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    Deaf Family

    I am profound deaf. My family is all hearing though. I did some research into deafness and it turns out that 90% of hearing impaired people are born to hearing parents. 25 to 30% of the people with deafness do not know the cause of their deafness.
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    What's your plan...

    This weekend is my offical start of my spring break. So friday night, I'm gonna hang around and chill in my dorm. Saturday morning around 8 or 9, I will be leaving with my boyfriend for Hamburg, New York. That'll be a fun trip to take and we'll stay at his grandparents' house with his...
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    Summer job

    That'd depend on where you live. You can find out about when the classes are and how much they will cost from Red Cross. They will provide all the information regarding lifeguard classes and how much it'll cost to take it (it normally ranges $100 to 190). I had to pay like 150 bucks to take...
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    Hearing Aids users

    I like wearing hearing aids better than the idea of undergoing surgery to have a cochlear implant. So I really wouldn't complain since hearing aids do help me hear to a certain point. CI would probably help me hear way more than I do with hearing aids but I do not care for getting the CI cuz...
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    InSight Cinema

    Depends on where you are at, cloud...
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    CART/Captioning service for the deaf/HOH

    I haven't tried that process yet, but I'm not complaining about my interpreters because so far, they're awesome. I get to have conversations with them in sign language during class sometimes when I get that bored. Yes, it gets so boring sometimes that we just start having a conversation (one...
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    Cued Speech

    My parents tried that with me. It didn't work out too well so they just struck to trying to teach me to talk somehow by having me hold my hand on the person's throat during speech therapy and allowing me to learn to lipread. I do not know for sure why it didn't work out for me since I have a...
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    Sign Language

    I started learning at deaf camp in july/august for a week back in 1997. I am still learning sign language to this day and am trying to plan on registering for taking a asl class.
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    Deaf schools or mainstream?

    Louisville Deaf Oral School in Kentucky (age 3 to 7) St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf in Missouri (age 7 to 14) St. Luke's in St. Louis, Missouri (age 13-14 for part time mainstreaming in regular classroom) South Vermillion High school (public school 3 years - mainstreamed full time in...
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