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No I didn't. If what i said is what you were trying to say you didn't clarify. All you said is without glasses you're legally blind but youre not visually impaired. I said thats a poor analogy. I made a very different one saying someone who uses glasses but cant see close to ideal and still...

I have a HUGE problem with this, my phone has the adaptive settings on to vibrate like crazy and flash lights and it's helped a little but not enough. Thank you for all the suggestions everyone, I'll definitely try some of them out.

As my dad's ohana says, mahalo! (My dad is kanaka maoli, Native Hawai'ian, mahalo is thank you!!) I had an amazing ASL professor in school last semester. She is hearing but works for Child Find the birth through age 3 program in our state that goes into homes of deaf babies and toddlers and...

I have a double whammy. Deafness runs on my mum's side of the family. My brother was born with worse hearing than me, and had a few surgeries and implants. He went the 100% oral route with speech therapy and an IEP. I was in a car accident when I was little and fractured my temporal bone, I was...

Hmm I've never had other students materials captioned. But I did have anything the professor posted/shared/required captioned through our Access Center. I had to notify the professors at the beginning of the semester because they had to submit their materials pretty early to have them captioned...

Hi everyone! If you don't know my background, here's a quick recap. I'm a 29 year old HoH girl, who was mainstreamed and use hearing aids, I have severe hearing loss in one ear and profound in the other right now, it's progressed since I was little. In school I was exposed to signed English and...

Hi Dallas! I am HoH and was mainstreamed in school. The main sign system I was taught was signed English. I've been in classes to learn proper ASL so I can be more involved in the Deaf community, I want to eventually go to Gallaudet for grad school :-)

What I've found hard is opportunities to be more involved in the Deaf community. I take ASL at the Deaf charter school in our city but even the most advanced class isn't quite advanced enough. I'm one of the few Hoh/Deaf other than the teachers who teach at the school. Its mostly hearing family...

Welcome rockymountainmama i live in the rockies too!

Do your old ones still help at all? If so, how about doing what my friend did with glasses (keep the old pair and wear just for things like swimming). That's a really great idea. They aren't great but def better than nothing! I just have to be carefuĺ until i get my new ones which is taking...

Great post! Just to add I'm HoH and still needed still needed speech classes. Not at the intensity of some of my profoundly Deaf friends, but I was still very young when I lost a great deal of my hearing and was in speech in elementary school.

Hi everyone! Thanks for such great responses (like I'd expect anything less from AD though right?) Sorry I didn't get back to everyone sooner. @DeafDucky Yep that's pretty much what I do now. My gym is full of out of control kids though and I've had to go complain sometimes which makes it...

I don't like that analogy. I'm legally blind without my glasses or contacts too but with them I can see almost perfectly. Even though I've been that way since kindergarten I don't require extra adaptations to see, I can drive, I can read, etc. so I do not consider myself visually impaired. With...

I'm HoH. I really don't like the "faking it" mentality. Some of us didn't have the choice. With our hearing loss we were given hearing aids or in some cases a CI and mainstreamed in hearing schools where we had to learn to speak and get around in the hearing world without signing. The sign I was...

Not sure if this is the right place to post but anyone else out there a swimmer? I was on swim team when I was younger but it was easier with my whole team and coach knowing I couldn't hear. Now I swim regularly at the gym but keep running into people trying to communicate with me and I'm in the...

Hey that's awesome! Pm me!! There's a Denver deaf life thing next weekend

I would def see an audiologist

My hearing aids cost over $5000 and my Medicaid won't pay a cent. Thanks Colorado. It's not like my glasses where I can go buy a good pair for $50-100 at Costco. I'm applying with DVR but that could take 6 months minimum and only end up covering half. I'm working two full time jobs in addition...

You're so right. However in CO my Medicaid pays 0$ for my HAs. I'm already shelling out $5200 if I can get good quality customized ear molds online for $100-$200 I'll do that instead of adding $1000 to my already outrageous bill! :-)

Hey at least your HA and all the stuff is free. I would switch online earmolds in a heart beat for that!