Recent content by rivenoak

For anyone curious, no, I didn't have another post in there somewhere. Just the one to which the above was a response. You thought I was ignorant and patronizing from my post? I'm not trying to educate anyone. I'm just saying that in MY real life, the deaf and hard of hearing have a very...

IME, the AD community has a much more Deaf/ASL/deaf school way of looking at things than the d/hh I have met IRL so far. This has surprised me IRL. Maybe I haven't been exposed to enough Deaf d/hh IRL? But, I try to take in the information from everyone on all sides. It all informs how I...

Is there a Director of the band? Is he/she aware that you are frustrated with the tech? Something we've been saying a lot at work lately when someone is frustrating us with their (poor) communication is, "Help me help you." That is, give me the information I need so that I can give you what...

Back in 1988, there was a fast food joint in Muncie, IN that would not only deliver food, but take a personal check! I did this at least once while at Ball State University that fall. I want to say it was Rally's, but that might not be correct.

H&V should have resources for you or be able to point you toward some. Ask if they have a "Guide By Your Side" program for school-aged situations.

It is a mainstream classroom. At this point, the main accommodation is a sound field FM system & preferential seating. There are others like having a familiar person test him, extra time for tests, etc. At the next IEP meeting, I will request ASL. I have an idea of how that's going to go over...

As of today, he starts in another classroom at the school. I did some observations in December & we were offerred the opportunity for him to switch to a different teacher. After I watched both teach, we readily consented to his being moved to the other teacher. She has 20+ years experience...

Yes And it forever shaped me, especially now as a parent. I went to school with one of the victims. While I wouldn't normally cite wikipedia, this entry is pretty up to date based on my recent readings (Detroit newspapers, etc) Oakland County Child Killer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

jillio, thank you for posting those book titles.

I didn't know until last month. I posted in another thread about it: I thought I was missing some speech, so figured I was just having age-related loss. I got it checked out and audi says, not age related, not noise related. Could really be genetic after all.

Can you turn off the text function on your phone? That would stop it, I think. But maybe it wouldn't inspire them to try voice calling you.:hmm: I tried texting a landline once & got a message back that it was a landline & didn't accept texts.

Can they use a speech to text app? I think my Droid Charge offers that, but I haven't tried it yet, so not sure if it's any good.

Yup. I'm one. I recently noticed difficulty hearing some things & thought I'd have it checked out. Figured it might just be due to getting older (I need bifocals now, too). Nope, not age-related. Not noise-related, either. Saw the audi first. She requested I follow up with an ENT based...

Not exactly. I tend to work from 6:30-3. He works 9-whenever he can get away. So, I can be home in time for school dismissal & son wouldn't have to go to afterschool program. DH could drop him off at playground time before school (30 min before bell) instead of before school program. It...

That was very funny. Now, to find a victim... :laugh2: