HAs user who are around severe or low 90's profound level (or maybe more, but I'm only speaking from my and my sister's experience) can use the telephone . I know that's hard to believe, but they can. I've done it, my sister does it all time. I don't know how she does it, but she does and she is completely deaf without her hearing aids. This doesn't mean we can pick up the phone and talk to anyone. It means we can pick up the phone and talk to familiar voices who knows we are deaf and very patience with us, volume turn up, and telecoil setting
Exactly. I use TTY most of the time. not even VCO. I too bought my TTY at CHS. It is a VCO compatible ameriphone if you must know.
My phone conversation, with my best hearing friend Eric, looks something like this...
"Hi Eric!"
"Hi Jen."
"Want to do dinner at 8?"
"K, u i o. An I oo or u?"
"What?"
"K, but I o, An I oo or u?"
"What?"
"OOR! I oo!"
"Ohh, yeah, sure you can cook for me! See you at 8! You should get a job, it would solve your money problems"
"Ee u, a eh"
"What?"
"ee u a ape."
"What? We are going to eat an ape?"
"EE U A EIGHT"
"Oh yes...see you at eight."
It can't go beyond that. I maybe pick up a phone once a year, since there is largely no point.
Do you want me to post my audiogram? I am medically, and culturally Deaf.
