Help for Hearing Impairment

altocumulus

naf123 wrote: »

Lip-reading problems: (where the speaker might…)
• Talk too softly
• Talk too slowly
• Talk too loudly
• Talk with exaggeration
• Talk too fast
• Talk while turning face away
• Talk with mustache/facial hair
• Talk with a hand over the mouth or on the side of the face
• Talk and move back and forth at the same time
• Talk in long sentences
• Use big or unusual words
• Talk with braces on
• Talk with deformed mouth or lips
• Talk with an accent
• Talk with head down or looking away
• Talk with buck teeth


can anyone add to the list!! I am a lifelong lipreader but still not good enough....

Talk whilst wearing a scarf or other covering over the mouth

GlasweJen

I'm very excited, finally sorted out a hearing aid that is suitable for my hearing loss and pacemaker friendly, in 2 weeks time i'll be the proud owner of a pair of widex passion 115 aids. Only took the audiologist an hour to do the test and work out which aid would be suitable - it's taken the NHS months and they still don't have any answers for me!

naf123

Just read that RNID been re-branded to Action on Hearing Loss.

Anyway the RNID has always been useless for me as they seem to focus more on hard of hearing people which may be appropriate that they removed the word "deaf" from their name!

Hear-Hear

You are spot on naf123. It all smacks of some form of political correctness. Other minor charities have changed their names too, but there is no possibilty whatsoever of a strong charitable institution, like the RNIB for instance, ever ever ever changing its name.

If you want some fun, then google around for a bit and find out exactly how much this re-branding cost the RNID charity. Be warned - you may be quite shocked :shocked: when you see the answer.

GlasweJen

RNIB is now the Royal National Institute for Blind people but they didn't seem to rebrand, we just got a new box of RNIB pins in with this printed on it instead of the old "Royal National Institute for the Blind".

naf123

Hear-Hear wrote: »

You are spot on naf123. It all smacks of some form of political correctness. Other minor charities have changed their names too, but there is no possibilty whatsoever of a strong charitable institution, like the RNIB for instance, ever ever ever changing its name.

If you want some fun, then google around for a bit and find out exactly how much this re-branding cost the RNID charity. Be warned - you may be quite shocked :shocked: when you see the answer.

I googled as you suggested. The answer is £260,000!

yes, in words, two hundred and sixty thousands pound! Thats enough to buy a new house!

Wow! an awful waste of money.

As I have said before, I am highly qualified, high achieving profoundly deaf person (probably more qualified than any of the idiots that work at RNID) and once I sent an email suggesting a service for profoundly deaf people.

I was literally "shot down" as quickly as possible with them explaining their main focus is hard of hearing people and there is not enough profoundly deaf people - excuse me there are at least 100,000 of us in this country - I know that is insignificant compared to the 7 million hard of hearing people, but 100,000 people IS a LOT of people.

I guess its time for profoundly deaf people to set up their own charity and resources and be the true national voice of DEAF people in this country.

Unless there is one which I don't know about!

sunnyone

naf123 wrote: »

I googled as you suggested. The answer is £260,000!

yes, in words, two hundred and sixty thousands pound! Thats enough to buy a new house!

Wow! an awful waste of money.

As I have said before, I am highly qualified, high achieving profoundly deaf person (probably more qualified than any of the idiots that work at RNID) and once I sent an email suggesting a service for profoundly deaf people.

I was literally "shot down" as quickly as possible with them explaining their main focus is hard of hearing people and there is not enough profoundly deaf people - excuse me there are at least 100,000 of us in this country - I know that is insignificant compared to the 7 million hard of hearing people, but 100,000 people IS a LOT of people.

I guess its time for profoundly deaf people to set up their own charity and resources and be the true national voice of DEAF people in this country.

Unless there is one which I don't know about!

I totally agree, until my hearing got to severe (l)/profound (r) the RNID was helpful but they are worse than useless now, they just say that the equiptment they sell isnt geared for me anymore but for people who's hearing can be corrected enough to use adapted products.

My nephews a Total and he gave up on them years ago, nothing can be done to help him apart from widespread terps and people understand signing which isnt going to happen, yet the goverment provide terps for 80+ foreign langages 24/7 but a totally deaf person cant use emergency services like A&E because there is no terp avaialble for them which is totally wrong.

Savvy_Sue

naf123 wrote: »

I guess its time for profoundly deaf people to set up their own charity and resources and be the true national voice of DEAF people in this country.

Unless there is one which I don't know about!

What about Hearing Link? I know that one of the charities they are formed from used to run a residential course for those who had suddenly lost all hearing. And their families, who are also profoundly affected.

sunnyone wrote: »

but a totally deaf person cant use emergency services like A&E because there is no terp avaialble for them which is totally wrong.

They can use SMS emergency text instead of 999 if they pre-register, however. I don't know about emergeny access for A&E, but I know that for pre-booked appointments it should be possible to pre-book assistance - my mother has had a lipspeaker or note-taker at some appointments where she didn't want my dad with her. I believe it's up to the hospital to book (and pay for) these, but NRCPD seems to be where they'd be registered.

GlasweJen

I feel like I'm constantly asking my audiologist questions at the moment so I'll ask on here.

When I was fitted with these aids the audiologist made the computer make the battery changing noise so that I knew what to listen for. Now because I work in a very busy environment (getting used to all the noise is challenging to say the least) I'm sometimes not recognising the beeping so my hearing just goes out, is there a way to train your brain to not blank out the beepy noise?

jobbingmusician

naf123 wrote: »

I guess its time for profoundly deaf people to set up their own charity and resources and be the true national voice of DEAF people in this country.

Unless there is one which I don't know about!

British Deaf Association?

They are quite political, though.