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Hi Everyone!

I had an appt with my audi today and it was a unique one for sure so I wanted to share!

The goal for today's appt was the set up an FM program on my hearings specifically programmed for one of my interpreters voices. This one interpreter and I are together a lot and I use her to speak words for me for my linguistics courses that involve sound. Basically the goal was to set up a program that optimized how much I could understand her speech.

We started with setting up a second FM program with the same setting as my current one and the interpreter speaking while I didn't look at her. As she did close to 20-30 minutes of words, both closed and open set, my audiologist took note of what I was struggling with and made changes accordingly. We tried a few single phonemes, but those didn't go so well. However, with the programming complete I was getting probably somewhere from 85-90% right by hearing alone with an open set of words. That is pretty cool, I think!

Then my audiologist did impressions because my molds are loose and I need new ones. One year so it makes sense. They are hard though, but also designed to be very tight and deep. My new ones will be soft, which I am hoping will work out better comfort wise.

I also have a hearing test for next week...not looking forward to it but it has to happen!

That was my day! I wanted to share!
 
It's always a good thing when you leave the audiologist's office feeling good. Doesn't happen as much as it should!

I know I'm going to be in and out of my audi's office all the time for the next few months as we try and adjust my new Naidas for best optimization.

Glad you had a good experience!
 
I'm happy you had a good experience ! I have my audie appt this morning and I'm not looking forward to it. It doesn't help I feel rushed because she books 30 min appts always back to back and there is a lot of work that I need done. I can bet anything that it all wont get completed today...the programming, the hearing test...etc. Whats worse is me trying to explain to a person who has never had a hearing loss what Im hearing. I swear she just doesn't get it I should have been an audie. I could at least understand what the clients are going through.
 
That's great you got exactly what you wanted!!
 
JennyB said:
Hi Everyone!
We started with setting up a second FM program with the same setting as my current one and the interpreter speaking while I didn't look at her. As she did close to 20-30 minutes of words, both closed and open set, my audiologist took note of what I was struggling with and made changes accordingly. We tried a few single phonemes, but those didn't go so well. However, with the programming complete I was getting probably somewhere from 85-90% right by hearing alone with an open set of words. That is pretty cool, I think!
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Very interesting! 85% speech recognition with open set despite your profound hearing loss? That's probably better than what I can get with a much lesser hearing loss. It's why im upset my HAs aren't correctly programmed and if I can't get those reprogrammed, id like to buy new HAs. I am showing this to my dad as proof of how good a deaf person can understand speech if only they had the right HAs programmed right like you do! I can understand why CI doesn't interest you. Im wondering if most, if not all people should score high on speech recognition if they have the right HAs with the right programming. Makes me seriously wonder how many with CI could have gotten great benefits if they put the effort into HAs that you and I do. :hmm:

Hearing tests are fun, really! Maybe your hearing improved? I think mine did at 125Hz, I heard a 45db tone in the right ear, surprised me!
 
deafdude,

Do you think anyone with profound loss is capable of understanding speech with HAs? As I've said in other posts, I was unable to even when using a Comtek FM system. Perhaps it has to do with the extent of my loss, but I still wonder what you think about people with profound losses across the board being able to understand speech. I grew up with hearing most of my life and have always been told by my HA audis that I used my residual hearing well, but in 1995, I could no longer understand speech despite how much concentration/effort I put into it.
 
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deafdude,

Do you think anyone with profound loss is capable of understanding speech with HAs? As I've said in other posts, I was unable to even when using a Comtek FM system. Perhaps it has to do with the extent of my loss, but I still wonder what you think about people with profound losses across the board being able to understand speech. I grew up with hearing most of my life and have always been told by my HA audis that I used my residual hearing well, but in 1995, I could no longer understand speech despite how much concentration/effort I put into it.
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I cant understand speech with a FM system no matter how much I practiced. Ended up giving me headaches! :lol:

that's cool, Jenny. Do u have to concentrate hard to be able to understand what is being said?
 
Hear Again said:
deafdude,

Do you think anyone with profound loss is capable of understanding speech with HAs? As I've said in other posts, I was unable to even when using a Comtek FM system. Perhaps it has to do with the extent of my loss, but I still wonder what you think about people with profound losses across the board being able to understand speech. I grew up with hearing most of my life and have always been told by my HA audis that I used my residual hearing well, but in 1995, I could no longer understand speech despite how much concentration/effort I put into it.
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New technology advances. This system Jenny is using was not available in 1995.

Maybe deafdude is right and technology will eventually make it possible for all to understand speech with HA, if there is any residual hearing.
 
I cant understand speech with my HA, i have never done. I still rely on lipreading with my implant. sometimes i am unable to understand speech unless i lipread
 
DeafLissa90 said:
I cant understand speech with my HA, i have never done. I still rely on lipreading with my implant. sometimes i am unable to understand speech unless i lipread
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I understand speech when I lipread with my HAs...without lipreading, forget it. Is that the same for u with your CIs?
 
DeafLissa90 said:
I cant understand speech with my HA, i have never done. I still rely on lipreading with my implant. sometimes i am unable to understand speech unless i lipread
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Me too, but it does not mean it can't be possible.
 
Bottesini said:
New technology advances. This system Jenny is using was not available in 1995.

Maybe deafdude is right and technology will eventually make it possible for all to understand speech with HA, if there is any residual hearing.
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That would be cool, wouldnt it be? However, I will still advocate for ASL.
 
shel90 said:
:confused: I dont think I was picking on deafdude, was I? If I did, oops. :)
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No, you were not. Sorry about that.

I was just saying why I took my stance on the possibilities of technology.
 
Bottesini said:
New technology advances. This system Jenny is using was not available in 1995.

Maybe deafdude is right and technology will eventually make it possible for all to understand speech with HA, if there is any residual hearing.
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Transposition aids were available when I was evaluated for my first CI in 2004, so I could have taken advantage of them, but my former CI audi thought I would benefit more from a CI than transposition aids.

She also told me the learning curve for using transposition aids is steep and many people have difficulty adjusting to them. Jenny may be able to understand some speech, but she does not understand a majority of it which is what I was hoping to do when I was evaluated for CIs in 2004.
 
Transposition HAs take high frequencies and move them down into the lower frequencies where they can be heard. As a result, they sound different than traditional HAs.
 
:ty::ty:

Thank you!! That was a very nice and clear explanation
 
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