Tagged With: deafness
Starkey Hearing Foundation in Africa
Last night was the final episode of Celebrity Apprentice, in which Marlee Matlin faced off against John Rich to win the game. Rich was playing for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which treats children with cancer, and Matlin was playing for the Starkey Hearing Foundation which provides hearing aids to children in the United States … Continue reading
Hearing Aids and Phone
My old hearing aids were awesome. They knew when I got a phone call, and switched over to phone mode automatically. If I wanted to initiate a call, I only had to tap one button to switch things over. The microphone unit was small and easy to clip on. Those days are no longer, of … Continue reading
Deaf Records
Thanks to Breza, I have been poring over the newly-released U.S. Special Census on Deaf Family Marriages and Hearing Relatives, 1888-1895 at Ancestry.com – thank goodness I have a membership! I know I’ve already mentioned it on Twitter and Facebook, but I wanted to talk a little more about it. I’m already finding interesting little … Continue reading
Hard of Hearing Interpreter
Somebody asked me on Facebook about being a hard of hearing interpreter. I figured I should blog my response so I don’t have to type it out again next time somebody asks. The main challenge as a hard of hearing interpreter is that you can’t accept just any job. You have to be able to … Continue reading
Police Procedurals (29/49)
I love me some police procedurals. That’s the technical term for shows like CSI, NCIS, Cold Case, Law & Order, etc. Given that there is one airing just about every minute of the day if you have enough channels, I’d say plenty of other people love them too. So I have the same questions I … Continue reading
Hearing Update
I need to get another audiogram done. Right now I have the TV cranked above 30, and I had the radio cranked up in the car this morning, too. I haven’t been able to hear any of my professors this week; several of them speak along with their signing, usually just above a whisper, but … Continue reading
No Scuba
I think I shall never become a scuba diver. I had my first class today at school. For those who don’t know, I had an injury on a 2006 “discover scuba” trip in Bermuda; my hearing was damaged as a result of this. But the world underwater was SO cool, and I really wanted to … Continue reading
Irony vs. Fate
Sometimes people say my hearing loss is ironic. I have been involved in the deaf world for all these years, and now I have a hearing loss of my own. People love to comment about the irony of this, so much that I’m tired of hearing about it. Now I think of it in terms … Continue reading
Sweet Nothing
IMDb says that if I enjoyed “Sweet Nothing in My Ear” I will enjoy “Sound and Fury” – well, that’s pretty accurate, because the former is basically a fictionalized version of the latter. Yup, the old CI debate again, this time starring Marlee Matlin and Jeff Daniels.Thoughts: It showed that some deaf people are very … Continue reading
Protected: Expensive Aids
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