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I IM'd SnapVRS today to ask my question - they're just doing a gradual rollout. I guess that's not surprising, I just wasn't sure.

Navyman: are you part of a beta group? I just filled out an app on Monday for an Ojo, but the "application complete" page said that they were only going out to a small group of users, and all other applications were going to be on hold for a while. It wasn't clear to me whether there is a...

I actually just IM'd SnapVRS on Friday to ask about this, and they said that's not the case - you can call out to VP-200 andVP-100 phones, and you can use other VRS services. I don't know whether that means they've got a gateway server that everything is proxied through, or if it means the Ojo...

I've seen a few "Cues on Tap" events in various parts of they country analogous to silent suppers, but the population size doesn't seem like it could support very many of them. I suspect, though, that it has more to do with the cultural reaction to cueing. Cueing is associated in many...

This raises a question I've been wondering about for a while. Do any of the VRS companies do a combination HCO/VCO service, something like Captel but with VPs?

I could be wrong, but I've interacted with cuers in that area, and I'm pretty sure there's no CS center sponsored by MIT. There's a small student group that has hosted at least one workshop, but that's it.I I also googled around a bit for "MIT websites mentioning cued speech, and they're all...

That would depend on the hearing aid she wears, but she should ask her audiologist about a DAI - direct audio input - cable.

MIT has a huge cued speech program? Not really ... we have one grad student who cues, and quite a few people (hearing) in his dept have learned, but I haven't seen any sign of a CS program in the sense of research.

If you're comfortable with software hackery, you might want to look at Mister House. (I think it's at misterhouse.sourceforge.net, but I'm not sure). It's a set of perl scripts to allow you to control an X10 network from your computer. Possibly more general than that, actually, but I know it...

Good luck Michelle! I just had my surgery two weeks ago, and August 8th is when I get it turned on.

I would be very surprised if it couldn't be turned off - it's got to be recharged somehow, and it's probably got to be programmed somehow, so it must have some way of communicating with a controller outside the body. But yeah, adjusting to hearing that couldn't be turned off ... I don't know...

You could look at the influences of Youtube (well, the easy availability of editing and distribution channels) on ASL storytelling.

I've met quite a few - I'll be the 3rd CIer at my university, and there's only for deaf/HOH there, so we know each other (not well, but we recognize each other). And in the area's deaf college students' group, I'd guess almost half have CIs. I guess I'm lucky - it was nice to have some idea of...

Sweet! Boult's iTunes link leads to about 100 different surgical videos. Today's isn't up yet, as he said, but there is one from 6/25 that shows a cochlear implantation. Possibly Dr. B's previous videoed surgery? Man, I'm going nuts downloading these - call me crazy, but I love this kind of...

In that case, I'll leave it be - I'm not going to interfere with their right to control their IP if it's available for use. Thanks, Boult.

My computer doesn't like Real Player (neither do I, but that's a rant for another time). I'm hoping I can grab it after the webcast is done, at which point I'll probably convert it to a nicer format. If anyone wants a copy, let me know.

R2D2 and Hear Again are right. Usually, when people express hearing loss as a percentage, they're doing one of two things: either they're using the dB as a percentage (which is inaccurate, but I've seen it happen a lot) or they're usiing it as a way of saying, "I'm very deaf", "I'm not very...

Also (and I may have posted this upthread), sometimes it's a challenge: "you're not really deaf/HOH". Sadly, I've been asked about my speech in this context by ENTs more than once. (One time was particularly amusing - a new ENT in Student Health told me that with speech like mine, there was...

Do you notice an improvement when you're not being stimulated? I.e., when you sleep (assuming you take your CI off at night), is the tinnitus less bothersome than it was pre-implant? *crosses his fingers*

Your chair won't interfere with your CI. I'm also an electric wheelchair user (albeit, scooter, not a powerchair), and I'm getting my CI activated in 2 weeks.