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I saw a blog by a deafblind guy (with Usher's, I think) a few months ago who had somehow taught himself to recognise palantype directly - that is, he had the provider do their typing thing right on his hand(s). As you might imagine, the word has stuck in my mind ever since. :bowdown: I can...

Joshy: I know you're from NZ and not the UK, but NZ-English tens to be closer to UK-English than US-English - the British call it "palantype", so perhaps it goes by the same name in New Zealand.

Colorful HA, colorful CI. But then, my hair is not, uh, hair-colored. Still, even when my hair was au natural, I wore brightly colored hearing aids. (The colorful molds, though, I haven't. Thought about it, but even as a programmer, there's only so far I can push this 'professionalism' thing.)

Chris: I'm familiar with the other registers, but what makes Frozen distinct from Formal?

The reviewer, Allison Kaftan, was born Deaf and grew up cueing. CUEDSPEECH.org > About NCSA > About NCSA > Board of Directors > Regional Directors > Allison Kaftan YouTube - Using ASL to discuss Cued Speech

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc? From the rest of her review, it looks like the problems were not just linguistic, but imaginative as well. Perhaps he's just not a very good writer, for the same reasons that most people aren't good writers. Sturgeon's Law and all that.

Ghetto, except that it's way better - same sound quality (as far as I can tell, anyway) and wireless. My roommate is incredibly jealous - wireless headphones for hearing people are fairly pricey. Not that my FM wasn't, but I needed it for other reasons, and the music is just a nice side...

And not just accommodations, either - I think a that identifying as disabled is an empowering thing for a lot of people with disabilities. Taking ownership of it, sort of thing. I know people who do prefer PFL, but I think that using euphemistic language can send the message that, hey, for all...

Oh, and I wanted to comment on the "wheelchair bound" thing. The reason that ost of us don't like that term is because it's inaccurate; I've heard people use the term "wheelchair freed", albeit satirically. Many wheelchair users can leave their chairs if necessary (which has occasionally...

I've described myself as HOH for a long time, and in the last year or so have started to mix "HOH" and "deaf". I think there are times when it would be useful to have a catch-all term like hearing impaired; in spite of the cultural and sensory differences between the groups, we have a lot in...

If you're looking for a new (smaller) laptop, the Thinkpads are really nice, and I believe some of them are quite small. They're pretty solid-feeling machiness, too, they hold up well with use. They used to be made by IBM, but a company called Lenovo bought them. Sony also makes a very thin...

I wish my audis did this! I usually squeeze in tight and watch over their shoulder, but my wheelchair is large enough that it tends to get a bit too close for comfort.

I think "audism" is still a more proper term for internal (deaf-deaf) or reverse (deaf against hearing) discrimination based on hearing status. Compare with racism or sexism, which are used to mean both "majority against minority" discrimination, "minority against majority", and "minority...

I think that's called an SRT test. The word test I'm thinking of it=s one where you don't know what words might be on the test.

I want to touch on this topic of how well you hear - I think you said you had about 90-100 dB in each ear? I just got implanted this summer. In the testing we'd done before, I think I was at 90-ish in one ear and 100 in another (it's too late to go digging through my records to check, but...

My school does that, actually, and I think it's not a bad idea. They used to have students deliver this packet of very boilerplate administrative-like stuff that wasn't all that helpful (I used to pitch it as a "keep this on file, but asking me is probably easier than reading it" document, and...

He probably thought it was a recording device of some sort - I've run into that misconception before.

Hey vallee - I also got activated August 8th.

Except that it is a factor in the success rate. If we want to have an honest conversation about when implants work or don't work, and why, we need to acknowledge it when they fail. And for all intents and purposes, this is not a successful CI. It's useful to distinguish *why* an implant...