Recent content by KatieBug2014

Well, I have talked to my parents and there is just no convincing them that I don't need the BAHA. There's just no help for it, so I give up. They say "You need the BAHA, I don't care what people on this website say. You need it to hear if an ambulance is behind you." Hello, it's called mirrors...

ok thanks for clearing that up for me, it's definitley the BAHA that I have

Can you explain it to me please because I never heard of it.

Ok, I'm confused. I thought a baha and a cochlear implant were the same thing. You'd think I'd know, but my audiologist and family interchange the terms.

Hmm..... When we're in a really quiet setting and they try whispering to me. I tell them that wont work and they do it anyways. When they are walking in front of me and trying to talk to me. I can't see their lips. For the same reason, I hate when teachers are lecturing and they start...

I have turner syndrome. It's a genetic disorder and it caused my ears to be deformed which caused me to have chronic ear disease. the ear infections are what killed my hearing.

Hi everyone :) I'm Katie. I'm 17, and I'm hard of hearing. I've had a cochlear implant since I was 8. I've been raised in the hearing world and don't know anyone who is deaf. I have taken an ASL class and I plan to take more as soon as possible.

Does anyone else have really bad feedback on their cochlear implant? Even when I turn the volume down or turn it a different way, it squeals and, quite frankly, freaks people out at school because they don't know what the heck it is.

So, I'm hard of hearing, but I was raised in the world of hearing people. I started taking sign language at the beginning of the year, and I have started to want to learn more about deaf culture and maybe how to go about meeting people who are deaf so I can meet people who I can relate to. In my...

Sometimes if I ask someone to repeat themselves, they'll just stare at me like I'm crazy without saying anything and I'm like "Okay....awkward." This happen to anyone else?

I live in a very small town, so I unfortunatley haven't met any deaf people. I took a sign language class at the blind and deaf school near where I live, but ironically no one in it was deaf.

Sorry if I offended you with the term hearing impaired. I have been in the hearing world my whole life so I'm not really educated on deaf culture.

So, I'm hearing-impaired and my mother made me get a baha implant (hearing aid) when I was 8 years old. I didn't want it at all, but I guess she felt she was doing what was best for me. I'm 17 now and we are constantly arguing because I can't keep up with it and don't wear it while driving. She...