What I find interesting is when I think back on the speech therapy lessons I used to get, and when I listen to other peoples’ stories with speech therapy. It becomes clear to me that hearing people consider verbal speech of such high importance that they fail to consider a cost to benefit [...]

Welp. Today I went in and picked up a pair of brand-spanking-new hearing aids. I also made the leap from analog to digital. (About time, considering my professional occupation ) I’m very pleased with the results so far — the HA are comfortable and the sound quality is good. [...]

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What I want to do with this post is to put together some background on myself and some of my thoughts on these things. I don’t want to feel like I’m continually harping on certain subjects and such, but I find that people interpret my [...]

[Please note that I supported the protesters at Gallaudet]
Some random thoughts tossed out there for the more militant of Deaf folk…
Let’s examine the notion of “safe spaces” What is a safe space? Some place where you can air your concerns or talk about issues without fear of criticisms or reprisals for those very [...]

I am the cuckoo in the nest, the changeling in the crib. I am the deaf child dropped into a world of sound, by herself. I am the child who perfected her mimicry to be indistinguishable from the rest. It is a camouflage easy to maintain with distance but which cracks [...]

Update
Seems that WaPo has finally provided a transcript. Good. Now the only thing left is the complete bizarreness of a president-to-be of the deaf university in this country choosing to be interviewed on a radio broadcast…
So here’s irony on top of irony on top of …
It seems that at Gallaudet university, there is [...]

It may shock some of you to learn this, but most health care plans do not cover hearing aids. I have no idea why. If glasses are covered, why not HA? But my current insurance actually has coverage. It’s through Kaiser Permanente, although I don’t know if it’s available to anyone [...]

OK, this is fucking hilarious:
Defining who is “deaf enough” always gives me chest pain. For one thing, that’s a bludgeon the Deaf Culture uses to beat many deafened people with. Whether they intend to leave deafened people bleeding on the sidewalk outside the deaf club (figuratively), that is a frequent emotional consequence, and I personally [...]