Why Not Deaf People Become An Audiologist?..

Oh yes, I remember Javapride mentioned in her several posts... Thank you for fresh my memory...
 
I had a hard of hearing audiologist at one point of my many hearing aid tuning that I have had in my life. I actually preferred her over any of my normal hearing audiologists. What I never understood was how deaf and hard of hearing audiologist could accurately calculate the speech comprehension score.
 
contradica said:
I had a hard of hearing audiologist at one point of my many hearing aid tuning that I have had in my life. I actually preferred her over any of my normal hearing audiologists. What I never understood was how deaf and hard of hearing audiologist could accurately calculate the speech comprehension score.
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Via computer, perhaps?
 
I used to think of becoming an audiologist.

and yes there are interpreters that are deaf. I had an interpreter for so many years, and she is deaf herself. How she can hear so extremely well with her hearing aids and interpret for deaf students, I have no idea. She's an amazing woman, brilliant, and she's just great. Her hearing loss is in the severe ranges, but she does extremely well with really powerful hearing aids. She also has a twin brother that is also deaf, but he doesn't do as well with hearing aids. She has really worked on training herself to learn how to LISTEN with her hearing aids.
 
thanks guys! for remembering me its still a long process and yes i am a PENDING which means IM NOT CERTIFIED YET! but soon will:)

and yes there area bout 50 deaf interpeters nationwide, majority of them are in MINN. CA,D.C, and 4 here in hawaii :)
 
I think if a deaf audie had some speech skills for face to face discussion with their clients there is no reason why they can't be an audiologist. There are some things that require some form of hearing, such as conducting the speech comprehension tests with hearing aids and CIs. My audiologist scores me by listening to me repeating back what is said on a speaker but I think a deaf audiologist with some speech skills can easily do this using a transcript and put the results together with the transcript. Audiologists practically learn the sentences used in the speech discrimination tests off by heart anyway.

I've come across deaf teachers of the deaf as a child, but not an audiologist, which is a shame. I hope that in the future, more deaf people apply to go on audiology courses. It's a growth area, with the number of people with some form of hearing loss growing as the population ages. Also as people have mentioned already, a lot of the work is done by computer.
 
javapride said:
thanks guys! for remembering me its still a long process and yes i am a PENDING which means IM NOT CERTIFIED YET! but soon will:)

and yes there area bout 50 deaf interpeters nationwide, majority of them are in MINN. CA,D.C, and 4 here in hawaii :)
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That is so cool! Best wishes in getting certified.
 
I don't see why not. I once knew of an ENT a long time ago who was HOH. He had to jump much higher hurdles than normal to "prove" he could do it. He went on to have a very successful practice to say the least.
 
sr171soars said:
I don't see why not. I once knew of an ENT a long time ago who was HOH. He had to jump much higher hurdles than normal to "prove" he could do it. He went on to have a very successful practice to say the least.
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Yeah, there are several deaf doctors and dentists in this country.
 
Tousi said:
Via computer, perhaps?
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I don't think computers are quite there yet. Keep in mind that there are very subtle differences in speech scores based on minor variations like if the word repeated is "rake" or "rate" for the single syllable tests, and speech recognition isn't good enough without an awful lot of software calibration for scoring sentence accuracy.

When my severely HI daughter was thinking about becoming a audiologist, she did a career project and studied this issue carefully, consulting with many CI and HA audiologists and ASHA. The general consensus was that other than grading the phoneme part of the speech recognition tests, an HI/deaf audiologist could do anything that an audiologist with hearing within normal limits could do. They also recommend that HI audiologists who don't have normal speech use the CDs for speech testing rather than MLV on the off chance that their speech might confuse the people they are testing. But those are minor accommodations in the grand scheme of things.

Said child has now decided she wants to work in radiology because it requires less interaction with cranky people (so she thinks)

Sheri
 
I was a pre-audiology major at MSUM the school year 2002-2003, but changed after the spring semester due to the attitude that one professor and a few students in his class had toward me. I'm also deathly afraid of taking stats and the math that I have to take, which I'm not happy about. If I did continue, I'd attend Gallaudet for my Au.D.
 
pek1 said:
I was a pre-audiology major at MSUM the school year 2002-2003, but changed after the spring semester due to the attitude that one professor and a few students in his class had toward me. I'm also deathly afraid of taking stats and the math that I have to take, which I'm not happy about. If I did continue, I'd attend Gallaudet for my Au.D.
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Wow, I'm sorry to hear that...It's never too late to attend Gallaudet
 
When I was up at Vanderbilt, my audie stated that a person on staff has CIs. I wonder what it would be like to work with her?
 
vallee said:
When I was up at Vanderbilt, my audie stated that a person on staff has CIs. I wonder what it would be like to work with her?
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The audi at my work has CIs..she is not that different from any other hearing audis except she REALLY understands what it is like to be deaf and understands deaf needs. That is what makes working with her so great! :)
 
I think it is Dr. Bradford. I worked with her on an appeal before yours (all by Internet and phone), and didn't even know she had CIs until she mentioned to me that it was ironic that Vanderbilt's insurance plan didn't cover CIs and it was a good thing she had 2 already, or I would be doing my next appeal for her.

Sheri

vallee said:
When I was up at Vanderbilt, my audie stated that a person on staff has CIs. I wonder what it would be like to work with her?
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shel90 said:
The audi at my work has CIs..she is not that different from any other hearing audis except she REALLY understands what it is like to be deaf and understands deaf needs. That is what makes working with her so great! :)
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Was she born deaf or is she late deafened?
 
shel90 said:
She told me but I forgot...shoot. I will ask her again on Monday if she is on campus.
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She became deaf in teens. She was ex of my best friend who was my ex too. ;) I met her. Shes nice lady. She loves to be an audi and loves to work with kids with CI!
 
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