When I was growing up my house was relatively devoid of song. My two oldest brothers learned piano from my mother—who could, as they say about top athletes, play—and my other brother took violin lessons. But I, the baby of the family, only made music with a baseball bat in my hands. I played Read More
Archive for the ‘Late-Deafened’ Category
They Said I Was High Classed
September 9th, 2010 by ALDA Reveries
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Late-Deafened, Music |
Crappy Sign
September 8th, 2010 by ALDA Reveries
Several years ago I quietly dubbed my style of signing “ALDA Crappy Sign.” The term derived from the Association of Late-Deafened Adults (ALDA), where other people sign just like me, or even worse. Recently Howard Rosenblum, the brilliant incoming CEO of the National Association for the Deaf, Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
Badder Than Better
September 7th, 2010 by ALDA Reveries
I have bilateral cochlear implants. One is my good CI, implanted in 1996. The other is my bad CI, which found its way to my right cochlea three years ago. In relatively quiet places one to one, I hear quite well with the good CI; with the bad one I’m lucky to make out “Daddy!” face to face Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
Shy? Investigating social phobia…
August 29th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Social phobia, also know as social anxiety, is the third largest psychological problem in the world today… This diagnosis has a higher representation among people with hearing difficulties (and other populations segments), than in the average population. This site offers more information: Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
Summa summarum
August 18th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
I will in near future speak to a group of people with special interest in CI. This group will consist of both professionals and other fellow cyborgs. In regards to this speech, I was approached by a fellow speaker at the same conference, and she asked about what I would talk about. As I wrote Read More
Posted in Deaf, Late-Deafened |
In Between Days
August 1st, 2010 by Sudden Silence
Before I lost all of my hearing, Dave and I had pretty similar degrees of hearing loss. There were a few differences – I always preferred bass and hated high-pitched sounds; Dave thinks bass sounds terrible and it really bothers him. But in general, if there was something I could hear, he Read More
Posted in Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
Good bye :-)
July 24th, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
This blog has been weighing heavily on my mind for a couple months now. I have nothing more to write about hearing loss. I’m done. I seem to have lost my passion for deaf/Deaf/HH issues. I’m not sure if that’s … Continue reading → Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
“LET US HEAR FROM YOU”
July 20th, 2010 by SayWhatClub Weblog
I’ve been traveling again, and as I have mentioned before, when I book my flights online I always check the “Hearing Impaired” box in the “Special Services” option, but rarely, am I ever approached by the flight attendant with regard to this designation, and never Read More
Posted in Deaf, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
Clear Voice™ – and more thorough thoughts
July 15th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Shortly after my last blog post I adjusted the Clear Voice™ from a medium setting, to low, following the first two weeks of trying it in the medium setting. I absolutely found the medium setting useful in noisy environments, but could not use it while in a non-polluted environment. It Read More
Posted in Deaf, Late-Deafened |
AUDIOLOGISTS, TECHNOLOGY AND HEARING AIDS……oh my!
July 11th, 2010 by SayWhatClub Weblog
Approximately a year ago, I felt it was time to get a new hearing aid. I felt my aid was no longer giving me what I needed to function both at work and socially. I began to sense that I was losing additional hearing but was not absolutely certain. I’ve always been sensitive to any Read More
Posted in ASL, Deaf, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
It’s A Little More Complicated When You Wear Hearing Aids
July 3rd, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
The past few days I have been inconveniencing people by being deaf. Sometimes I hate being that person. On Thursday I had another cortisone shot. This time in my neck. The last one was in my shoulder. Both shots required … Continue reading → Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
Still Here. . .
July 1st, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
If you read my blog regularly you might have noticed some changes. I trashed a lot of old posts that were randomly showing up in my facebook account. The only old posts I left were an early series on ‘deaf … Continue reading → Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
Maybe it’s a genetic skill?
June 24th, 2010 by Sudden Silence
So we’re watching So You Think You Can Dance last night, and one of the judges (Nigel) makes a little dig at one of the choreographers (Travis). If you saw the show, it’s after the jazz routine that Tyce choreographs. Nigel says something about how this routine is actually jazz, Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
How I View My Hearing Loss, Culture, and Hearing Technologies
June 5th, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
My Deaf History and My “Culture” I was born hearing. Having a progressive hearing loss means that most my life I could hear pretty well with the use of hearing aids. Though I am now profoundly deaf in most speech … Continue reading → Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
What Technology Means For One Deaf Person
June 4th, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
Last week, Mike (Kokonutpundit), posted about what technology means to deaf people. I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Unlike Mike I don’t sign all that well, even after six levels of sign language classes. The problem is … Continue reading → Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
Is Facebook irrelevant to the Deaf ?
