterward another audiologist was present and she apparently knows some fingerspelling, since she spelled her name with a red face. I told them I would appreciate an interpreter next time and they agreed.
 
My CI centre most of staff (audiologist/therapist/TOD/etc) signs. I use spoken lang with them, if my Ci is off and I didn't understand them they sign. Got best of both eh..
 
Beowulf said:
I have yet to meet an audiologist who knows sign language. Tsk tsk.
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no kidding, I started asking when I was young teen (I had the same audiologist all my life) and was curious. I was shocked to find out he didn't. Since then, I've been asking every audiologists I met if they know it and every single one of them didn't.

It just surprised me that they work with deaf people and don't know ASL.

Maybe they just assign me to audiologists who don't know ASL because they know I didn't.
 
I have met audiologists who signed, very recently too. Sad thing is they are better than me.

I don't think sign language is mandatory for a degree in audiology.. Face it, it's a hearing profession anyway. I would imagine if they are truly passionate about their job they will have learned it. Otherwise, most of the time their job focuses on treating old elderly people who lose hearing due to age. I bet that population is larger than the percentage of deaf people in the USA.
 
naisho said:
I have met audiologists who signed, very recently too. Sad thing is they are better than me.

I don't think sign language is mandatory for a degree in audiology.. Face it, it's a hearing profession anyway. I would imagine if they are truly passionate about their job they will have learned it. Otherwise, most of the time their job focuses on treating old elderly people who lose hearing due to age. I bet that population is larger than the percentage of deaf people in the USA.
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You bet? :P Its true though.
 
posts from hell said:
You bet? :P Its true though.
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In my ASL class - we have a student who is going to be an audi. We also have a mix of HoH, older people who are about to go deaf, and younger students who just want to learn ASL because of their professions such as medic, teacher, psychologist, and speech therapist.

The worst student? that audi.
 
GrendelQ said:
We're pretty lucky I guess, all 3 audi's that my child has had to date have all been fluent in ASL (one was HOH herself). Maybe because they are affiliated with a major CI Clinic.
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THe CI audi I had was fluent in ASL.

She has been in the audi business since she was 19.

Unfortunately she left the CI team and started her own business 2 hours away. THe new CI group audis are young ladies that don't know diddly about ASL.

All the hearing aid shops I've been to in the last 20 years did not know any kind of SL.

It has NOTHING to do with whether the department is CI or HA, it is all about the medical field's requirements.
 
All the audiologists we have worked with knew some basic sign. It was more SEE than ASL, but it was understandable.
 
Well the whole thing sounds ridiculous, but, what were the test results. And the only response from the ENT was to roll his eyes?
 
I had so many audie in my life, I almost always get different one each visit when I was growing up and I never ever met audie can sign BSL. But I have met one staff can sign BSL but I can't remember what her job was, she was just chatting me about how I am doing at school etc.
 
Let me clarify this some more:

This audi works for the ENT surgeon's office. In order for me to discuss a CI with the surgeon, I must have a 'brief' hearing test before seeing him.

After the discussion with the surgeon, there is a formal hearing test with the CI audi, a different person in another location.

The first audi is the one I am not too impressed with. I don't give two shits about the first one, since I am not going to see her again. I just hope I don't have to deal with her again down the road.

I am questioning whether she is qualified to be an audi after this bizarre hearing test I just described.
 
We don't think she is qualified, green427, and that is all that matters.
 
green427 said:

Her: Ok, watch my lips. Say the word Baby. Say the word Kite. Say the word Toothbrush.

Me: Should I be reading your lips? Isn't this cheating on the test?

Her: Please be quiet and repeat after me. Say the word Peanut. Say the word Car....
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How rude! That procedure isn't gonna help...

I sticked with 1 audi all my life and we always "work together" when doing mappings because I need to be damn sure this is right because I'm not going back for a while and I want to tell my audi what's going on and what I want and talk talk talk. You need to let your audi hear your opinions... not have it her way and could have you in a worse situation because you didn't like it.
 
green427 said:
Ok, I went to my ENT for the insurance-required hearing test before talking to the doctor about getting a 2nd implant.

I already have a 7 year old Nucleus-24 on my right side.

The office has a 'new' audiologist, a woman in her late '40's with ADHD. :giggle:

This is a ENT office, and I am a patient with a hearing problem, right?

This woman came out to the crowded room and shouted my name while looking down at the papers.

Good thing I heard my name loud and clear, otherwise I would have been in that situation that we all go through: everyone in the waiting room stops talking and stares at you like you are an alien if you don't respond...

Ok, we both walk to the room together. She is asking me questions while not looking at me. Tells me to sit down

Her: what are you here for?

Me: I am here to discuss a possible 2nd implant in my left ear.

Her: You need to have a hearing test done, so please remove that hearing aid.

Me: I don't need a test in the implanted ear, just the other one. Implanted ears are 100% dead, you know?

Her: The paper here says 'hearing test', so I am going to do both anyway.

Me: Ok, fine. Whatever.

Puts the usual stuff in my ear, cranks up the pressure & volume until my head is ready to explode.

Her: Ok, now let's do the other one. (the un-implanted ear)

Repeats procedure.

Her: Ok, now go in that sound booth. I am going to say some words, repeat what I say.

I sit in the booth, facing away from the window.

Nothing....

I turn my head and look at her. She is obviously frustrated that I am not responding.

Me: Did you start yet?

Her: Yes, I told you to repeat what I said.

Me: I don't hear anything yet?

Her: Let me crank it up some more.

Me: Ok, now I hear something.

I turn my head away from the window.

I hear words, but after 10 words, I turn to her and shrug my shoulders.

Her: Can you read my lips?

Me: Yes.

Her: Ok, watch my lips. Say the word Baby. Say the word Kite. Say the word Toothbrush.

Me: Should I be reading your lips? Isn't this cheating on the test?

Her: Please be quiet and repeat after me. Say the word Peanut. Say the word Car....


This goes on for 2 more minutes, then she gets up and takes everything off, then tells me to go back and sit in the waiting room.


What the fuck?

I've been going to enough audi's to know what to expect.

I mentioned this to the ENT doctor, he rolled his eyes, let out a big sigh, and changed the subject. Apparently he is having a hard time finding good audi's.
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Fuck no. She should get fired for disqualifition.
 
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