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In a similar situation we normally all drop into SSE with lipreading, fingerspelling, gesture... Sure, it's slower but it includes everyone. Like if you have a friend who natively speaks German and a friend who natively speaks English, if you all speak French as a second language then that's the...

I've always had difficulty with this one, with the particular type of loss I have, and particularly now I have frequency transposition, if I had to choose between someone actually genuinely whispering and someone talking in a low voice I'd pick the whisper every time. It's clear, it carries, the...

I find it interesting that lots of people are saying the line falls at whether or not you can use the phone. The cookie-biter then becomes quite an anomaly. The way that voices are compressed for the telephone just so happens to fall into that bad frequency zone for most with cookie-bite loss...

And most students whose native language is Spanish are, by this point in their school career, sufficiently proficient in English that they could take the test in English, but may nominate for preference to take it in Spanish. If you can read English but prefer ASL you are not being given...

The terms "legally blind" and "legally deaf" make us laugh in the UK. It implies there is such a thing as going illegally blind! So much better (though longer) is "Blind for legal purposes" We have two legally defined categories just now, VI (used to be parially sighted) and SVI (used to be...

How true! I tell people to imagine they are doing a crossword. I get bits and pieces of the puzzle, and if it's close quarters with a familiar person on a known and established topic then that's a lot like doing a junior crossword. If it's an unfamiliar person and I'm not sure what the topic of...

I am sure this has been done but I haven't seen the thread if it has. I hate, hate, hate the term "hard of hearing". Why? Not so sure. Maybe because it seems so weird, I use a wheelchair but I am not described as "hard of walking" - it seems such an odd way to describe it. Another reason is that...

Well, a parallel situation is a friend of mine with a deaf autistic son, he was placed in a Deaf school but he didn't get on there because he was the only child who had additional needs other than being deaf. He wasn't making friends or fitting in in a class of intellectually and behaviourally...

Wow, instructions, I'm jealous! They told me they'd given me an instruction booklet when I got mine, but I was curious why it was sealed inside a brown envelope. I found out why when I got back to my car and opened it, the instructions were for how to put a hearing aid into your ear, remove it...

Thanks, I'll ask about that on mine, I have an appointment this afternoon where the Siemens rep is to be in attendance also to try to sort out my problems. Are they actually off, as in not drawing any power at all, or just mic-off? I already have a mic-off position, but when I put them off at...

That is the bit that bothers me - what are they saying about the professionalism of interpreting services? I've had similar objections raised regards amenuensis (verbal to written transcribing services for blind students) because they think for some reason you will help them with it. Why would...

I can't figure out why Phonak seems to be the last streamer device that still relies upon things around your neck. That is the worst thing about all the previous alternatives, loop systems, body-worn receviers, all those things we have been steadily moving away from, and now the "round the neck"...

I can't figure out why Phonak seems to be the last streamer device that still relies upon things around your neck. That is the worst thing about all the previous alternatives, loop systems, body-worn receviers, all those things we have been steadily moving away from, and now the "round the neck"...

Bit of a combination. Usually one which meets all my needs is only one make or model anyway, for example I need a hearing aid which can be turned on and off without removing the audioshoe, which as far as I am aware restricts me to Phonak brand only. I do read about what I think will suit, but...

Indeed, I have seen many a SP/UP hearing aid for sale second hand from some poor person who was made to purchase a pair simply to prove they didn't work in order to progress to a CI! Obviously I see the logic in doing this, but it's also a huge burden on people who don't have any coverage for...

Personally I'd wait because you say he seems pretty responsive to spoken language just now. The bit that deaf & hoh kids miss out on is "incidental language" all that overhearing of things that hearing children get when people aren't talking directly to them, but words are happening in their...

Which of my pictures does it match? Sorry they are a bit blurry, if you have a volume control on it then it's a MicroP, if not then it's an M, although it's technically possible to remove the volume control from the MicroP I don't imagine they would do. You can also tell from the spare...

No, I have that too, these are permanent physically damaged regions.

I can't entirely understand dead regions very well either, but it's along the lines of if you have an area with no hearing at all sometimes the neighbouring hair cells respond instead, giving you a false positive. Say they play an 8kHz sound, if you cannot hear at 8kHz but you have working hair...

Much depends on the quality of the technology as to whether 2 hearing aids will help with directionality. I have 2 Siemens aids which leave me hearing things in random places - I heard someone up a ladder with an angle grider and I was convinced the noise was in my purse! The Phonaks are much...