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I'd heard that but then couldn't find a link for it to make sure spreading correct information. :)

So, I asked about ANSD at an appointment and the response is that as there's no copy of my MRI from 13 years ago, they'd need to do a new one before anything else. Currently it only says 'MRI was normal' in my notes which audiologist wasn't satisfied with. If they did they did anything else...

Not quite relevant, but Oticon Spirit Synergy aids have a music setting that you can ask your audiology clinic to enable (just a button click). It's considerably better than the mess the normal channel makes of it.

I use the the FM genie, however it is body worn (which I wanted). This is a brilliant comparison chart between radio aids. Though I can't promise it's up-to-date. And this link shows their accessories.

I've got a moderate hearing loss, so not a candidate for CI but was raised around the Deaf community and lots of Deaf children with an without CI. My opinion is: yes to the CI, but if she doesn't like it she can remove it and will already have a solid grounding in ASL. Otherwise it will be...

I'm part of a signing choir and we sign our songs in BSL. Recently we went to a competition and the judge (Deaf) critiqued some of the choirs for their use of Sign Supported English. It can be done and done well, but probably not by new signers at at least in BSL you need a wide vocabulary in...

I'm not really sure - we certainly don't have a strong linage of Deaf individuals but my grandfather was deaf (though whether he became deaf in early childhood owing to measles was rifely disputed in the family when he was alive), his grandfather was deaf and one of his sibling's grandchildren...

Well, I wouldn't say there's actual preservation efforts for Manx and Cornish in the schooling system but I completely agree about Welsh and Gaelic - though I suspect much of that has to do with the devolution of those countries. Unfortunately, I suspect a lot of it is due to misunderstanding...

I'm in Oxford. We have one primary school and two secondary schools with a deaf unit in the whole of the county. The primary school (4-11) has 3 deaf children on roll and all are mainstreamed for most of the day. The head Teacher of the Deaf for the county is currently doing a BSL Level 2...

It can be hard to find other Deaf people where I am in the UK - it's a very oralist area. I know young Deaf people from where I grew up, but it's hard to find them where I live now. Either they don't sign or they don't feel the need to come to Deaf social events because they've already got...

I seem to spend a lot of my time trying to (rather unsuccessfully) explain in a concise manner what my hearing aids sound like to other people, particularly their rather questionable processing of music and also how they're not so great in background noise. Is there any way of recording the...

If you can pair your hearing aids through bluetooth, then you can set them up as wireless headphones. I haven't got a streamer yet, so I haven't tried it. Mostly I used the haptics to alert me to alarms.

The stance of the National Deaf Children's Society where I live is that all children with hearing loss are referred to as deaf because it's a positive identity, rather than a negative one. By the time I became a teenager, I realised that I wasn't really allowed to be 'deaf' because I had a...

The way to read your audiogram is that [ and ] show the sound you can hear through your inner ear alone and o and x show both your hearing through outer, middle and inner ear. If you have a mixed loss you have problems with both 'outer and/or middle' and 'inner'. The BAHA allows you to bypass...

It looks to me that a BAHA would help you (albeit less effectively than a CI might). I would ask if you are able to trial a bone conduction hearing aid first (even if only in the office) to see how you cope with it. The BAHA would help you with your conductive loss and amplify for you...

Hm, I don't know them. I'm in England (Scotland do their own thing regarding school). Day Nursery is essentially paid for childcare, whereas the others are all free. (Although they are bringing out some paid hours for two year olds in low income families, I believe.) Some families of nursery age...

My best guess they meant 'my first year in school' instead of 'first grade' or a poor translation from another language meaning the same. Here, although school is compulsory from age 5, almost every child starts at 4 (the intake is age 4 and if you don't start then, the school doesn't have to...

I put the vibrating part of mine between my mattress and pillow (both memory foam) and it works a treat.

For anyone else who might find this googling CI and roller derby. I absolutely wouldn't do it, if I had a CI. Though I know there are people that do. Up until a couple of months ago, I used to play. It is very likely you will have a head injury at some point, though most likely a minor one...

By a bit like, I meant that it's a little square that magnets to your head.