Recent content by Swedeafa

The more you use your hearing aids, the faster your brain will learn how to interpret the sound. It will just be a longer and more frustrating process if you stop wearing them consistently. Take notes on what you like and don’t like about the sound and the hearing aids, and bring them to your...

No problem at all. They certainly would have to have booked an interpreter to make sure I’m included in such an event. I would sign and the interpreter would voice. Deaf people are often quite good at public speech, since you always have to go in front of a group in order to sign something. For...

But a relatives role is quite different to an interpreter. They are there to support you, not to translate. Not only is interpreting not their profession, which means they will make mistakes and they cannot possibly be objective since they know you. If someone starts cursing at you and calling...

I’m Hard-of-Hearing, and it’s most efficient to be more precise about what you didn’t hear when asking people to repeat themselves. “Sorry, who went on a trip to Italy?”, “It’s so noisy in here I cannot follow, could you write that address down for me?”, “Are you talking about our new project...

Sorry, replied in wrong place.

Well, have you ever heard of Deaf getting killed or hurt because they couldn’t hear? We actually don’t get into dangerous situations very often, due to lack of hearing. There was in fact a Deaf woman in my country who just happened to get in the way for a shooting in the 80:s. But that’s such a...

If your hearing aids are Bluetooth compatible you should get a streamer for phone calls. Talk to your audiologist - and your boss of course.

Signing doesn’t have anything to do with speaking, really. But an experienced signer would of course adapt their signing to be slower and more clear around new signers, if they want to be nice and facilitate communication. Hearing people would try to speak more clearly around HoH/Deaf, and...

But, it is around other HoH people you would need to try to be extra clear in articulation. :)

Oh, being only 25 is actually great. You can still learn sign language, get a few signing friends and use interpreters. If you bring your closest family to signing lessons you will eventually get a decent social context. Losing hearing does have such an impact on social relations, but if you...

Well, the facial expression means everything. I think it’s cute, any communication that works is good.

Several of you mention not learning sign language. I would encourage you to learn even if you are retired, or don’t know people who sign. Just see it as an interesting language to explore. You will meet people who sign as you learn. My number one tip is to convince family to make it into a...

Agree totally, did exactly what you describe, and it does help. Additionally, I moved a lot to get the jobs I wanted, where there is a positive atmosphere.

Mee too. I’ve kind of accepted this now, and do have friends who sign or who are ok with texting, using Facebook or whatever other accessible communication tool we choose. But it still hurts when you really want to stay in touch with someone, and they don’t really understand it doesn’t work to...

Tinnitus is common, and where I live most people will have heard of it, especially HoH will know about it. If you try to explain how it works, it might be something like phantom pains, like when a toe hurts even though the leg has been amputated. The nerve system and brain are tricked into...