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Yep it can. Sorry i wasnt clear. I know one problem people have with the CI is having a super invasive surgery on babies. BAHA is lesd invasive and the surgery cant be performed until age 5 minimum. Younger children (and even older i tried it with a headband pre surgery) can still benefit from...

I am on Glide @xmmtqcu feel free to add me I'm Deaf/HoH and signed English growing up but I'm learning actual ASL now and want to practice!!

You are so right sorry. My ASL professor actually works for CSDB. She is an ECE home coordinator and works with kiddos and their families from birth to age 3 from Arapahoe County. I can't begin to tell you how great she is. I grew up in the mountains so there was no Deaf program there. Even...

I agree, however I went to camp for deaf kids Aspen Camp in the mountains.

Well our family has hearing loss that runs in it genetically both my little brothers had tubes in their ears from bad ear infections, one had it make him mildly deaf and has worn hearing aids since preschool. He is like you he never required specialized deaf education. I was the only one of my...

Glide does not work on my phone :-(

I honestly love my home too much, my dad did too. What I did do for high school is move down to the Denver area to live with my mom and intend a public school with 3 "magnet" schools in the district for all Deaf/HoH kids to go to, although in my high school of 2000 kids only 3 were Deaf/HoH 1...

My situation was kind of unique. I lost my hearing after I learned to speak English, but obviously not in an advanced capacity. I hadn't learned to read yet either. Also keep in mind this happened in like 1993-1994. I wasn't a candidate for CI because I was deafened by a major temporal bone...

Ah gotcha. Hearing loss runs in my family so they're pretty sure i had minor hearing loss as a child like my little brothers did. I just became almost profoundly deaf after the accident. Do you use hearing aids or sign at all?

:hugs @Lysander : I am so sorry you have to deal with that. I am always here if you need to talk!

So true. I had a problem with addiction. I got a spinal cord injury (I had damaged my back in the car accident by a drunk driver that I was in at age 6 and my step dad was killed in, which made me Deaf) but anyway I was in and out of a wheelchair with flair ups and low and behold I got into...

If you ever want to chat feel free to message me. I went Deaf at age 6 fractured temporal bone badly in a car accident, we got hit by a drunk driver. I grew up in a rural area, I finally moved to the city a couple hours away after my parents split up and finished school there. I was mainstreamed...

Welcome! I understand what it's like to struggle with hearing loss as a child in a rural environment. I am from a mountain town in western CO and had problems getting proper services growing up. I mean I didn't not get anything and I had wonderful teachers and specialists and therapists who all...

Welcome! I saw your profile post and posted there. Hope that's okay! Anyway I'm HoH too. I'm severely Deaf after a car accident when I was 5. I've used hearing aids since then and now have a BAHA on one ear. I was mainstreamed with TC and used cued speech and signed English. My biggest exposure...

Ohhhhh that makes more sense!!! Sorry!! I have the education types on my brain. I'm with an awesome ASL class and teacher who have been working on me to get my cued speech and signed English to turn into ASL. It's been a lot of hard work (even though the hearing kids in class think I have it...

Welcome! Just remember you're entering the Deaf community's world at these events, so try to educate yourself before hand on the social norms. It might help your anxiety! Learn phrases in ASL like "Nice to meet you" "Hi my name is ____" "I am hearing, sorry I don't know ASL but am learning"...

I've heard SODA as sibling of Deaf adult

Oops I missed seeing this post, sorry1

I'm severely Deaf. It's hearing loss in the 70-90 decibel range. It goes mild, moderate, severe, profound. The OP is not using it as an adjective rather describing the technical term for her/his hearing loss.