Should I use subtitles?

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Hello, I a hoh person(moderate-to-severe). I wear hearing aids in both ears, full time. I wnt to put subtitles up when I'm watching telly, but my older sister and mum say I'm just a lazy listener and if I actually try to listen, I will. I miss half the story without the subtitles. Some people say that when they talk to me they would never in a million years think I was hard of hearing so, my question is am I a lazy listener and should I have subtitles on? My teacher (she's specialises in deaf studies) say that I shaould use them but it really annoys my mum and sister.
 
I think it is selfish of them to deny you the captions. I find it exhausting working so hard to hear, and knowing you will still miss alot. you cannot enjoy the show if you cannot follow what's going on. Use them, and maybe let them know your specialist at school agrees. It may help them if you all watch a show, and they wear ear plugs.I did that with a group of friends, and it worked! Sometimes people have to experience things from anothers shoes. I hope it all works out for you.
 
if your sister or mother wears glasses, tell them to take the glasses off and try to read something from far away. If they can't, tell them they're being lazy. Maybe they'll get the point.
 
Your mum and sister are wrong. It is not fair to you. Turn on the subtitle, so you can enjoy it. You don't need to appease them.

Suggestion: Turn down the volume or press mute button on the remote control. Force your mum and sister to try to listen to television for a while to see if they like that.

I've personally seen deaf adults being treated poorly by their parents, and siblings. It is so bad. Never understand why their parents get so defensive when deaf adults' hearing friends are able to communicate with them via sign language in front of their hearing parents. They hiss.

Deaf adult I know was packing up his things outside. His hearing brother came by unexpectedly, and yelled his name repetitively so loud, and it scared his neighbors to step outside to see what's going on. His brother doesn't need to yell so awfully that Deaf adult can't hear. Duh.
 
Oh my god! I can totally relate! I put on the captions all the time and my family still gets annoyed when I do so. Partly because I've lived up to three years ago without watching any television without captions.

Your family can fight with you all they want. Put the captions on, you wont' have to ask as many questions if you do. L :
 
Oh, I just remembered what I did that made people stop complaining about subtitles...I told them that if they won't agree to switching on the captioning, that I have no choice but to pester them every 5 minutes to tell me what people on tv were saying.

they opted for captioning.
 
Sometimes, people don't realize how incredibly selfish they are being. Just turn on the captions without asking for them because you want to be able to understand what's going on.
 
turn them on! They don't understand how much you actually hear, and if the subtitles help you big time, then use them.
 
It's tough with modern movies and tv. The music and sound effects are SO LOUD, yet the dialect is too quiet. I don't understand why they do this...
 
CC doesn't take a lot of space. What is soooo important that CC has to be in way of watching TV or movie??
 
Turn it on anyway, and if they turn it off on you. Just quietly leave the room and refuse to watch with them.

Hopefully they will eventually miss your company or confront you about it.
Just say. "What is the point of watching if I don't understand it?"

It worked for my sister and Dad...They worked on mom for me.
 
Try to explain to your mum and sister that you need to use subtitles to understand the speech on TV. Lots of people don't realise that although we can 'hear' with HAs, it can be quite distorted and isn't as clear as it is for those who have normal hearing.

When I was young although my mum would constantly encourage me to use my HAs she had no idea that there was other technology out there, besides HAs, that can help in everyday situations. Maybe you could try using a loop system to help you hear the TV. Because your hearing loss is moderate to severe you may well benefit from one. I use one and find it really useful, you can turn it up really loud and it doesn't affect the volume for anyone else. You may be able to get help with funding from Social Services, try asking about it at your audiology department.

As you live in Ireland you could probably get one from Connevans in the UK, here's a link to the one I use:

Sarabec LA215 TV Loop Amplifier - connevans.co.uk

Hope that helps.
 
Tell your mom and sister that is not only about not being able to hear, it is not able being to understand what being said. I know I can sometime heard what being said but I will not able to understand every word and that can being very frustrating when you are watching a movie or show on TV. Your mother and sister are totally clueless about what they're saying and I really think you should bring them both to your audiologist so she/he can educate them. You should ask your mother and sister if they heard a person talking in a foreign language can they understand that person because they can heard them?
The only other thing to it have your own TV. I can't believe they're calling you a lazy listener!
 
