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Actually, it could be considered medical - as a prosthetic.

The tube length does actually affect the quality of the acoustics, something to do with harmonics, I think.

I'm from the land of the "tall poppy syndrome" - so no idea about "gifted" deaf people. Tall poppies tend to be ostracized, anyway.

I think in Australia it is different. In Australia, the damage due to self defense has to be proportional to the damage you were at risk of in attack. In other words, if you hit someone with a baseball bat while they're breaking and entering, then they can sue you. If, however, they're...

I explained that lipreading is *seriously hard*, however, if you can hear even just a *tiny* bit of what they are saying, it is much easier. I mean, the difference between "Elephant shoes" and "I love you" is virtually identical, consider that!

I skipped forward to the relevant section, and looked at it once. I *was* curious, then I closed it without seeing the end - even 20 seconds is really boring!

Most people I have met who are profoundly deaf do seem to have some minimal amount of hearing. I'm also profoundly deaf, however I have no residual hearing at all - all the fluid in my cochlea's have calcified - that is, turned to bone, and I don't remember ever hearing a "natural sound" in...

A better way to say that is: A programmer understands only 10 things: One or Zero.

So true. :(

Even if the person had a CI and their hearing was completely restored, I don't think they would become any less a part of the deaf community unless they chose to stop using sign languange and instead preferred to mix with the hearing communities, given a choice. This is like asking "Are...

She seems to be explaining about something entirely different, one phrase is "And he tried to..." Of course, she could've said something totally different. That's the beauty of lipreading... They really could be saying anything! I hate lipreading, anyway. See, with lipreading, you have to...

I didn't care when people looked at my CI stuff, however, I did notice that when I started uni, many people would look at them and automatically assume "Uh oh... Dumb person here", and when I covered them with my hair, I noticed that attitudes changed. It's annoying as heck that they would...

Hmm, not sure about BSL, but in Australia, "hearing" has a double-tap, so not identical to ASL's sign for "Deaf" - still was similar enough to get me confused when I was just starting to learn Auslan... Here, we sign "Deaf" with not one, but two fingers. :)

I rarely use "insanely fast fingerspelling", unless I've already "introduced" the word/name, and I haven't given it a classifier or "spot", then I use "insanely fast fingerspelling".

Well, then, surely they could choose from a myriad of other "labels" that don't necessarily refer to belonging to the Deaf community. Eg, "hearing impaired" (Just substantially so), or heck, even just "deaf" (Without making a fuss about the whole d/D issue, and certainly without referring to the...

So... Correct me if I'm wrong, but those who are "Hard of hearing" merely find hearing a bit difficult? This reminds me of the "Christian" I met many years ago, who was convinced that he was christian and all that - yet explicitly denied that Jesus was real! Doesn't mean that he was correct.

In which today's schools? What about "neither"? What if education has not substantially improved relative to how it used to be, but has not deteriorated either? (Although, that said, I consider that to be "worse" - but I am hesitant to claim that that would necessarily mean "much worse"...)

I don't think I was allowed to sign at that age, so such gestures would have been avoided! No, it was actual cued speech, my mum learnt it from an speech therapist or somewhere, I do remember seeing a book about it though... I do know that it is a different form to what is used in America, it...

Depending on which 'mode of thought' I am thinking in, I may or may not have a voice "narrator". Sometimes I have an "vocal narrator", especially when counting, however my thoughts are completely silent when I am doing computer programming - I just code, while "seeing" how the code should flow...

Let's take off a "very" there... I've got absolutely no residual hearing, either, not even when I can feel the headset vibrate... Not sure how loud they go, but I've never heard a real sound in waking memory, except for electrical stimulation, which doesn't count :)