What do you use at your job?

JennyB said:
a semaphore is a protected variable or abstract data type which constitutes a classic method of controlling access by several processes to a common resource in a parallel programming environment.
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Holy cow, I thought they were flags to signal ships!
 
Thus:

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ciuser said:
I was implanted two years ago and am now looking for a job and want to know what others use at their jobs to make their jobs accessible.

For example, using Captel or TTY/VCO phone, internet calls, instant messenger.

What type of job do you do, too? Did you bring up what you needed in interview or did they give it to you afterwards? Is everybody nice about it?

Thanks so much for any help!
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Just my hearing aid that did the trick for me. My last interview was done via video conference with three people interviewing me at the same time.
 
Bottesini said:
Ok, I must just be left to wonder why you needed short wave radio.

Mystery is good.
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I supervised mostly hearing people over a 25 acre campus and the short wave radio was an accountability and safety tool since I couldn't be in 16 places at once. For the deaf, I used a pager.
 
Tousi said:
I supervised mostly hearing people over a 25 acre campus and the short wave radio was an accountability and safety tool since I couldn't be in 16 places at once. For the deaf, I used a pager.
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Got it. Not quite what I imagined. Oh, well.
 
Hi, Alicia, you are right, it was rude of me to post before introducing myself so here goes...Hi, everyone, my name is Lisa and I had/have severe sensoneural hearing degeneration all my life -- grew up hearing, then HOH, then after many years of that finally came to terms with the fact that I was deaf but was not part of the deaf world. Before I had a chance to do that, I married my husband and was finally eligible through his insurance to get a cochlear implant, so I went in that direction. Now, after two years, the biggest challenge is in making myself wear my hearing aid in the -other- ear since I still have a stigma problem with hearing aids. At least I can hear them feedback through my cochlear now! On a more personal level, I just graduated with a degree in paralegal studies, I am married with two step-children who I care for full-time and I am currently looking for a job in a legal environment.

Have a wonderful day, everyone and thanks for all the replies!
 
But...

set2 said:
I use a Captel phone at work. I told my boss that I was having difficulty understanding people on the phone so my employer purchased the Captel phone. I have an implant but I still use the captel beacause I have had the batteries for my CI conk out at least twice when I was on the phone. You can forget about using the phone with my unimplanted ear.
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The Captel phone, people still need to call you through the 1-877 number, right? Your employer didn't have a problem with having to make people do that?
 
ciuser said:
Hi, Alicia, you are right, it was rude of me to post before introducing myself so here goes...Hi, everyone, my name is Lisa and I had/have severe sensoneural hearing degeneration all my life -- grew up hearing, then HOH, then after many years of that finally came to terms with the fact that I was deaf but was not part of the deaf world. Before I had a chance to do that, I married my husband and was finally eligible through his insurance to get a cochlear implant, so I went in that direction. Now, after two years, the biggest challenge is in making myself wear my hearing aid in the -other- ear since I still have a stigma problem with hearing aids. At least I can hear them feedback through my cochlear now! On a more personal level, I just graduated with a degree in paralegal studies, I am married with two step-children who I care for full-time and I am currently looking for a job in a legal environment.

Have a wonderful day, everyone and thanks for all the replies!
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Perhaps this is a tad insensitive...but you carry a fear of stigma for your hearing aid, but the processor on your other ear that is probably double the size and has a wire with a magnet attached to your head doesn't bother you?
 
JennyB said:
Perhaps this is a tad insensitive...but you carry a fear of stigma for your hearing aid, but the processor on your other ear that is probably double the size and has a wire with a magnet attached to your head doesn't bother you?
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:rofl2: Perhaps just a tad, but at least I wasn't the one who said it this time.
 
I have a TTY but I barely use it since I use IP relay at work. We use IM and email mostly at work, so it's easy.

Still have a problem with meetings with a large group of people though... :(
 
JennyB said:
Perhaps this is a tad insensitive...but you carry a fear of stigma for your hearing aid, but the processor on your other ear that is probably double the size and has a wire with a magnet attached to your head doesn't bother you?
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I fully agree that it doesn't make sense! It's not really external stigma that I worry about...perhaps stigma was not the best word. It's more what I carry from my childhood that does it. A hearing aid still represents something that is broken whereas a cochlear implant is an attempt at fixing it. A hearing aid is noticeable in every way from the hot feel of it in my ear to the feedback I experience when I wear my hair down or brush hair out of my face. A cochlear implant is something I don't even notice myself having; I don't even remember that I'm wearing it unless I (very rarely) have to change the settings.

If someone else can wear hearing aids and be proud of them (like you, it seems by your awesomely blinged out hearing aids:), more power to them. Unfortunately I grew up with no support system and integrated in a school with no deaf/hoh so I have nothing but shame associated with them. I tried to be proud of who I was but had no idea WHO that was. I was SO integrated that even up until a few years ago I still thought my hearing was very good, whereas now that I have the CI I can see how profoundly deaf I really was!

As far as the shame game goes, I'm in my 30's, now, though, and I recognize how ridiculous it is to feel that way about something that is so long in the past, so I am forcing myself to wear the aid and appreciate the noises I can hear through it (most of which are lower frequency sounds not really heard authentically through the CI). Eventually I hope I won't even notice it anymore, that it will just be like eating or breathing to have it in.
 
ciuser said:
On a more personal level, I just graduated with a degree in paralegal studies,
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My VR person was like were you going to put the fm transmitter that the clents cant see. And will hard to find a lawyer who will let you use a tty or vco phone because the client will have to ring a special number.

But im still doing my training and will get a job
 
inmate23 said:
My VR person was like were you going to put the fm transmitter that the clents cant see. And will hard to find a lawyer who will let you use a tty or vco phone because the client will have to ring a special number.
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That's part of what made me want to ask other people what they do at their jobs. I was hoping there was some new technology maybe out there that I didn't know about. Or learn about/from others' experiences.

I'm trying hard to get past being really negative about who would possibly hire me if I need vco phone.
 
Talk your local deaf services/VR and see if they can come to job interveiws and see if they can help with the vco issuse


Have you ever worked as a paralegal? I did some work experice as a legal secretary at school
 
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