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I agree with deafskeptic, sounds like you need to go to the hospital. Sent you a PM. In the past I've gone to a few HLAA meetings that talk about how to discuss communication needs with the hospital and I can post about that later. Its handy info to know -- but for now, I would just go to...

Hope you're OK Sunny.

Wow, I'm really surprised that NYC has so few options. What about contacting the Deaf owned interpreting service in NYC and see if they can hook you up with a Deaf tutor instead?

Ahhh. :hmm:

I'm glad you don't need the CI yet and I hope your condition progresses very slowly. I just mentioned what I mentioned about the two people I know so you could get an idea of what stage they are at physically. At this point they are both pretty much blind also. They are also both very...

Re Jillio, Rebeccaj and Dogmom's posts re dysfunctional and functional families -- I'm beginning to wonder what the likely ratio is. How many folks belong to functional families and how many belong to dysfunctional? I suspect that most families are a combo of each. But who gets to decide?

:hug: back Rebecca. I'm so sorry you had to go through this. I am glad that you had your aunt and uncle though in your life. Are they still around? Based on what I remember your posting about them -- they seem like warm caring people with common sense. A nice combo!

My mom is in the great beyond also. So who knows, perhaps they are hanging out with each other. :P Well, its been a long time since I've read anything about this. Here's one way it makes sense to me. Do you know how on the cop shows they show the "good cop/bad cop" routine? Both...

BB, I know two people with Usher's, I don't know which kind though. They both got cochlear implants and fortunately for them the CIs were sucessful. One of them is following information about stem cell therapy for blindness very closely. If you would like to e-mail them about it, I'm...

But, I thought you were unbannable? :P

Oh, its not too personal, that's what user ids are for. :) The main way my experience affected me was I felt it cut me off from people and from knowing many things that people find out about just by overhearing. When I was about 3 or 4 I had my situation confused with being the youngest...

:ty: Great article!

I think it is likely for many oral dhh kids that some people keep the language simple when speaking with them to increase the odds that they will hear it correctly. On one level that works, but it certainly isn't great for vocabulary acquisition or getting into the more sophisticated and fun...

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Yes. I heard this a long time ago so it may no longer be true -- but what I heard was that almost everyone who lives in the Middle East believes that every single American with, oh, maybe one or two exceptions, is extremely wealthy. :laugh2: I suspect that is probably why he is focusing on...

It sounds like the best thing to do. Isn't it important for people who teach languages to be able to speak clearly and even slowly? I think even if you were hearing you would probably have to let her go. I agree with Derek -- this is purely a business move, not personal.

:ty: , Deafbajagal. I downloaded the file to make sure that I can always refer to it. It's a little over my head for now, but hopefully not for long! :)

You learned how to speak so many languages! You must be a genius! I agree with Audio Fuzzy -- maybe you will be able to hear a different tutor better. I have a steeply sloping hearing loss (click on my audiogram -- link is in my signature) -- that means I can hear some men with very deep...

Ah, what TXgolfer didn't tell you is that his finger is attached to the hand that holds the whip. :whip:

Oh, I hope your optimism is catching! :)