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Some places have classes where you learn some tips for lipreading/speech-reading. You can practice by speaking at the mirror, watching the shapes of words and try to become more familiar with them. You can ask someone to practice with you by speaking slowly and clearly and keeping...

Thanks Reba. :) The one she used was more common for overall in this country, but most Deaf in my community use same sign as me, though I think many of them maybe learned it from me or my family using it. So they don't have any problems with it at all, it was just her finding the shock that...

Hmmm, this thread reminds me of something that happened few weeks ago. There was terp who asked me what one of my signs meant, so I told her, and she said that's wrong - just like terp did to the girlfriend mentioned in this thread. I said no it's not it's just different one. She told me I...

Ok, this will be a short thread! He's been found alive! :applause: They didn't say much yet, but he's alive and found already. Apearently an insight for the searchers, learning that to search effectively they needed to look extra carefully and make themselves visable, not just yell for him...

I haven't posted in ages (I've been really busy) but I just thought I'd come share this news item from here in New Zealand. I sure hope they find him soon... link to article posted below Search underway for deaf man A search is underway for a deaf man lost in a forest area north of...

Does LOTR count as American still there? All we keep hearing about here in NZ is that the American's think it's a foreign film, because it was made in New Zealand, with New Zealand Director (Peter Jackson, who went to the same primary school that I did! :lol:), and New Zealand crew, extras...

A lot of this movie was filmed in Taranaki, New Zealand, where I live! There is a village or camp or something, in the movie that is actually a cricket ground in the park in the middle of town right next door to my daughter's kindergarten! :) I met Billy while he was here filming and he was...

Another one to add: Turi -- Maori word for deaf. :) (Maori are the indiginous people of New Zealand, where I live.)

No, it depends on the type of Hep. My Grandad had one of them when he was in his 40's, but recovered completely, and didn't pass away (not of hep) till he was almost 90! Only some are fatal. I have autoimmune Hep, but it's not bad (and this type is NOT contagious!), and it's not fatal if you...

Hi ideafspy, I know you already got answers to this now, but I just thought I'd add that I worked as a waitress and also bartender a few years ago, when I first started in my photography career, while I still needed the extra money. Actually I was better behind the bar than most of the other...

Thank you Levonian, that was much more like your usual articulate, good sense posts. :) Thank you for clarifying what you really mean. :) Maybe I held your words to high expectations because you usually post so eloquently, and with fascinating insights. You can see why the emotive issues in...

Ofc blind people can dream! :) The main part of dreams is usually the emotional component, or thoughts etc, the preceptions of senses like visual or sound is kind of secondary to the meaning or experience being felt in the dream state. Some blind people may see some things in dream from...

Woah, I take it Y means me? And Levonian is serious that it is ALL men? You really do believe that literally ALL men will think it funny to laugh at woman with implants, Levonian, & Y? All? No, maybe some don't think and would hurt woman with cancer like my aunt, but my uncle wouldn't...

You can breast feed with them if they're done right... Pamela Anderson-Lee breast fed both of her gorgeous sons with her implants. There is story I read of her screaming with excitment and telling Tommy "They work! They work!" All happy about being able to feed her first baby! As for me...

Yes, Richard Pierce was the first in the world to make a manned, powered, controled flight, it was in New Zealand, but because New Zealand was so isolated, the rest of the world didn't hear about it, until after the wright brothers flew, then when they heard that they weren't first at all, the...

1. What color are your kitchen plates? Blue & White, Green & White, Multi-Coloured & White. 2. What book are you reading now? Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie, Over My Dead Body - June opie, The Uncle's Story - Witi Ihimaera, America on six bullets a day - Raybon Kan. 3. What picture is on...

Nah, I dissagree totally! LOL! Sorry VamPyroX, but I don't see logic in that, to my mind, so I'm going to dissagree... life doesn't usually hand everyone out some balance of things to work with... I've met plenty of beautiful people who are just genetically blessed, they're not vain and...

I wish I could think of something to post in this thread! :P

I do both. I lipread very well unless it's man with too much facial hair, or person moving head about like they talking to fly buzzing round their head, or unless it's dark! LOL! I talk really well, but I learned to talk before I became deaf. It can make it lot easier if you remember...

Oh, cute thread! I don't think I know anyone well enough to pick a song for them yet though, I need to come here more often. Keep going... they're cool to read! :)