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aaaaaaaaah i got bumped to the top of the wait list!!! i got a call from the audiologist today, and they told me I can get my CI sometime this summer, between may and august...! i was so happy when I found out. after my hearing test last week they found out my hearing had dropped another 5 dB or...

i sometimes have friends telling me different versions of situations we experienced that i missed out on because i didn't hear something going on. for instance (although this has never happened in particular), i'm busy doing something attentively, and someone calls me from behind and starts...

IMO, this question isn't any different from asking about any teacher of any language. yeah, i think a hearing person can teach ASL and like any other teacher of any other language, fluency would be essential. i think that if the course involved teaching about Deaf Culture, though, there should...

good point...!! :giggle:

i'm a full time art student majoring in Animation, but i have a job flipping burgers at an A&W. joy of joys! gainful employment!!

that IS interesting... weird... but interesting...

absolutely no different than hearing people. i never took drivers ed, it's not a requirement or anything where i live and costs a lot of extra unnecessary money. my mom taught me how to drive. i just told the man giving me the drivers test that i was deaf and he would have to speak clearly, and...

i wish people would subtitle their Vlogs. just keep in mind that a lot of hearing, hard-of-hearing, and deaf people (like myself) who have learnt enough ASL to converse but are still not fluent or completely accustomed to visual language have a hard time following people's Vlogs. our HOH friends...

i actually just use total communication most of the time. So would that be more like PSE?

i've got a 105 dB loss on my "HOH side" and an 85 dB loss on my "deaf side". kind of backwards, yeah, but what I mean is that my good ear is the one with the loss that is technically greater, but I have better speech discrimination in that ear. i listen to my ipod on my left ear with the 105 dB...

i completely agree!! i think there's already a thread on this though New to closed captioning - what the hey???

i've experienced music as a hearing person and with a hearing aid and there hasn't been much difference for me at all, except for being able to understand the lyrics.. thats the one thing that bothers me!

i never thought of that. I've always seen the capitalization of "deaf" as a way to summarize a concept. when a person says they are Deaf, they are saying that they are a member of deaf culture and communicate using American Sign Language. saying "Deaf" instead of dragging out that full sentence...

i have a hearing aid... but I'm wondering how different music is going to sound when I switch to a CI...! for Bohemian Rhapsody, try to see if you can somehow listen to just the piano version of it to get to learn the melody and such. there is a lot of harmony in some parts so i guess that's...

wow, great posts! thanks for all that information, it really helped i go to an audiologist at St. Paul's as well; I can't remember her name as i've only met her once, but it was she who told my mom who told me that the wait list was 18 months. one of the ENTs first told me it was 8 months...

When I first decided I'd get a CI just over a month ago, I was told there was an 8 month waiting list. A couple weeks after that when I went to the ENT, he told me the list was a year long. I just went for my hearing test and they say the wait list is now 18 months. I live in B.C., Canada - they...

as concerned as i am with deaf issues, i REALLY don't think that this is something significant enough to base one's vote upon.

yep I agree it seems like you're just trying to get people not to vote for Hillary now XD

I'm referring to "commerical" which should be spelt "commercial". Edit: did anyone else check out the supplemental video clips that were posted on the third link? Pepsi USA - Bob's House there are a few of them: the Making of Bob's House, History of the Huddle, Hot Dog, Clam Chowder, and...

did anyone notice my favourite part, the best myth that the commercial dispels...?? THE DEAF MAN IS DRIVING A CAR. i can't tell you how many people i've shocked when they discovered that i am licensed and fully capable of driving a flippin car. "deaf people can't drive, it's illegal"...