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ever have a teacher, professor or lecturer - or at any time that you can think of re your education - who wears or wore hearing aids or a cochlear implant?
 
Yes, I can think of 4 people that had hearing aids and are/were teachers.

Two of them were PE & curriculum teachers at my High School.

One of them was an ex-pupil, a grade below me trained to be a teacher, teached at a hearing school in republic of Ireland and now moved to teach at a deaf middle school currently.

Another I bumped into in town the other day, her husband I knew at deaf school told me that his wife is a teacher at a deaf school.
 
I attended to a deaf school and had plenty of teachers with HAs. And some Deaf teachers also that did not wear HAs.
 
Fumasivil said:
Yes, I can think of 4 people that had hearing aids and are/were teachers.

Two of them were PE & curriculum teachers at my High School.

One of them was an ex-pupil, a grade below me trained to be a teacher, teached at a hearing school in republic of Ireland and now moved to teach at a deaf middle school currently.

Another I bumped into in town the other day, her husband I knew at deaf school told me that his wife is a teacher at a deaf school.
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Ditto...Fumasivil and I went to same school, Said PE teacher is still there and other one had moved to Australia.

You can Add another one.... I am going there in september with ST to train as TA :D
 
Hey, overthepond what is ST? I think I would like to be a teaching assistant. my qualification actually qualifies me for this but i have not decided :D
there was a deaf teacher at my primary school but she did not wear ha or ci's
 
I had an interpreter that was deaf herself. Wore hearing aids in both ears, even used the FM system with a neckloop, and she'd have 1 hearing aid on T-coil to use with the FM to hear the teacher speaking and 1 hearing aid on normal setting so she could ear other people in the room. She really worked hard on her listening skills and made great use of her hearing aids. Amazing woman she is. She doesn't interpret for students in school anymore, but still works with the state department of education. She's a very very good friend of mine these days.

also had a teacher of the deaf that was deaf and wore hearing aids (until she lost more hearing and hearing aids weren't enough for her anymore). Unfortunately, she and I didn't get along when she was my teacher of the deaf for 1 year in high school.. very different views on how to use an interprter, etc. (I grew up learning to watch the teacher and lipread, and when necessary, look over at the interpreter if I missed something... for her, she watched the interpreter at all times so she got very upset with me when I didn't watch the interpreting the whole time which was just ridiculous! For many years at the deaf school, I was taught to use my listening skills and lipreading skills as much as possible, and I took that with me after I graduated from the deaf school at the end of 6th grade).
 
Nope, I never had one. But I am one!:laugh2:

All my students can say they have had a teacher who wears hearing aids. :D
 
Miss Kat has had 2 teachers with hearing aids (Deaf) and now her "oracy specialist" also has hearing aids (HOH). Also her principal wears aids, and she had an audiologist with bilateral CI's at JTC.
 
I had one professor at Minnesota State University Moorhead that wore hearing aids. His wife is an academic vice president and I was in her office one day discussing one class and graduation. After we got that settled, I brought up her husband and how I had his geo-science class a few years ago. When I was in it, all I noticed at first is that he was more soft spoken and I talk louder than he does. Normally, I notice a person's ears first when I meet a person, but him, I totally overlooked, as I saw something out of the ordinary in them but later saw that they were hearing aids. Hope you can understand what I meant. This professor is a very good teacher, too!
 
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