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Responding to some posts Just an anecdote: I am a journalist, HOH and learning sign. I've recently just came into the deaf community at all, and was taught only oral and spent 12 years in speech therapy. I can read lips across a room because of it...but that's background. This is in...

Ha! I did that too. I lost both of them in the lake one summer at camp and of course it was sleepover camp with two weeks left. Needless to say, I had to go a week without them till my parents could get spares. I don't know which ear you use for the phone, but you may want to ask for a phone...

Probably both because she learned to speak, and she learned to communicate through oral, written and through hands. I spent 12 years in speech therapy to learn how to communicate well. I used to stutter, lisp, miss sounds and if I had my aids out, forget it. Not once, ever, was I introduced to...

I would have to say be taught in both approaches. I am HOH - not quite deaf, not quite hearing. I can hear without my aids, but it is indistinguishable unless you are very close. I was heavily immersed into the hearing world except for one year at a school for the deaf, which I still have vivid...

The DVD...........does not have captions. I don't have cable.

No captioning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn Nickelodion.

www.myspace.com/saveourdeafschools I know it's my space, but do it anyway please. Not mine...just stumbled across it. a

I am hard of hearing, am people are surprised to learn it because I get the same thing - oh, you speak so well. Well, yeah, 12 years of speech therapy will do that. I also let it roll off because I know it's ignorance with the intentions of being a compliment.

You are always bi I think, it is just what you prefer at a certain point in your life. You may have a stronger preference for women, but even if the attraction to men is few and far bewteen, I'd say you're bi. I'm definitely bi, though I married a man, but he knew when we go together from the...

I've never had a problem, but then I think it's easier for women to come out as bi anyway. Somehow I've also dated a lot of bi men, and am married to one as well, which is interesting to say the least...

I understand the amplify everything. If there's a lot of background noise, like in a club or something, I am doomed. My hearing is about 50 percent, and hasn't gotten worse since I was little - yet. I dk if it will be, though I imagine old age won't be kind to me in that regard. Have you tried...

Has anyone here gone through a test for a three-year-old? I'm HOH, and we have concerns our son might have a mild hearing loss because he is having speech problems and when I say a word he repeats what he hears, but if I repeat it directly in his ear, he gets it better. It seems that he hears...

Try it part-time, or online if you can do it, which will help. Have all the classes like on Tu/Th so it's only two days a week or something. I am out of college now, but work full time now that my boy is three. School is good for him, though if you can hold off until about one, I'd personally...

That is amazing enterprise journalism. I work for a newspaper, and that's incredible. A

Thank you!

Thanks for the welcome, though I'm not a Georgia native. NAtive Floridian who defected to find a better quality of life. A

I have worn hearing aids since I was three, so they are a part of me, but most people don't even notice, especially if you get the ones that go in the ear and not behind the ear. If you speak well, they will never notice, and if they do, so what? Ignorance is everywhere. I know I shock people on...

I don't really know since I'm adopted, though I do know my parents didn't really know till I was three. I dk if it happened then or what. I did have a lot of ear infections, but my dad suspects my birthmom had rubella and didn't know it. A

It's a strange journey into the world of deaf. I am HOH, but was mainstreamed my entire life. I even work as a journalist, which I really need my hearing for, and I've always worked to overcome it, but never immersed myself in the deaf world. At 30, I'm just looking at that aspect and learning...

I'll be there with my husband and little boy. A