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There are plenty of Hohers here ... don't be discouraged. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to chat privately.

Most schools for the deaf will now accept students with any amount of hearing loss. I know many who also will accept hearing student who "would benefit from an ASL Bi-Bi learning environment" (typically this means hearing children who have speech/language issues making oral communication...

We just said the same thing. I just elaborated for clarity. A '2 way VCO' would be both parties speaking their conversation.

You might not appreciate the definition, but it doesn't make it any less correct. **shrug** "VCO" is short for "Voice/sound carried over a phone line". A 2 way VCO phone call by definition is a phone call in which (only) sound is both sent and received. By extension - it's a "normal...

Do you mean do you have to use proper grammar in ASL? Ummm - Do you have to use proper grammar in English, French, German, Italian etc ? ASL is a language, and just like any proper language it has grammar and sentence structures that need to be adhered to for the language to make sense.

I'm confused - a "2 way VCO" means "two way voice carry over", which would just be a normal hearing phone call.

Oh boy, he's back....

Many are - although most of the time it's not explicit. Keep in mind that many of us have witnessed it first hand, which is why we asked. HAs certainly help me hear noise, but without a doubt there's no way that HAs alone would have made my university classes accessible to me (I tried...

Bebonang - unless she's repeatedly signing it wrong, she's not signing shame/ashamed etc ... "Shame" (or the concept) also doesn't fit with the lyrics there...

My surgeries weren't for infection or fluid, (once I had tubes, but I'm not counting that as a "surgery"). The two surgeries I had were to remove bone and cartilage - even post surgery, I have very narrow ear canals, so actually, I do understand what that type of HL is like.

No it's not ashamed ... I'm trying to think of a good English meaning for it - in the video she's using it as a gloss for "pain" - more specifically meaning "experiencing physical and emotional pain/heartache etc." I can't think of a good English word for it though - maybe Reba will have a...

You might want to look into Captel instead of VRS.

Isn't it also true that in most cases with atresia/microtia that the SSD is primarily conductive in nature? (there may be some SNHL, but mostly it's conductive). Most people with congential or truama induced SSD have primarily SNHL - which makes it a very different overall scenario. (CHL...

Locally, I've never seen it, perhaps it's regional.

Because of the nature of most types of unilateral deafness/SSD almost ALL of us are "at high risk" for progressive and bilateral HL... it's a fairly standard situation. I was born SSD, then had mild flux loss on my "hearing side", then mild/moderate etc. (it's now moderate, with some "severe...

It takes time to get a Name Sign - and not everyone gets one. It's important to understand that it's not a "must have" thing. There are plenty of Deaf people who are immersed in the Deaf World and don't have a name sign - they may have a stylized way of fingerspelling their name, but not a...

The OP pretty much stated they were all hearing - by saying they'd looked into baby signs as a way to ease the terrible twos. If the OP's daughter is actually Hoh or deaf then of course a more proper, immersive language model and support system for the family are absolutely needed.

In Canada we have a lot of bilingual and multilingual families, including my own. In order for the "only using one language" idea to work you need to be fluent in the language - so I really wouldn't worry about using that method. What I'd suggest (and what I've done with my hearing nieces, who...

Hoichi - she has BAHAs, not CIs. They're totally different things.

Just so you know, you can now go into Netflix preferences and change the colour of the captions, font as well as backgrounds :) I have to say that the captioning while not perfect IS getting significantly better than it was even 6 months ago. It's certainly a lot better than most of the over...