June 2nd, 2010 by At The Rim
I share Sandman’s view on the information processing for the deaf online. I don’t however share the view facebook is relevant to promoting deaf issues. I’m a social luddite in that area and proud of it, I prefer face to face for effective social discourse. And yes ‘back Read More
Posted in Advocacy, Deaf, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
Geeky Middle-Aged Women Gives in to iPod technology and Lady Gaga
May 31st, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
After over two years of maintaining a blog about hearing loss, it seems I have run out of things to say. Partly to blame is the fact that I’m hearing so much better with these Phonak Naidas, I hardly feel … Continue reading → Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened, Music |
Washington State Judge Orders Girl to Wear Cochlear Implant
May 4th, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
When I first heard that a Washington state judge ordered a Deaf father to require his deaf daughter to wear her cochlear implant I couldn’t believe it. See here. I was certain this was some kind of hoax. But I was wrong. First of all, the child is almost eight-years-old, certainly old Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
Why I’m not ‘Hearing-Impaired’
May 4th, 2010 by SayWhatClub Weblog
This happened about ten years ago as I was beginning to come to terms with my hearing loss. Those who have experienced a progressive hearing loss like mine will understand. When you grow up hearing, it sometimes takes a while to realize that you are no longer a ‘hearing’ person. I guess Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
More brainwork – 3 important personal discoveries
May 3rd, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
I’m progressing well with my hearing capability, and 4 weeks after my 6 month tune-up, we’ve seen and detected some real progress in my capability to distinguish some really similar sounds. Similarly sounding vowels can be hard to distinguish when accompanied by certain consonants either Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
Insight through peers
April 24th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
A little while ago I received a comment on this blog. Richard Rutherford had something very important to share. I feel compelled to provide his thoughts to you all, in it’s own post. The initial reason for that is because of what he put his finger on: the issue of audism related to self Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Late-Deafened |
New York City: deaf Access
April 22nd, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
The first thing I noticed about New York was the noise. I have an automatic noise reduction program on my Naidas, but it wasn’t enough to handle the noise of New York. While I did test my aids out in the noisiest places I usually visit, the noise in New York was unlike anything I Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
Why I Heart New York
April 22nd, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
I love New York, and I knew I would. It’s noisy and dirty and so full of life. People in New York City don’t speak English. They speak a sort of a mangled English where random vowels and consonants are dropped and replaced with sounds that only New Yorkers understand. But they are Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
My New Look, Thoughts on Lip-reading and deaf Identity
April 16th, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
You probably noticed I have a new look. I have always wanted my own art on top, but was never satisfied with it. Recently while uploading some of my old pics to a new computer I came across this photo that I had posted for a Photo Hunt technology theme, and I decided it represented this blog Read More
Posted in Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
LOSING MY HEARING, LOSING MY VISION OF INDEPENDENCE BY saytheword
April 9th, 2010 by SayWhatClub Weblog
I recently saw a Neuro-Otologist due to my experiencing dizziness. I am deaf in one ear and wear an aid on my good ear. I was relieved to find out that there’s a difference between dizziness and spinning and therefore, a diagnosis of Menieres was able to be ruled out. However, the Doctor Read More
Posted in ASL, Deaf, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
Life is getting easier
April 7th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
I feel less commitment to this blog now, and for that I’m sorry. But as things develop in regards to the CI, so does my life. The hearing falls slowly into place, and I can start to concentrate on other more “mundane” (but still very important!) things This is a good thing for me, Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
On the Road Again
April 6th, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
Papagena Originally uploaded by violscraper Early tomorrow morning I’ll be leaving for the trip of a lifetime to New York City to see the Metropolitan Opera perform Mozart’s Magic Flute. I became a big opera fan about thirty years ago, when I could hear better (not perfectly, just Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened, Music |
Moments that Matter
April 6th, 2010 by Our Journey
After Aiden’s Little Gym class today, I stopped by the grocery store to pick up a few things. Despite the fact that Aiden threw a HUGE FIT as I tried to get him to sit in the cart (I mean so huge that people just stared and one older gentleman even stopped to offer his assistance), I Read More
Posted in ASL, Auditory/Oral, Cochlear Implant, Late-Deafened |
Making Waves
March 31st, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
Splash! Originally uploaded by Éole I have been going to swim class for awhile now– since early January when I took advantage of the YMCA special when they waived the annual membership fee. It’s been a great class, and it’s a BIG class. Probably at least fifty women show up each time. Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
Welcome a new guest blogger….TD
March 29th, 2010 by Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature
Let’s welcome “TD” from parts unknown, except for me, who is recently added to our list of guest bloggers for DCR. This is a savvy, politically oriented person who knows a thing or two when it comes to politics. A late-deafened adult but very much a member of our deaf and hard Read More
