Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toTED Talk on Cochlear Implants and Music About Me Hearing Music TED Talk on Cochlear Implants and Music December 1, 2011 I have a lot of work to do this time of year, but wanted to post my first thoughts on this TED video. First – no captions yet! gah! I can understand the main speaker, but the video clips aren’t clear enough to hear. Second – I’m entirely happy with my two CIs. It’s been […] Number of comments: 6
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toThis would have totally changed school for me… About Me Hearing This would have totally changed school for me… May 13, 2011 The most difficult part of high school and even college for me was group discussions. I remember in English class when we would break into small groups my group was allowed to go work across the hall where there would be less background noise. It made it easier for me to hear but it was […] Number of comments: 1
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toGreat customer service without the phone Hearing Great customer service without the phone February 10, 2011 Whenever I write about not using the phone people invariably ask me “can’t you hear on the phone with your CI?” or “Why not use VRS?” Honestly, it’s a habit I fell into years ago and haven’t gotten around to breaking yet because I prefer to be phone-less. That’s just me. Moving on… The curb […] Number of comments: 4
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toThey’ve caught up! … to where I was Last year. About Me Hearing They’ve caught up! … to where I was Last year. January 20, 2011 In the late 90s when DVD players proliferated the homes of my friends it became possible for me to watch movies with subtitles at the press of a button. Before that you were dependent on them to have a newish TV set (1993) and for the VHS tape to have captions that worked. Netflix made […] Number of comments: 1
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toCan you read lips? Hearing Can you read lips? January 12, 2011 All hard of hearing and deaf people learn to read lips. Or more accurately, we learn to take advantage of any and all visual cues to understand what we’re hearing. When I was in high school I had speech reading lessons once a week. A Teacher of the Deaf came to my school. She gave […] Number of comments: 3
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toA year with bilateral cochlear implants Hearing A year with bilateral cochlear implants January 11, 2011 So now it’s 2011. I received my first CI in April 2009 and the second in late December 09 – so I’m officially over a year being bilateral. It’s been great. Life is good and pretty much what I’d call normal. I can hear a lot better in many situations. I find myself having one-on-one […] Number of comments: 2
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toA year ago… About Me Hearing A year ago… September 16, 2010 A year ago I was feeling pretty comfortable with my first CI. I’d survived the summer band concerts and was taking a class in Houston to prepare for the PE Exam. I remember the class being the first environment where I thought two CIs would help a lot. A large room, a sound system, ventilation […] Number of comments: 2
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toGoogle voice transcript versus email Hearing Google voice transcript versus email June 22, 2010 I like that the NY Times wrote about closed captioning on the web earlier this week. But I had to laugh at their quote that YouTube “supplies mostly accurate captions using voice-recognition software.” MOSTLY accurate? Right. Far from it. I assume the Google Voice transcripts use similar technology, and usually I would say, they ARE […] Number of comments: 4
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toNorwegian Sign Language? Activities Hearing Norwegian Sign Language? March 18, 2010 This came into my email recently, pretty interesting…. If you’ve never checked out Couch Surfing before, their website is a global community of people who want to host and be house guests. Â We have hosted probably half a dozen times now. Â It’s always interesting to talk to different people and show them around town. The […] Number of comments: 1
Placeholder image - camera icon. Link toIt’s the little things About Me Hearing It’s the little things March 17, 2010