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Hey, I came here looking for a community that I can relate to. Through the past year I have been going through losing my hearing gradually, during my junior year of college. My audiologist is luckily a good advocate of speech reading and sign language, but still didn't quite understand the difficulty of learning how to speech read, adjust to a hearing aid (cuz i could only afford one), and take notes in an impossible art history course.
I have genetic hearing loss that seems to have mysteriously cropped up in the middle of college. I'm trying to embrace this change as much as I can, but it's really difficult. My family is a group of interesting when it comes to hearing issues from recruitment to tinnitus to my own gradual total loss (and my grandmothers severe loss since her thirties) it's just plain difficult to communicate. I'm trying to learn sign language, but the course taught at the college I attend dropped my because I wasnt a linguistics major. I've just been having a tough time and need some help :/ and I feel like one of my close friends is distancing himself because I keep having to ask him to repeat what he says
 
welcome to Alldeaf,

you frustrated tried sign language something resolve?
 
Buffalo as in New York? You could try Rochester Institute of Technology at Rochester which is about an hour and half from you. RIT has National Technical Institute for the Deaf. You could take classes at RIT and still get an interpreter once you know ASL. I think they also have CART where a person type up what was being said on a laptop and you read it right there on your laptop (I think you can print it out as I never use CART). NTID is my alma mater.
What are you majoring in?
 
Daragild said:
Hey, I came here looking for a community that I can relate to. Through the past year I have been going through losing my hearing gradually, during my junior year of college. My audiologist is luckily a good advocate of speech reading and sign language, but still didn't quite understand the difficulty of learning how to speech read, adjust to a hearing aid (cuz i could only afford one), and take notes in an impossible art history course.
I have genetic hearing loss that seems to have mysteriously cropped up in the middle of college. I'm trying to embrace this change as much as I can, but it's really difficult. My family is a group of interesting when it comes to hearing issues from recruitment to tinnitus to my own gradual total loss (and my grandmothers severe loss since her thirties) it's just plain difficult to communicate. I'm trying to learn sign language, but the course taught at the college I attend dropped my because I wasnt a linguistics major. I've just been having a tough time and need some help :/ and I feel like one of my close friends is distancing himself because I keep having to ask him to repeat what he says
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I find it weird for a college to just drop your class because its not in your major or vice versa? Are you taking more classes then what's required for full/part time? They won't even let you take it as an elective? Anywho all schools are different I guess. My school is a part of CUNY. Moving on, you will find tons of information and people to get to know on here. Good luck on everything. :wave:
 
Buffalo said:
Buffalo as in New York? You could try Rochester Institute of Technology at Rochester which is about an hour and half from you. RIT has National Technical Institute for the Deaf. You could take classes at RIT and still get an interpreter once you know ASL. I think they also have CART where a person type up what was being said on a laptop and you read it right there on your laptop (I think you can print it out as I never use CART). NTID is my alma mater.
What are you majoring in?
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I'm getting a BFA in printmaking at University at Buffalo, I only have a year left so I'm going to try to trudge on until graduation. The reason I got kicked from the sign language course is due to the downsizing of the department and it not bring required for my degree, I like the RIT idea. I'm only frustrated about signing because I don't know anyone to who knows the language well enough to let me know when I'm not doing it right. I'll live
 
Another Buffaloian, huh?

Hey there. Wait a minute, do you have another AllDeaf username that starts with 081109? You don't know anyone to help you with sign language..um are you kidding us, right? Since you are student at University of Buffalo and you should know that already there has 4 DEAF ASL professors at UB -- Jayme, Emily, Amy, and Evy. UB has ASL Club as we'll, they just had hosted ASL BBQ every weekend at the campus this month. There is many as good numbers of Deaf residents as it is round up 3,000 of them live in Buffalo and its surroundings. I'm also from Buffalo. My Deaf boyfriend lives here as well.
 
katz4life said:
Hey there. Wait a minute, do you have another AllDeaf username that starts with 081109? You don't know anyone to help you with sign language..um are you kidding us, right? Since you are student at University of Buffalo and you should know that already there has 4 DEAF ASL professors at UB -- Jayme, Emily, Amy, and Evy. UB has ASL Club as we'll, they just had hosted ASL BBQ every weekend at the campus this month. There is many as good numbers of Deaf residents as it is round up 3,000 of them live in Buffalo and its surroundings. I'm also from Buffalo. My Deaf boyfriend lives here as well.
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No, this is the only username I've got. Im not saying there's nothing out there, I'm just saying I didn't know how to access it. I didn't know about any of the clubs, and since I don't know any ASL Im not sure about going. I was a transfer student and wasn't really informed about it all. I'm a commuter so Im not around during normal club weekend activities.
 
Daragild said:
I'm getting a BFA in printmaking at University at Buffalo, I only have a year left so I'm going to try to trudge on until graduation. The reason I got kicked from the sign language course is due to the downsizing of the department and it not bring required for my degree, I like the RIT idea. I'm only frustrated about signing because I don't know anyone to who knows the language well enough to let me know when I'm not doing it right. I'll live
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Doesn't the university have a department for disabled students? Ask them for CART.

CART for Deaf and of Hearing People - Communication Access Realtime Translation - CART- for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Welcome to Deaf Adult Services, Inc. of Western New York - Home page.
Welcome to Deaf Adult Services, Inc. of Western New York - this one talks about CART.

Good luck in getting a CART service.
 
Oh ok, because there's a new member "081109" live somewhere in the Upstate NY and she didn't tell where part in NY...maybe I thought she lives in Buffalo or close to Buffalo. She claimed that she had became totally deaf in one day 2 years ago. She also claimed that she's currently learning ASL. Anyway, welcome to AD. There does have some events for the deaf as well along as hearies and late deafened like you are now who want to participate in Deaf community and ASL social events in Buffalo. There is some information about ASL happy hour event on Facebook and also ASL Club in Buffalo on Facebook. Which ASL professor did you have had for ASL course? Emily Glenn-Smith is late deafened and she is an awesome person to be around with, so is Jayme (born deaf).
 
Daragild, You will have one more year at UB and when you are back to school this late August, maybe you will be interested to participate in some Deaf events in Buffalo in your spare time from classes.
 
Thanks you all for the help, I found the UB group....although they weren't listed on the SA clubs list. Oh well, I appreciate it all you guys :)
 
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