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These organizations help to get hearing aids to the needy - Vocational Rehabilitation center in your area if you are employed, or the locale Lions, or throughhttp://www.audientalliance.org/

You may benefit by seeking out the Vocational Rehabilitation center in your area if you are employed, or the locale Lions, or through http://www.audientalliance.org/

a few things here. If you are employed the Vocational Rehabilitation Department may help you to get new hearing aids. The other choice is the Lion's Club. Also there is a website for help for low income people Audient. http://www.audientalliance.org/ On a side note -- sometimes...

Thanks for the link... I will check it out since I am job hunting again.

Good valid points. Is it really necessary to match the rest of the world or can be be our own unique person? When searching for work, not hearing might cause potential employers to reject you and not even give you a chance to prove you can do the job! Bias exist. So we are between a rock...

Volunteering with the deaf community will really help you to learn. Even among the signers there are different techniques for some things. I would really call the deaf society or services for the deaf for recommendations to learn ASL. I am surprised but not a whole lot, that no one made any...

I have a high frequency deafness. Fitting in is a horrible problem. Teachers had attitudes. I told them I could not hear high frequency sounds. I was considered dumb -- yet I scored way above average in math when I tested. I never had the chance to learn ASL or make friends in the deaf...

Ah ha... so they do have some devices to help us. Thanks for sharing this info DeafDucky! I will check that reply.

That would really help to prevent a lot of those stupid accidents that we read about. I wonder what it would cost or take to get that done in every city.

Thank you Reba, so this issue is not really limited to my deafness at all. I thought that my high frequency deafness was the reason I could not discern what direction the sound was coming from. The lights do work to clue me in just as they do for you.

I already do that... but the issue really is one of not hearing the sirens... and seeking some sort of techy aid to help discern the directions before viewing the vehicles.

Rear view mirrors work fine, but sometimes the vehicle is not quickly viewable from the rear mirror.

Safe Driving is important. What products are available to help the deaf or hearing impaired to know when a siren is going on while driving? Specific -- to alert us where to look and to pull over if needed. This is for Police, Fire, and Emergency Vehicles. Sometimes they pull up and I really...

I would be interested in knowing what these devices are to help us 'hear' the sirens when they go off. As a driver, I think it is scary to not be able to know that there is an emergency vehicle coming up fast behind me or a police car speeding up to go past me. Please advise. I have never...

I am considering getting my ears pierced but I wear over the ear hearing aids. So do the pins in pierced earrings cause problems for wearers?

I am glad to make a difference where ever I am. I like to help people and I like to do things that benefit my employers and are not expected. So I guess you could say my accomplishments are leaving a place or a time in better shape than it was. I have written instructions for new hires and...

Oh, on another note, one of the deaf guys that went to the same school system was sexually abused by his mother. That might or might not have been because of his deafness. He was always made fun of and mocked by many at school.