Great discussion over at Filipino Deaf about deaf and hearing marriages and when the wife is deaf vs. when the husband is deaf. From the post: This leads me back to my main query, how successful is a deaf marrying a hearing person? Here are my succinct personal assessments on the four couples I had …
Category Archive: The D Life
My Son's Hearing
I got a surprise from the school nurse. She said that my youngest, a five-year-old kindergartener, failed his hearing test twice. The state required that she notify the parents and ask for a follow up. His hearing was fine until this point. The problem appeared only in his right ear and at the highest pitch …
A Religious School Teacher's Story
One of my best friends emailed me because she has a new student in her religious school class who has a cochlear implant. She and her sister are in the 4th class together despite the person with the cochlear implant is in 7th. Here’s how my thoughtful friend explained the situation: “She doesn’t us American …
Voice Recognition Cell Phones
We finally feel a part of the cell phone revolution as more phones come out with keyboards, more people use SMS, and more apps become available to help us communicate through text. Then I read an article in the local newspaper that keyboard phones might become obsolete thanks to voice recognition technology for cell phones. …
Healthy Hands
Never thought about it until today — shame on me. If I used ASL on a regular basis, this hand injury would’ve been more frustrating. I couldn’t type much for six weeks, so imagine trying to sign with one hand. As you can see from the photo, the splint allowed me to move my four …
Hearing Reader Asks for Dating Advice
A reader wrote to me about her relationship. I told her I am not in the best position to advise and asked if I could post it as I think she would benefit from a community response rather than one person’s experience. After all, deaf people have all kinds of experiences. Here’s her note: I …
Speech to Text Software with Deaf Accent
This post will show you what I said and what this stuff where code [Line spoken should be, "the software heard"]. I strike out the software’s mistakes and picked [put] the correct version in practice [brackets]. Here we go… For those of you not familiar with beast to pick up where [speech to text software], …
iPhone vs. Blackberry
Anyone using an iPhone or a Blackberry? I’ve narrowed the cell phone decision to these two. My thoughts: iPhone: Advantages * Blends iPod, PDA, and phone in one nice package. * Has a nice PDA interface. * Tracks teen. * Has 3G. iPhone: Disadvantages * On screen keyboard not as fast as BB keyboard. * …
Getting Ready for Back to School
Paula Rosenthal offers advice on how to help a child get ready for school. I asked my mom what she did when I was in elementary school. She said that after the first one or two years, she asked the teacher for five minutes of her time. Mom would explain that I needed to sit …
Fire Alarms for the Deaf
In my first year in college, I walked in my dorm room to see building maintenance working on the ceiling. It turned out the university sent them to install a visual fire alarm. That impressed me because I didn’t request it and I never had one while growing up. Whenever the fire alarm went off, …