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I know there are a lot of deaf adults in the forum, and was hoping you'd have some advice for a deaf teen who is going through a tough time in school? My daughter will be going to high school next year. She has a CI, but because of a malformed cochlea, it isn't ideal, so she does use an...

Hi! What kind of music classes did you take in school to fulfill the music requirement? The description for my daughter's music class next year has me concerned "...students will develop critical listening skills and empathy by performing for each other..." and I feel that we are now getting...

Hi! We currently watch Netflix streamed through an Xbox, and have never run across a single movie/tv show that hasn't been captioned. However, that is the kid's tv, and we want to be able to stream to our tv in the living room, so I am looking to see what I can use to do so. My brother gave...

Does anyone here that learned a foreign language in middle school/high school use an interpreter in school? My daughter uses an interpreter and I was wondering how interpreting work for that class? It's not likely the interpreter is going to know all the languages they sample (they do 3 over...

Does anyone have an XBOX 360? My daughters got one for Christmas. We've noticed that there is a lot of talking going on in some of them, and DD can't hear what they are saying. She's getting really frustrated because she can't understand the instructions. Is there a way to caption/subtitle...

My daughter will be entering middle school next year (6th grade). She's completely mainstreamed, but uses an interpreter. The school mentioned taking the interpreter away and using speech-to-text in the classroom instead. They don't currently have it, have only started researching it, but...

I wasn't sure where to put this thread, so am sticking it here since my daughter has a CI and it's hearing related... My daughter is 11 and is on our fitness club's swim team (she is the only deaf child). She has a CI, but of course isn't using it around the pool. She is very good at reading...

My 10 yr old daughter (has a CI) has been taking swimming lessons this year and is now on the swim team. She is great at reading lips so we haven't had a problem (her instructor says she is easier to teach and follows directions better than any of the hearing kids), but I would like to be able...

My daughter is going away for a weekend in June to Girl Scout camp (she's a Brownie) and her troop leader asked if she could teach the rest of the girls a simple song in Sign. I can't think of any kid's songs besides Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! Does anyone have any ideas for a simple child's...

If you've had to purchase health insurance from a private insurer, or if you've added work insurance after a lapse of no insurance, did being deaf affect your insurance premium? Did they your deafness as a reason to charge you more? I've always been curious how it would affect my daughter...

I need some help trying to explain the importance of a deaf child having access to deaf peers, and am having a difficult time putting it into words. Can someone help me? Here's a little background... My kiddo started out in the home school (mainstream), but after a CI failure a couple years...

Has anyone bought the Zephyr dehumidifier yet? Is it as good as the bigger Dry & Store? I was interested in purchasing one for the drying (don't need the germ killing light), so liked the idea of the Zephyr, plus it is $30 cheaper. Also, has anyone ordered from Hearing USA before (Hearing...

If you or your child has been reimplanted (for whatever reasons), I would love to pick your brain! My daughter was recently reimplanted after a soft failure, and while we've been told it can take a year for her to get back to where she was prior to the reimplantation, no one has said what it...

Tomorrow makes 1 week since Abby was re-activated. We weren't expecting it to work (doctors told us auditory nerve failure) so it was a complete shock when she started responding in the audi's office. When we left, she was on a similar program to what she used to use, and the audi enabled the...

Anyone or anyone's child have a malformed cochlea and get reimplanted? Did you (or your child) get back to the level you were at with the first one, and how long did it take? My daughter is 7 and was implanted in 2001 with the CII and did well with it. She has a malformed cochlea (less than...

Is there a sign for E-MAIL, or is it just the sign for mail with an e in front? Sorry if this has been asked a dozen times before; I couldn't find it.

Does anyone know of any other web browsers for ASL besides ASL Pro and ASL Browser that have LOTS of signs? I've been using both of these to learn sign, but they don't have a huge list of words, and it is so much easier to see someone doing the sign than trying to figure it out from a book...

Hi. I am the mom to a Kindergartener who has had a cochlear implant for the last 5.5 years. She is completely oral and knows minimal sign. In early February she came down with an ear infection, and right along with it she lost her CI hearing. Apparently this is very rare since according to the...