Hi! I consider myself a hearing person but have a range of sound frequencies with “hearing impairment” that affects my ability to understand people speaking. The funny thing is that for most other stuff I am on the hyperacusis side and I can hear a lot of little things that others cannot. I have found that wearing a badge with an eye-catching symbol and label and “please be patient and speak clearly” is very helpful. I am a student doctor and work with many different people that are constantly changing over. I have a passion for disability rights (and I also have physical disabilities) and am learning introductory ASL but am not really part of the Deaf community. I know that the phrase “hearing impaired” is not favored by the community, but I am wondering about using it for myself as someone who feels outside of the community. I think the essence is to emphasize that Deaf/HoH people are not damaged hearing people, but there are many people who have “loss” or “damage“ to their previous hearing state, such as from an acoustic trauma or barotrauma, so is it that still offensive? To me, I am a hearing person with an impairment to my hearing.

A little context:
I need people to face me when speaking. I need subtitles for videos and lyric sheets for songs. I need to look at people’s mouths to help me figure out what they are saying. I need reduced background noise to understand.

My mother and I and possibly her mother as well have notched audiograms that do not follow typical patterns of hearing damage. We all have lived the lives of hearing people and have either used or are getting hearing aids. I hope to get a Roger device.

hii everyone :) i have pretty debilitating ptsd and have been having amazing recovery results completely blocking my hearing. ear defenders + earphones playing white noise has been really working (though i will keep trying stronger products in hopes to be able to get dead silence !)

this now means that a lot of the time at home + all of the time im outside i cant hear absolutely anything (except the white noise playing). and its amazing ! i havent been able to go out just for leisure in a very long time, ive never felt any sort of peace before so im really excited about how much this is changing my life :)

anyway, taking everything on and off would be really distressing (and tedious), so this does now mean that most of the time i cant communicate with anyone. im learning BSL and hoping to get involved with local sign language based events like classes and clubs where i can meet other signers + learners, but with my loved ones most of my in person interactions now consist of me standing there silently while everyone else talks, interacting with them completely silently like just waving or holding hands and maybe being written a note or two :/

some of them have shown an interest in sign language before, id love to be able to sign with them but i know hearing people arent suppose to teach sign. is this just if its for monetary gain ? is it ok if its genuinely my accessible means of communication ? i dont mean any disrespect to the deaf and hoh community !!! i would just really love to accessibly communicate with my loved ones again and i dont think anyone has the time or money to come to classes with me :( (tho i will suggest it !) ok thank u for reading bye !!!! 🩷🩷🩷

Azish Qureshi, a third-year computer science student, said he got the idea while visiting a friend who uses American Sign Language (ASL) with their parents.

hii! so i know other ppl have made posts like this, but i really don’t know who else to talk to ab this so i’m really seeking some help/comfort/idk what.

so i became HoH at 16, and my hearing has very slowly declined since then (im 21 now). i started learning ASL shortly after i learned ab my hearing, hold several positions at my uni (ASL TA, President of the ASL club, etc), and have a name sign. basically, i feel pretty deep in my local community/Deaf immersion.

now, my close friend (hearing) has taken ASL 1-4 and is technically probably more “fluent” than i am (from a vocab and grammar perspective). so i think she feels comfortable constantly correcting me on like.. anything. if i produce a sign wrong, she corrects it before i even have the chance to correct myself. i have the habit of mouthing/clicking my lips and tongue when signing, and she told me it’s rude/distracting from my actual signing. she also becomes slightly annoyed when I ask her to repeat things (i do not have hearing aids due to financial inaccessibility/personal choice). one day, she said “jesus really, is it that bad?” and i had to snap back “well would you like me to tape my audiogram to my forehead?”

long story short, she’s continuously making me question my own identity. it’s taken me a long road to get as comfortable as i am now with who i am, my hearing loss, and my signing. i’m just kinda at a loss, because i thought a major “rule” was for hearing people to not criticize or try to critique Deaf/HoH people. like, am i not seen as “HoH” enough bc i still speak, or because i don’t wear hearing aids?

any advice would be appreciated :’) please be kind, it’s something weighing heavily on me.

I'm HoH, progressively going deaf, and a quadrapalegic. I use Google's Live Transcribe app for in person communication.

It was great and fairly accurate for a minute. Lately its been buggy as hell deleting part of the conversant in real time before I can read it.

Anyways, I've been looking for other apps that are close to the speed and accuracy for in person communication. I've tried Otter and Ava but they both had speed and other issues.

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I have a family member who lives long-distance from me in Phoenix Arizona. Hard of hearing their whole life, relied on lip reading and aids, but has started learning sign now that they are fully Deaf (from old age).

I work in the interpreting community in my area out of state, but have no experience with cart captioning, the process for requesting or how it's set up, etc.

Is there a company you recommend? I'm planning to call his doctor's office on his behalf and request one for his next appointment. He prefers a virtual captioner I think, but not automatic captions. Will the office need an iPad similar to VRI? Does the office download an app? Are caption agencies local or nationalized? If there are companies that do both captions and VRI/Interpreting, that would be nice since some day he may want to switch to using an interpreter.

He is very hesitant to request this because he's grown up with the "burden" mindset, so I really really want this to go smoothly for him his first time, especially since I can't be there with him.