Hello, I a hoh person(moderate-to-severe). I wear hearing aids in both ears, full time. I wnt to put subtitles up when I'm watching telly, but my older sister and mum say I'm just a lazy listener and if I actually try to listen, I will.
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Who knows how YOU feel?

ONLY YOU!!!

Smash this little fists of yours on the table, and say with all your power
that from now on you don't take crap from nobody
and the SUBTITLES stay ALWAYS on!!!!!

Sweetie, your hearing impairment is more important than anything else in your family.
not only your family is dead wrong,
you have all the rights to demand that the whole life accommodate around you hearing better!

This include not only CC to be turned on TV but also- lights on the door bell, lights on the phone, light or shaker on the alarm clock and so on.

Don't you ever doubt yourself and your hearing needs ever again!

NOBODY, BUT NOBODY IS TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT DO!!!

Only you live the life of a hearing impaired person and only you decide what you are capable of, or not capable.
Even if you WOULD hear but you DON'T want to - prefer to read indeed of laziness - IT'S YOUR OWN BUSINESS, NOBODY DAMN ELSE!!
Remember that!

In short - grow a pair, sweetie :)


I demand CC not only in my own house turned on at all times, I demand we do not watch anything when I am present that does not have CC.
If there is something that is very interesting but has no CC when I want to watch TV - TOO BAD!!! let them tape it.
(unless I am not that interested in watching the telly).

Not only that, if I am visiting my friends and we are watching TV I demand the CC is turned on or I will go home, period.
Why should I be invited, make an effort to come and then sit bored out of my mind?
heII, NO!

Fuzzy
 
Tell your family that you're deaf, and there's no technology in the world that would enable you to hear TV better.

Stand up for your right and dignity.

Also tell them that they cannot tell you not to do this or do that especially if it's related to deafness, if they have not walked in your shoes.
 
You need find way to persuade them put CC on tv.

You could try any of those:

1) Get them watch TV with no sounds on and see how they like it.

2) Tell them that you will on, on, on asking them what characters saying on TV if there no CC cos you can't understand and tell them you leave them alone if CC is on tv.

3) Explain to them that you cannot hear well because background noise, music, etc on TV and characters speak too fast, accent, face away from screen so can't lipread, etc.

4) Tell them you won't watch tv with them because it pointless without understanding what it is about, or if they asked you watch with them.

That all I can think of for now.

Have your hearing got worse over time? If it have then tell them you cannot hear well as you used to.

How deaf are you?

Mild deafness: Can do without CC if background noise is okay and volume up.

Moderate deafness: Can same above for some and most probably starting need to use CC.

Severe deafness: DEFO need CC! Even with Cochlear Implant they still NEED CC.

Profound deafness: DEFO need CC! Even with Cochlear Implant they still NEED CC.

If your in severe or profound then they got NO excuse what so ever deny you CC!! Even moderate deafness need use CC.
 
Have your teacher write letter to you mom and sister saying you need to have CC when watching TV! It is a real drag your mom and sister are just big jerks about you being HOH! You need to just turn the CC on and make it clear that you need it on as you can't understand what being said. You should not being asking for permission to enjoy watching TV , it is your house too and you should not be treated as a second class person. Go for it !
 
I wish there was an "enhanced speech"option. Something to boost the dialog track and keep the background from overpowering. I think they use sound to create an emotional impact. But if you cannot understand then the impact is lost.
 
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I wish there was an "enhanced speech"option. Something to boost the dialog track and keep the background from overpowering. I think they use sound to create an emotional impact. But if you cannot understand then the impact is lost.
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Me too! I hate turning up the tv to understand what is being said (you know, the important stuff???), only to have my ears blasted later with sound effects.
 
I use the captions.

since Cheetah and mbrek mentioned this, for me this is an issue too- the sound effects. Especially in the actions movies and stuff - hubby and I both like those and it wildly seems to vacillate from being unintelligible to a bomb being dropped in the family room; also don't want to totally blast the dogs out of the house.

interesting- hubby actually doesn't like them because for him, they're a distraction - he doesn't see well enough or read quickly enough to find them useful <Rubella Syndrome> and he is also VERY deliberate and discriminating about certain things in terms of patterns, color, details, lighting, that kinda thing. So they annoy him, but he has them on for me.
 
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