FX, patience
I am, it is just that I will be starting classes soon, and when making a roadmap to get the degree I want, I was just wanting to know before I start if I need to change directions.
The position just isn't good match for me in general so that's how it will be....but I will just try again with something else.
This is in effect what I want to prevent from hitting. It is not that I don’t love the challenge, hell; if I hated challenges I would not be looking to become an engineer. I just don’t want to start a uphill battle with the shear part of a mountain. I want to know that the top is at least reachable, even if it is a tough climb.
My husband who is deaf w/o HA's-no sign - went college and had no aids at time.
Wow. I am really impressed. Did he just read the lips of the instructors?
There may even be a Late-Deafened or hoh support group - or you could form one. Perhaps there is Deaf Center in your area, or an ALD chapter? <www.alda.org>.
I am sure there is a chapter, Kansas City is a big town, I am just so new to the Deaf community that I have not really known about it. As for a group at the school, I will ask when I go for a campus visit later this week/next week.
I think you can! Don't sell yourself short/underestimate yourself!
I am a shy guy, but when I set my eyes on a goal, I tend to make things happen to get to it. If I want something, I will do what I need to make sure I get it. (not that I have everything I want in life, far from it, but I tend to be stubborn headed when I set goals I make it happen).
I am glad for you that your friends have decided to share this journey with you
Thanks, me too. Frankly I did not expect the response I got from my friends after getting the reaction I got from my family. The family just blew it off, while my fiends turned it into a learning opportunity for themselves and their kids.
And I once saw a tv program about a guy who used to race stockcars was involved all various aspects of it - one time he had accident that caused him to become blind such that he had very little sight left - technically not low--vision. He stayed involved in the racing industry and became mechanic/part of pit crew instead.
Hum, I would see this more as a compromise that I would not want to reach for. He also had an accident once in the field that made him go blind, I know I am losing my hearing while debating on starting in that field. I KNOW my current field would be almost impossible to do deaf, I answer phones for a living (I could just see my bosses reaction to the configuration and/or costs of adding VRS to every tech call I took). The next step up on my career line is a divide, Network admin or system admin. The network side has never really interested me, but the system side has. The drawback is the next tier above that one is getting into the engineer level (my org. goal coming out of high school, but I could not afford it at the time) and that takes a bachelors in engineering. Now that I have a good amount of experience in the PC field, and I am making the money that I can pay for the first 2 years of college, I am resetting my goals of that engineer degree. I had decided to do this before I had my hearing checked, I just figured that since I only missed what people say every now and then, and in groups or busy rooms, and some sounds that others noticed and I did not, .. that I was fine.. ( I know, ostridge in the ground mindset, but hay, that too runs in the family :shy: ). Frankly, if not for my random sound drop outs, I would never had thought to go looking into my HoH.
a visual language would help in many instances, indeed; the thing is, in my thinking to make sure ASL remains available for Deaf as language/cultural tool.
Forgive me if my meaning was not clear. My thinking was that people, even the hearing, could benefit from the use of a visual language, not to take anything away from the Deaf community or culture. That some jobs that the use of hearing is limited or not available (like those that work with planes) could benefit from basic sign language. They have already formed their own limited version of gesture based guidance when talking to pilots to guide them (with the lighted sticks), but the use of a standardized language like ASL or a modified version like SEE would be great for them to learn. I did not mean that they should or even could take anything
away from the Deaf community, but better themselves from it.
FXAvatar - like you am VERY visual learner, visual-tactile. But I was diagnosed w/LD til college, and continually failing remedial college math, still having difficulty reading clocks, etc. 
