Life of the Hearing-Impaired

Happy Thursday!
Life of the Hard of Hearing Hey Hey Hey! Howdy folks! How are you all doing?! I want to apologize for not getting those videos out! Over stream was down for almost a week and I was not able to upload, adding or view any videos or subtitle them. However they are working again and I already added two more videos! So patience, the videos ARE a coming, yes they are a coming!I hope everyone read Abbi...
Tech Culture Thu, Jun 26 2008 hide this blog

Updates and more!!!
Life of the Hard of Hearing Hello All!!! I have been extremely busy working non stop, hit over 70 hours in the past 2 weeks and a half. I should know, just got paid today woo hoo! Friday the 13th IS good for something! :) Just wanted to update you guys a bit in what has been going on lately. I have been practicing my signs a lot, and encouraging my close friends, all whom are hearing to le...
Language Tech Culture Fri, Jun 13 2008 hide this blog

Researching to get hearing back.
Life of the Hard of Hearing What if you were given the chance to regain your hearing back? Ya, you heard me, or rather read it right, what if you were told you were given the chance to hear again? Something would happen that you would literally get your hearing back. Would you be excited? Mad, or think nothing of it. I ask because there is new medical information coming out about doing stem cel...
Tech Thu, May 29 2008 hide this blog

Making a Difference
Life of the Hard of Hearing I think I’ll get to the point of this blog. I had mentioned before how I was rarely ever accepted in the deaf community because most deaf folks didn’t accept me for who I was. The choices I made and the things I do or don’t do. I mentioned the situation that happened with me at a restaurant between my parents and a group of deaf people. I never understood WHY I couldn...
Culture Tue, May 20 2008 hide this blog

Deaf Pride
Life of the Hard of Hearing Deaf Pride has always interested me in so many ways. The way the culture is formed, the stance on things they believe in, pride itself, what they wish and inform others of. Deaf Pride is very strong and not one to really be messed with. People of Deaf Pride have been very stringent on who belongs to the community. They have been known to reject even deaf people who we...
Culture Fri, May 16 2008 hide this blog

Visiting Geo of seekgeo.com!
Life of the Hard of Hearing Hello All! Before I even start, this blog is about meeting Geo of seekgeo.com. So if you have not heard or seen the video of us meeting I encourage you guys to do so now.Someone is VisitingBut first I want to go backwards here. How and why did Geo and I decide to meet up? It all started back in January when I was bored one night and watching one of my other deaf frien...
Art and Storytelling Culture Wed, May 14 2008 hide this blog

Why was cued speech chosen over ASL?
Life of the Hard of Hearing My parents chose cued speech over ASL for me because they felt it was the best way for me to grow up as normal as possible in a hearing environment and to talk and function in life. How did they discover cued speech? They read it in a sesame street magazine telling of a story of a little girl who was profoundly deaf like me and had limited speaking abilities. When sh...
Language Education Wed, Apr 23 2008 hide this blog

CI Update, and subtitling.
Life of the Hard of Hearing Hello All. My oh my it is storming big time here! The start of Tornado season falls upon for those of us who live in Tornado Alley. Even though Tornado alley is more specified for the states of Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and so forth, tornados hit everywhere. Just as commonly in Missouri and Illinois, this is where I live! Right now the wind has been howling, ...
Media Language Tech Culture Mon, Mar 31 2008 hide this blog

What's next... a CI?!
Life of the Hard of Hearing Hello All! I hope everyone also had a great Easter! I spent mine with my family in southeast Missouri for the majority of the day. They got hit by an ice storm awhile back so we got to see a lot of the ice damage as well. Here is a picture of my friend and me at my Aunt’s house. I am the oen holding the boot cup :) I am at the point in my life rega...
Tech Tue, Mar 25 2008 hide this blog

Helping...or Providing Needs?
Life of the Hard of Hearing I hope everyone enjoyed the last 6 clips of the captioned videos I did! I truly do love, I LOVE LUCY and always wanted everyone to enjoy them also. That is why I proceeded to add captions to the ones I could do so we call could enjoy them using subtitles. I understand many people are against it, but that’s fine. I wanted to ask you all a question and ...
Language Audism Culture Fri, Mar 21 2008 hide this blog

Captioned Videos to laugh at!
Life of the Hard of Hearing Hello Folks- I spent some time editing and captioning some videos ,2 clips from I LOVE LUCY, and a brief comic clip from Mama's Family. Enjoy them!Lucy-VitameatavegaminLuxy and Ethel-Chocolate FactoryMama and Eunice having laughs!Hope you enjoyed them! :)Alex
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The Miracle Child
Life of the Hard of Hearing Oy! If anyone watched the recent log by Geo of www.seekgeo.com, you will see one of the mistakes he made. Hilarious. I actually did my own stupid stunt vacuuming. I turned the vacuum cleaner on, and I heard it go on, so I vacuumed my entire floor. Then I stopped, and looked to see my floor still remained dirty! HUH?! How can this be?! I looked, and DOH! Stupid, stupid...
Sun, Mar 09 2008 hide this blog

Everybody's Someone.
Life of the Hard of Hearing Hello All— Why can’t we be accepted, or fit in? What does it take to be fit in to this deaf world of yours? Do I have to take off my hearing aids to be accepted? Do I have to learn ASL, or not talk? Forget I learned cued speech? I see a lot of people like me, those who got CI’s, etc; have their back be turned against them. Why? As I have c...
Culture Mon, Feb 25 2008 hide this blog

Hearing/Understanding-What's the difference?
Life of the Hard of Hearing Good Afternoon All! I really should be focused on trying to figure out how to set up my online class at SIU-C but I find this more intriguing! J A topic I wanted to talk about, I assume is one of a common thing but leads me to GREAT frustration among the Hearing World. This is basically the actual difference between calling myself deaf...
Thu, Feb 21 2008 hide this blog

Trying to fit in...One sign at a time.
Life of the Hard of Hearing Hey Guys- First off, I want to thank everyone for the support and praises I have heard from each and every one of you. It means a lot to me! I also want to thank those who are reading but didn’t leave a comment, again thanks for reading! I also read all comments and take them to heart, and again anything you want to hear from me or anything send me a m...
Language Culture Tue, Feb 19 2008 hide this blog

Cued Speech-My Story
Life of the Hard of Hearing Hello All! Glad to see your here reading about Cued Speech. I understand this is a very controversial issue for many involved, myself included. Deaf People are either against it, support it, or mutual, they don't care too much to see both ways. After my parents found out about my hearing loss, the first thing they did was to seek about ASL. However my parents were...
Tue, Feb 19 2008 hide this blog

How did I lose my Hearing?
Life of the Hard of Hearing Hello All!! When we meet other people with hearing loss, the first question is always typically, how did you lose your hearing?! I was born hearing to hearing parents. I had a medical condition that somehow stopped my skin cells in my stomach to stop forming. This allowed my organs, more particuarly the stomach, liver, intestines, bladder, kidneys, and so forth to...
Tue, Feb 19 2008 hide this blog