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May be repetitious Food stamps mean you don't have the income to support yourself (SSI). SSDI is disability insurance and as people have said, you must be declared legally disabled and have been working for a specific number of quarters - this info is available somewhere on the internet - do...

First post didn't make it. What's the abutment - no bone anchored titanium? You're right to be careful. I turned down a well-known and respected NYC ENT who said I was a BAHA candidate. I showed him my bone conduction scores and said when my loss gets slightly worse, it will render BAHA...

Sorry, one more question Can you tell me what your bone conductive scores look like at say 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 mgH (frequencies)? You're profoundly deaf - I get that. But BAHA itself was made for people with reasonable bone conduction scores. Just want to make sure you're not being...

Translate "abutment free" - I studied/researched BAHA I looked into BAHA (not abutment free and azzzume that means the titanium anchor doesn't stick out from your head?) within the last 12 years. In 2008, I was tested and the specialist in NYC came in with my audiology results and...

Volunteer work and an assoc. for latent deaf Seattle used to be a home to both IBM and Microsoft (and what's left of Starbucks). Sorry you're lonely. I do understand as I am latent deaf as well. I found this website earlier today and emailed the contact for my area. Welcome to ALDA...

I suppose I can consider myself a senior citizen (or I'm close enough). I've been hearing-impaired w/changing losses (moderate-to-severe, severe, severe-to-profound, profound) and types - bone conduction was fine for a long time, now it is gone and I am both (sensori-neural). I can no longer...