Audi appointment today

deafdude1 said:
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!
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I do better with my profound hearing loss than most. Not because of the work that I do, but just because I do. It's the way it is. This program we set up is useless for hearing other people, it is specifically for this interpreters voice. Other things sound bad with it actually. My audiologist is also AMAZING and I am very lucky for that.

Hearing tests aren't fun for me. I don't like them.
 
shel90 said:
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?
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Yes, it is a lot of work. This is for specific situations that will come up given my major in Linguistics. I will be expected to try to hear small phrases, and single words. Most of the time I will be able to see the word in writing, speech read, and use tactile information (hand on the persons throat) too. With everything I think I should be able to get most if not all of the sound information through that combination. I have to really think about it and analyze the words though. There were a few times when I got the words first try but there as a lot of repetition so I could hear the words again, it was rare to to get them first try.
 
Bottesini said:
Me too, but it does not mean it can't be possible.
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As a general rule it is the same for me. I rely on speech reading basically 100% for oral communication. I use ASL 95% of the time though, so when I do speak it is rare.
 
Hear Again said:
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.
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Exactly. Some speech is the key in this. ASL is still my language.
 
JennyB said:
Exactly. Some speech is the key in this. ASL is still my language.
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That's right. I grew up oral, so ASL is not my primary mode of communication. English is my primary communication method followed by PSE (if I have difficulty hearing).
 
Who actually enjoys hearing tests? I've had them since age 3 and hated each and every one of them.
 
Hear Again said:
Who actually enjoys hearing tests? I've had them since age 3 and hated each and every one of them.
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Apparently Deafdude! haha They are time consuming, boring, frustrating, and people judge you based on them. I don't see how they could be fun!
 
JennyB said:
Apparently Deafdude! haha They are time consuming, boring, frustrating, and people judge you based on them. I don't see how they could be fun!
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:laugh2: :laugh2:

I have to admit that even now I still don't like hearing tests. I'm able to hear much better, but it's boring having to sit through an endless series of beeps and speech discrimination tests. I have other things I'd rather be doing instead of spending an hour or two being given a hearing test. :lol:
 
Hear Again said:
Who actually enjoys hearing tests? I've had them since age 3 and hated each and every one of them.
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A necessary evil, in my opinion. When I first started to lose my hearing, it happened so rapidly that I was being tested monthly. I'm almost glad my hearing is so bad, now they don't see the need to test as often. :D
 
DeafDoc1 said:
A necessary evil, in my opinion. When I first started to lose my hearing, it happened so rapidly that I was being tested monthly. I'm almost glad my hearing is so bad, now they don't see the need to test as often. :D
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For the longest time, I had my hearing tested every month as well. I hated it especially because every audiogram I had was worse than the one before. :(
 
Hear Again said:
For the longest time, I had my hearing tested every month as well. I hated it especially because every audiogram I had was worse than the one before. :(
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That's what happened with me too! I feel your pain!

Now, I am fairly stable it seems but I haven't had one in a year.
 
JennyB said:
That's what happened with me too! I feel your pain!

Now, I am fairly stable it seems but I haven't had one in a year.
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I'm glad you are stable for now at least. :)

In my case, I'm limited to hearing tests every 12 months (or sooner if I run into problems with my maps), but now that my dizziness and nausea have been resolved, I no longer need to have hearing tests done every month.
 
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