My thoughts on audi visit/ASL

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I wasn't sure where to put this and it's just my thoughts on something but I wanted to share because it is about what I am learning/have learned here. I went to husband's audi office yesterday to pick up some batteries for him while he was at work. I really saw things differently when I was there, all the stuff about "opening up communication", "chance to hear" , various displays of phones and phone technology.....now I know that the vast majority of clients there are elderly people who have age or noise-exposure hearing loss. But what struck me was my perception, my awareness, was new. I looked at it thinking about ASL and the rich Deaf culture and thought what all those people are MISSING - the irony is that they think that the hearing people are missing something! Again, I know some folks now be like, well, no s#@@t! But I just wanted to share....

I signed when I was there...why?....cuz even though I know no one signs there, I was like, "ASL LIVES!":rockon:
 
Well, I hope you had fun! :lol:

Those offices exist for people who want to hear and who do benefit some from hearing aids. I like what I am able to hear although voice comprehension is not one.

I do sign so I can get the gist of the conversation, but your husband I believe is oral and prefers to use that method?

There isn't anything wrong with it. It is majority way. ASL is great with other ASL users but kind of pointless otherwise. ;)
 
dogmom said:
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and yes you're right my husband is oral and very literal.
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I think I love your husband. I am very literal also. He must come when we do our coffee.

I am very hard to lipread for deaf people because half my face does not work, but my moderately hard of hearing husband will translate. ( He often forgets to wear his hearing aids, so he comes up with odd stuff)

Once we went to Wendy's and he asked for baked potato. He looked really angry and when we got to our table, he asked me how they thought they could get away with not having baked potatoes for 30 days. I am not a great lipreader, but I did know they told him 30 minutes!:lol:
 
many audiologists are like this. Mine has a better understanding of Deaf culture because I have tried to educate. She can fingerspell and she will fingerspell words when they are new and long so I don't have to lipread. She is pretty good. THey have a few Deaf resources which I provided.
 
:( So true. For years, I have longed for the company of the Deaf culture. This thread awakens that longing. Even though I'm rusty with the basic sign, I will need to find a community close by and I hope I can find them. I hope it will not involve traveling to another city, but it is a very big possibility.

I keep going back to when I had a conversation in basic SEE with my friend who was an interpreter who knew I had only the basics of sign language. It was a mind-blowing experience. It almost felt like telepathy. It was so awesome. It made me melt. I felt so connected with my friend.

I really have to get fluent in sign, so I can have this experience again and communicate with the Deaf culture. I don't even have anyone to practice sign with. Having interpreters at doctors' appointments would be extremely helpful. I am hoping I have enough concentration to learn and become fluent, since I have chronic depression.
 
:ty: Bott for your invite for my hubby at the coffee:) although he'd end up with soad:lol:

oooh, I guess I'd be wondering how a restaurant could have no potatoes for 30 days too! I have met people with quite a range of lipreading ability - some d/Deaf people I have met - almost none - some who say they do "ok" and some think they do very well. Hubby attempts to lipread quite a bit but he says he isn't that good at it.

Yeah, the office has always been that way and I've been to others, same - but I hadn't been there in many months because husband's been able to go, and this time, I saw it with new perspective.
 
"soad" :lol: = soda

now am thinking of those "Frog and Toad" books :giggle:
 
dogmom said:
"soad" :lol: = soda

now am thinking of those "Frog and Toad" books :giggle:
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That's ok. I knew what you meant. I would likely end up with soda too. But my husband loves coffee.

I think more and more you husband must be my long lost younger brother. (Although I know I don't really have any.) Now that was a sensible sentence!:hmm:
 
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I love coffee. But I don't have most days.
You and he could have a soda "toast"!. He loves COLD and fizzy - except one time he forgot to take the soda out of the freezer <told ya he likes "cold"> and boom- guess what happened....

"sensible" can <CAN> be overrated.....

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dogmom said:
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I love coffee. But I don't have most days.
You and he could have a soda "toast"!. He loves COLD and fizzy - except one time he forgot to take the soda out of the freezer <told ya he likes "cold"> and boom- guess what happened....

"sensible" can <CAN> be overrated.....

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True!
 
JennyB said:
many audiologists are like this. Mine has a better understanding of Deaf culture because I have tried to educate. She can fingerspell and she will fingerspell words when they are new and long so I don't have to lipread. She is pretty good. THey have a few Deaf resources which I provided.
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yes, many audiologist do not know ASL either.
 
JennyB said:
What is this "Soda" that you speak of? Do you mean...pop?:giggle:

Some of us here only speak Canadian ;)
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Do you say "pop" up there, Jenny? I grew up farther south than Iowa saying pop, and never learned about soda until we went to El Paso, and I learned everyone is supposed to say "soda" from a Massachusetts transplant!


Long sentence. Tired now.
 
In Texas, it's always "Coke." It doesn't matter what kind of soda pop you mean. :lol:
 
yes soda is pop ...when i came back to canada I asked what kind of soda they had at a restaurant..and they were like huh?
 
one of my audis knows sign cos her husband is a interpeter. They come to the come to Deaf club
 
:ty:yup, Alicia, soda=pop oops! on error:giggle:
I had never heard of "pop" til I started going up North in WI and it was this "pop" and I was :confused: and then I went to college in central part of state and it was all this "pop". In my home growing up we didn't drink much soda/pop and I didn't/don't like it anyway. My folks sometimes like it in Summer.
also - "bubbler" = "water fountain" I never use "water fountain". :lol:

inmate, I think it is very cool that one of your audis comes to the Deaf club -
 
Yes, in Canada we call it pop. I'm a linguistics student and know what soda is...it is just fun to point out lexical variation in one language. Maybe just for me...
 
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