My name is Brian and I am hard-of-hearing. I lost my hearing around the age of 3 years when I contracted Bacterial Meningitis. I lost my ability to walk and hear... If I hadn't learned to speak before this incident, I would probably not be able to speak now. The only "scar" from the virus is the hearing loss. However, I communicate through lipreading, speech, and sign language.
I am an English major (Literature, Writing, and Journalism emphases) and hope to achieve my Master's of Library and Information Sciences (hopefully through the distance education program at University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee) to become a Librarian. I am attending Concord University which is a dominant hearing school and am the only deaf currently attending. I have a transcriber who uses TypeWell to aid me in class.
I am fluent in PSE but want to learn more ASL. I also hope to start up a group for sign language here on campus so that others can learn not only to communicate with me, but understand the deaf community a bit more.
I am glad to have the best of both worlds (hearing and deaf) although I want to get more active in the deaf community and meet other deafies and make up for lost time. [I was not allowed to sign in depth while I was growing up and only knew the basics because my stupid "audiologist" (probably a AGBell supporter) informed my family and parents that I would not need it nor did they need to learn it to communicate with me.]
I am an English major (Literature, Writing, and Journalism emphases) and hope to achieve my Master's of Library and Information Sciences (hopefully through the distance education program at University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee) to become a Librarian. I am attending Concord University which is a dominant hearing school and am the only deaf currently attending. I have a transcriber who uses TypeWell to aid me in class.
I am fluent in PSE but want to learn more ASL. I also hope to start up a group for sign language here on campus so that others can learn not only to communicate with me, but understand the deaf community a bit more.
I am glad to have the best of both worlds (hearing and deaf) although I want to get more active in the deaf community and meet other deafies and make up for lost time. [I was not allowed to sign in depth while I was growing up and only knew the basics because my stupid "audiologist" (probably a AGBell supporter) informed my family and parents that I would not need it nor did they need to learn it to communicate with me.]