Deaf, oral deaf or HOH and Late deaf

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Frisky Feline

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I can see there are four groups with same issue of hearing loss but they all have culture clash.

how funny is that? :ugh3:
 
When ones classifies conditions-DEAFness as ideology- " Sociology-culture"-"never ending"!
Laughing matters?
 
:wave::giggle:When ones classifies conditions-DEAFness as ideology- " Sociology-culture"-"never ending"!
Laughing matters?:giggle:
 
the only "culture clashes I see are with AG Bell style oral deaf and late deafened folks who are really into HLAA and ALDA.
Thing is............what the hell does oral deaf even MEAN?!? Orallly skilled? Many if not most dhh as kids folks are orally skilled. Very few are voice off.
 
Maybe I should say I was "mainstreamed without sign language?"
 
Deaf ferrets would like to know what all those groups are all about. Either we are deaf or not.
 
Odd: haven't had anything to do AGBell,HLAA or ALDA- have I missed something?

Aside: I have been involved with Canadian Hearing Society/Toronto re Coping/dealing with Hearing loss classes since 1992 to 2006.
 
drphil said:
Odd: haven't had anything to do AGBell,HLAA or ALDA- have I missed something?

Aside: I have been involved with Canadian Hearing Society/Toronto re Coping/dealing with Hearing loss classes since 1992 to 2006.
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yes I investigation it AGbell still, I aware it CHS,

I suspect AGBell still on,well I wlll research find lots find AGbell! area, It is pretty on CAD, Anytime Canadian?
 
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drphil said:
Odd: haven't had anything to do AGBell,HLAA or ALDA- have I missed something?

Aside: I have been involved with Canadian Hearing Society/Toronto re Coping/dealing with Hearing loss classes since 1992 to 2006.
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HLAA and ALDA might actually be more to your liking. Not that we don't want you here.....but they tend to focus on hearing health style stuff....which i think might be more to your liking.
 
oral deaf

I wore hearings aids of increasing size from age 13-34. Now basically deaf, just very low tones. I don't know ASL, still talk, read lips. Am I a weirdo because I might fit into more than 1 classification? Too deaf, but not deaf enough is what some people might call it.
 
Frisky Feline said:
I can see there are four groups with same issue of hearing loss but they all have culture clash.

how funny is that? :ugh3:
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I think it's pretty sad. You'd think it's be something to unify us....apparently that is not the case.

More than once I've been out shopping and had a very excited Deaf person spot my hearing aid and start signing to me. Unfortunately I couldn't sign back, Ima work on fixing that!!! There is actually so few of us walking around in any given town that it is very exciting to find a possible kindred soul :) But then we get on here on.......and now I have Monty Python quotes going through my head again (it's my fav movie) and we start to argue and bicker over who killed who.....okay maybe not that quote but we def argue and bicker.
 
This is what I think of when it has to be something with the attitude issues when it comes to treating hearing loss. That is what i found it sad as well.
 
half my life perfect hearing other half profound deaf.it would be nice be able sign with more people.
 
I believe it is safe to say-a small device: Cochlear Implant has had a huge impact on how some DEAF persons "deal with" the fact of DEAFness.

This didn't happen with Hearing aids which don't help the "DEAF".

Discussed in the book: Rebuilt-Michael Chorost, Houghton Mifflin 2005.
 
deafdyke said:
HLAA and ALDA might actually be more to your liking. Not that we don't want you here.....but they tend to focus on hearing health style stuff....which i think might be more to your liking.
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X2, I have asked before why DrPhil spends so much time posting here:blah::type: on a Culturally Deaf Forum when the Culturally hearing forms for people with hearing loss probably outnumber Deaf ones by 100 to 1 or more

Gotta give him credit though as he is one of the most successful trolls I have ever seen, and I feed him with my responses:roll:
 
My girlfriend's boss has a 15 years old deaf Pug. I'm sure that the dog got deaf late in life. I don't know of many Pugs that were born deaf to start with. That Pug seems to be enjoying life. It should not really matter who got deaf at 10 years old or at 40 years old. Life is what it is right now.
 
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drphil said:
I believe it is safe to say-a small device: Cochlear Implant has had a huge impact on how some DEAF persons "deal with" the fact of DEAFness.
This didn't happen with Hearing aids which don't help the "DEAF".
Discussed in the book: Rebuilt-Michael Chorost, Houghton Mifflin 2005.
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A "fact" which would be more "interesting" and "accurate" except that there are far more people (1000:1) who have "hearing loss" which makes them audiologically "hard of hearing" and thus "candidates" for "hearing aids" but not "CI".

Also your statement indicates you clearly haven't done a lot of "reading" or "research" on the "impact" that hearing aids have/had on those who "have hearing loss" in terms of "culture", "language", "sociology", "employment", and any other number of "facets of life".

It's also "important" to "remember" that "percentage wise" only a small percentage of "hard of hearing" or "deaf" people are "suitable" to "receive" a "CI". As such - HAs have actually had a much more wide reaching effect and impact percentage wise than CIs.



(Btw - look, I can randomly use "quotes" too !!)
 
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