Recent content by ismi

I've looked around online, and I haven't been able to find any agencies that do VRI, apart from CAN Interpreting (I have an Ojo, so that'd be ideal), and I haven't gotten any replies to my email to them. Does anyone have suggestions on how I can get connected with someone who does VRI?

I generally listen with my implant and hearing aid, but if I'm dancing, I do enjoy sometimes taking them off and just grooving to the beat. It's a nice break from the BOOMBOOMBOOM inside my head, but keeps the rest of the experience intact. Not like I can understand English in that kind of...

DizzyDon: I, too, have joint problems (not arthritis, but very similar), and there are letters I don't form right. I used to worry about it a lot, but I realized pretty quickly that people understood me anyway. Deaf, anyway; my hearing friends sometimes have more trouble with my...

I haven't had nearly as many problems with my processor (Harmony) as you seem to have had, but I agree - build quality on some parts is lacking, and the interface could be much improved. (Build quality on the iConnect in particular ... it feels so flimsy, at least on the battery door.) I...

So, uh ... the Nazdonian police won't see the external processor and confiscate it? At the very least, Nadia would have to be *really* careful with her hair ... The internal bit isn't heat-sensitive. If you were exposed to that much heat, you'd have more important things to worry about -...

CI's tend to be a bit more sweat resistant than hearing aids - at least, that's been my experience. To add to what R2 said about removing the implant ... I suspect if the magnet is all that's being removed, a non-specialist surgeon might not know initially how to do it, but could probably...

I know you asked for interpreting, not CART, but some of the issues are the same, so I thought I'd share. I've used remote CART a few times. Never in class - my university has a relationship with a local group of CART providers who only do non-remote CART - but I've been to a few events that...

Lithium. They're lithium ion.

Deaf to Deaf VRS? You mean Deaf calling each other with VP, but not going through VRS, or do some Deaf call each other through VRS for some reason? A VP-VP call usually shouldn't go through VRS ...

I'm one of those folks (deaf, learned ASL late). We did discuss classifiers some in the classes I took, but I did realize later on that some signs I had learned could be used as classifiers. The reason to teach classifiers as such, I think, is that spoken languages don't use words that way...

Not quite a VP user yet - I just got an email saying I should be getting my Ojo soon. But for me, it's not even so much about portability as it is transparency. If I can give hearing people a phone number that they can call that connects to VRS and then to me, that's great; my understanding is...

As one of those people who had 'borderline' speech perception in real-world (non-testing) situations, I'm just going to reiterate that you really don't know what you're talking about. You of all people should know that there's a huge difference between being able to cope with spoken language...

Scars fade over time, but surgical scars generally don't disappear entirely. I've got one (a surgical scar, that is, not a CI scar) that dates back 18 years; it's the same color as the skin around it, but you can still see and feel it pretty easily.

Have you tried DAI (direct audio input)?

I'm unilateral, and have been for nine months. But although my hearing is much better with my CI than with my HA (both anecdotally and tested), I do *far* *far* better with both. It's true that there are some interesting phenomena regarding the integration of stimuli from both, but I suspect a...