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Hello! I am currently a student in a Communication Disorders and Deaf Education program and have a school project where I need to interview 3 people who currently use hearing aids. If you are interested in helping me out, please answer the following questions! Thanks so much!

1. How long have you worn your hearing aids?

2. For how long before you got your hearing aids did you suspect you had a hearing loss?

3. How long do you wear your hearing aids each day?

4. Do you feel like you get benefit from your hearing aids?

5. What complaints do you have about your hearing aids?

6. Do you feel like your hearing aids have lived up to what your audiologist or hearing aid dealer told you they would do?

7. Did you get your hearing aids from an audiologist or a hearing aid dealer?
 
How long do you plan to stay here after you get yours answers? I know nothing about you yet you want to know something about me , sorry it's not going to work that way with me.
 
It's that time of year again. Where a forum of deafies become Guinea pigs and homework answers. Sigh. We're actually real people. I'll answer your questions if you answer 150 of mine.
 
Hi all, that's not a problem at all if you would not like to respond. I appreciate your help anyways. I am just a student who is working on becoming a Speech-Language Pathologist and this is very valuable information for me as I will undoubtedly be working with people with hearing loss in the future. I am in no way trying to make anyone uncomfortable and will gladly remove this post if people have problems with it.

Best wishes.
 
Hi OP,

First of all, you might want to refrain from using the term 'hearing loss'.

Second of all; if you have a look around the site, you'll find the answers to all of your questions as they've been asked 1000 times before.

Best of luck to you!
 
We been asked these questions so many times , if you do a little digging around here you'll
iMaisie said:
Hi OP,

First of all, you might want to refrain from using the term 'hearing loss'.

Second of all; if you have a look around the site, you'll find the answers to all of your questions as they've been asked 1000 times before.

Best of luck to you!
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Made that a 1001 times ! LOL!
 
akm1991 said:
1. How long have you worn your hearing aids?

2. For how long before you got your hearing aids did you suspect you had a hearing loss?

3. How long do you wear your hearing aids each day?

4. Do you feel like you get benefit from your hearing aids?

5. What complaints do you have about your hearing aids?

6. Do you feel like your hearing aids have lived up to what your audiologist or hearing aid dealer told you they would do?

7. Did you get your hearing aids from an audiologist or a hearing aid dealer?
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1) since day one.

2) the day before.

3) depends on the mood

4) only when the HA decides to work

5) they do not always work as advertised

6) after paying thousands of dollars out of pocket, I'm still disappointed.

7) what is that?
 
Audiofuzzy said:
really?, why? I am genuinely interested. what's appropriate now?

Fuzzy
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Yeah b/c I say I have a hearing lost or is hard of hearing or hearing impaired , I feel people should be able to say what they want about being deaf or hoh , it's their hearing they're talking about.
 
But the question is about "how long ago do you think you started losing your hearing", meaning 'started hearing worse than normal',
not how do you see yourself 'as'.
So, how one does asks HoH or deaf person "how old do you think you were when you started experiencing problems hearing - in other words, a hearing loss. that's what I'd like to know.

Fuzzy
 
ps
in another way - the question is related to time, not the hearing.
 
I understand about how you must have felt, but what about your parents? Didn't they ever notice something's amiss?

Fuzzy
 
Audiofuzzy said:
really?, why? I am genuinely interested. what's appropriate now?

Fuzzy
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whatdidyousay! said:
Yeah b/c I say I have a hearing lost or is hard of hearing or hearing impaired , I feel people should be able to say what they want about being deaf or hoh , it's their hearing they're talking about.
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I guess because I'd rather see it as a gain than a loss, and many of my friends hate the term 'hearing loss' as it makes it sound I dunno, vulgar, I guess?
It was late last night when I wrote that, I really shouldn't have jumped on him so harshly.

So, apologies, OP! :redface:
 
iMaisie said:
I guess because I'd rather see it as a gain than a loss, and many of my friends hate the term 'hearing loss' as it makes it sound I dunno, vulgar, I guess?
It was late last night when I wrote that, I really shouldn't have jumped on him so harshly.

So, apologies, OP! :redface:
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Having to stay back in school and going to reject classes b/c I was HOH was a big lost to me. I gained nothing by being HOH and my dad slapped me for not answering
him fast enough b/c I didn't hear him calling me. I got my first hearing aid when I was 8 yo. If you see this as a gain there nothing wrong with that , I see it as a lost.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Having to stay back in school and going to reject classes b/c I was HOH was a big lost to me. I gained nothing by being HOH and my dad slapped me for not answering
him fast enough b/c I didn't hear him calling me. I got my first hearing aid when I was 8 yo. If you see this as a gain there nothing wrong with that , I see it as a lost.
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I kind of hard the same problem my parents were embarrassed by me but I don't see it as a gain or a loss. Or maybe I loss the hearing world a little but gained a new community.
 
DeafNerdMommy said:
I kind of hard the same problem my parents were embarrassed by me but I don't see it as a gain or a loss. Or maybe I loss the hearing world a little but gained a new community.
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I not talking about losing the hearing world I talking losing out on learning in school , I miss out a lot and then was send to the reject class and given work that was
below my grade so I could 'pass' , I never had to write a book report or read poems in Jr. high b/c I was in the reject glass . So went I was went to regular high school
and given work at regular grade I had no fountain to build from . So being HOH was huge lost in getting decent education and I there wasn't and deaf community around me when I was growing up and if there was I wouldn't fit b/c I never learn ASL my dad would never had allowed that !
 
iMaisie said:
I guess because I'd rather see it as a gain than a loss, and many of my friends hate the term 'hearing loss' as it makes it sound I dunno, vulgar, I guess?
It was late last night when I wrote that, I really shouldn't have jumped on him so harshly.

So, apologies, OP! :redface:
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Right.
I understand your position, but indeed one's personal feelings can't change what is commonly understood and accepted
as a normal, specific question in questionnaire, is all.
While I understand you may see it as gain, it is rather weird to ask "so, when you first noticed a hearing gain?" :hmm: lolol
imagine the confusion :giggle:

Fuzzy
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I not talking about losing the hearing world I talking losing out on learning in school , I miss out a lot and then was send to the reject class and given work that was
below my grade so I could 'pass' , I never had to write a book report or read poems in Jr. high b/c I was in the reject glass . So went I was went to regular high school
and given work at regular grade I had no fountain to build from . So being HOH was huge lost in getting decent education and I there wasn't and deaf community around me when I was growing up and if there was I wouldn't fit b/c I never learn ASL my dad would never had allowed that !
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Wow that sucks, I went mainstream but was never an outcast per say. I mean I was part of the reject group but we were the popular group in my high school sooooo...
 
DeafNerdMommy said:
Wow that sucks, I went mainstream but was never an outcast per say. I mean I was part of the reject group but we were the popular group in my high school sooooo...
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The students in the reject class was outcast in my school the mainstream students had nothing to do with us , I had friends in the reject class , I was the only student that was HOH in the class. Yeah I really gained nothing by being hoh while growing up.
 
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