Crlady on the forum is an American citizen living in Costa Rica who faces the challenge of obtaining decent hearing aids. According to Crlady, in Costa Rica the hearing aids available are limited, and very expensive. So Crlady is turning to the Internet to buy hearing aids, and wants some advice and suggestions.
How Can Deaf and Hard of Hearing American Expatriates Get Hearing Aids? originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at 06:39:03.
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Stories about scammers using the relay service are nothing new. What got my attention in this relay service scam story was this:
“scam artists are registering with false names and different emails and are nearly impossible to track down.”
The new requirement to register as a relay service user was supposed to cut down on scammers. Surprise, surprise..the scammers are just using fake names and different real email addresses. So not only do we deaf and hard of hearing have the burden of registering to use relay services, the scammers have found a way to continue their scams.
Registration Requirements Won’t Stop Scammers originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 18:15:18.
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If you saw “Big River” at Ford’s Theatre years ago or recently attended a Broadway play, you may have experienced using a handheld captioning device, the I-Caption. (I-Caption is from Sound Associates, Inc.) Now, there is a similar device in the United Kingdom. The British version is called AirScript, and it was not developed to help people with hearing loss in the first place. It was actually developed to help people speaking other languages, but then they discovered it could help people with hearing loss.
Handheld Theatre Captioning in the UK originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 20:05:33.
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When state budgets are cut, lower income families dependent on Medicaid to cover the cost of cochlear implants can not replace lost speech processors. And obviously, because of their lower incomes, they can’t afford service plans either. So when an implant is no longer under warranty, and a family can’t afford a service plan, AND state funding is not there, what happens when a child loses a speech processor? A public fundraising effort, as with this little girl. (Sorry, no captions on the video).
The article does not say if the lost implant was under warranty, or if the family can not afford a service plan. I am making these assumptions based on the facts in the article.
Cost of Replacing Lost Speech Processors originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at 16:08:35.
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At least five readers so far have shared their experiences in discovering what it means to be deaf. Rather interesting responses! I can especially identify with the reader who wrote about her voice.
Readers Respond: What It Means to Be Deaf originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at 15:49:47.
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