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For a public trial, do I (or any deaf person) have the right to an interpreter if it's not my case? That is, I want to show support for a friend and be at their trial, but I don't know if I'm entitled to interpreting services, especially since I'd probably be just one of several people there to...

You may have more options in terms of programming and maintenance and whatnot with a BTE than an ITC. Just a thought - something to discuss with your audi! You're in an interesting position of having had normal hearing most of your life; I imagine that could make getting hearing aids a bit...

I've been reading some academic papers about handshapes recently. What I've read suggests that there are 56-ish handshapes, and 40 of them are 'commonly used'. (So I assume that means the other 16ish are only used for a few things.) For comparison's sake, native hearing speakers of English...

Sound is just vibrating air; when a vibrator moves back and forth quickly (or especially when it moves a membrane like the top of your mattress), it sets up a vibration in the air. So unfortunately, any vibrator is going to make some noise. (Much less than a regular alarm clock, but still...

I use CART full time at school, so this is something I'm very familiar with. And I've used it both with residual (and now implanted) hearing, and with no auditory input whatsoever. There's a few things you seem to be missing that may be specific to the way your school does CART, but are not...

Not a live one, true, but there's a fundamental difference between a system that is verbatim, or nearly so (like CART) and one that is inherently based on summarizing, abbreviating, and making choices about what information the user does and doesn't get (like Cprint and Typewell). That's a far...

I do this to stabilize my wrist. (Usually I'm holding my dominant-side elbow with my other hand, but sometimes I'll hold the wrist.) I don't do it most of the time, but if I have a word that is going to be hard to read - it's long, or an uncommon word - or if I'm having a lot of hand pain...

CPrint is similar to Typewell, and both of those are *very* different from CART. Nothing to do with paper, either - all of these systems are computer-based.

So, I agree that there's no reason not to take off one's CI now and then (although the more it's off while I'm awake, the less I get from it when it's on). However, it's worth pointing out that it's absolutely possibly to sleep with your CI on without damaging it! Other than my CI not staying...

Yep, it's In the Land of the Deaf (or at least, I also remember it as that).

Trialing hearing aids is a good idea, I think. IANAA, but perhaps your loss is not quite bad enough yet to benefit from aids, in the audiologist's opinion? That is, you *could* use a boost in the high frequencies, but the benefits of doing so don't yet outweigh the cost of a decreased SNR...

Unless I'm misreading the article, these are college kids. That's a very different situation - students shouldn't have to pick a college based on the accommodations offered.

That's what I tell myself (of course, it also might have something to do with the fact that it just looks cool!), but at a place I temp-worked recently, I'd been there a month when someone alluded to my "bluetooth headset". :facepalm: Edit: My HA is silver with translucent blue parts; my CI has...

I've had a CI for about 6 months now, and it's working fantastically for me. However, I still use CART in school, and I still use ASL interpreting services elsewhere. I know a lot of CI users who use those, or who still use cued speech transliteration. So, it depends a lot on (a) how well the...

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The expectations of society are the primary limiting factor for any disabled person; for some, impairments are also a limiting factor (though they are almost always entangled with the fact that society is not entirely accepting of people with disabilities). My post at 5:51 on 2/12 is the...

Aleser stated exactly what I meant. Grummer, I'm very much aware of the distinction between impairment and disability, so let me restate what I said in the most exact way I possibly can: people who are generally labeled as 'disabled' by society, but are not deaf, are not limited by that label...

Grummer, you *completly* misread my comment. I'm saying the two setups are quite similar, and yet you have posts like jasin's that put down people who ID as disabled in order to lift up deafness. Which perpetuates existing stigmas surrounding disability, and is unnecessary.

I believe it's more like ~100,000 people have been implanted. Somewhere in that order of magnitude.

Disability doesn't stop disabled people from functioning physically or mentally any more than deafness stops Deaf people from communicating. As someone who grew up with a disability, and became deaf later, it's very irritating - and offensive - when people talk about disability as if it can't...