Any Deaf or hard of hearing people here?

[Domitan]

Score one for a Deaffie here.

[ret5hd]

1. WHAT?

sorry, couldn't help it.

[AFSCME girl]

2. Hi Domitan..

Another deafie here! Have almost total hearing loss in my right ear, partial loss in left ear. Do you wear a hearing aid? I wear one in my right ear (should wear on in left ear also - but I just have one right now). Doctors believe I was born with an sligth, initial hearing loss, but it got worse as I aged.

[Domitan]

3. I used to wear a hearing aid

but don't anymore due to the tediousness of maintaining it (especially the ear mold!)

So what type of communication do you use? I use either sign language or speech. When situation calls, I use both at the same time.

[undergroundpanther]

4. my mom

is hard of hearing(age)
and I got tinnitus does that count?
It's sounds like crickets at night like the summertime,except all year,24/7 now.

[grilled onions]

9. Tinnitus caused by NSAIDS

It is beyond annoying. When its bad enough I hear phones ringing that aren't. I hear people talking but no one is. Not technical a disability but sure can be disabling.

[paritom]

5. Hello + ASL course question

I'm hearing, but I sign fluent LSF (Langue des Signes Française) and have some remnants of ASL. (I was born in the States but have lived overseas a long time).

Do you (or anyone else seeing this) know of a short intensive course (one or two weeks) to learn ASL? It is for a deaf friend, so a class adapted to foreign deafies would be great!

PS
The French senate has passed a bill recognizing LSF as a language. Now it is up to President Chirac to sign it into law. Keep your fingers crossed!

[Domitan]

6. Depends where the person lives

If that person lives in a large city, there are better chances of taking very thorough sign language classes. In Canada and USA, people go through different levels (number depends on location). Usually there are 4 levels (sometimes broken into sublevels) before a person can be considered capable of carrying normal conversations in ASL. Serious students go beyond to higher level in order to be quite fluent and/or become interpreters.

Best bets in finding out where: check out the colleges or contact Deaf clubs to find resources.

This may help:
http://www.deaflibrary.org/

[paritom]

7. Thanks!

Thanks for the info!

Along the way I found this link:
http://www.lifeprint.com

[recoveringrepublican]

8. Hard of hearing here eom

[China_cat]

10. My family reunion

could qualify as a hearing aid commercial. (Genetic hearing loss) About the only ones not wearing aids are those under 12.

[recoveringrepublican]

11. lmao, too funny sounds like when my aunt, mother, grandma, and me

get together! My aunt and I wear two aids, my mother has never been able to get over the "two is too much" feeling. My grandmother has gotten to the point where aids really don't help much, and I'm still learning how to hear with my aids. Our conversation are hilarious sometimes.