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This is untrue. I graduated from Texas A&M and took 5 1/2 years to do it. I changed my major after my sophmore year to secondary education. It was almost like requiring a double major b/c I had to have all of my biology requirements (my choosen teaching field) plus all the education...

AmyJ Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I have very carefully researched and considered all the manual coding options, and I really feel like ASL (or at least as ASL-like as my English-thinking brain will allow) is the best fit for our family. Since one of my long-term goals is that my girls...

I am just learning ASL and so I am not much help, but there is a book I saw at Barnes & Noble that was a handsign dictionary. You could look up signs by the handshape. I just glanced at it so I am not sure how easy it is to use or how thorough it is, but I am wanting to purchase it myself...

True that learning ASL does not mean one would learn to read, but a prerequisite for reading is an understanding of the idea of language, that words have meaning. If a child has no access to spoken languge because he is deaf and is not given access to a visual language he can access(ASL), then...

Thanks so much for all the discussion. To try to answer some of the questions, we are in a mainstream private pre-school right now since she is only 4 YO. Our school district is required by law to provide her services, but we have the right to dual enrollment (private pre-school/public services)...

I have a few questions for those that have some degree of hearing loss (either from birth/early childhood or aquired later) but have residual hearing. Do you use ASL? Why or why not? If you do not, would it change your position if you had been given the opportunity to learn ASL as a child...

I am a HOH mom with 2 HOH daughters (and 2 kids with selective hearing, LOL!). Welcome! I don't know of a forum specifically for D/HOH kids but I am involved with a parent support group called Hands & Voices. There are state chapters that might be able to put you in touch with others in your...

I was born and raised in Texas! I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area now, where I was born & raised, but I spent some time in College Station (at A&M, Whoop!) and in Conroe, down by Houston. I love Austin and would love to live in the Hill Country, except all my family is in D/FW. Some day maybe!

A friend of mine is going back to college using the tuition waiver program. She wears a HA in one ear and has a CI in the other. I was told by a DARS person I would qualify for tuition waiver if I decided to go back and I have a sloping moderate to profound bilateral loss. I wear aids in both...

I just recently purchased my second set of hearing aids. My father also had trouble hearing and always refused to do anything about it. He did finally agree to have his hearing checked when I got my new aids and offered him my old ones. My dad knew he had toruble hearing but balked at the cost...

My first aids were ugly beige and when I found out that there were color options (well after I had been wearing them for a while) I was pretty ticked at my audi! I hate that she assumed I would want boring, ugly beige. I was in my mid-30's when I first started wearing aids's and I would much...

I don't have any experience with Phonak but I have Epoq XW's. I loved them so much I put my two daughters in Epoqs also! I wore Epoq Tego Pros before getting these so Oticon is the only manufacturer I have dealt with, but I have been very pleased. Epoq or Phonak? I love my Epoqs! Epoq V, W...