By Sara on December 1, 2011
I have a lot of work to do this time of year, but wanted to post my first thoughts on this TED video. First – no captions yet! gah! I can understand the main speaker, but the video clips aren’t clear enough to hear. Second – I’m entirely happy with my two CIs. It’s been almost 2 years since the second [...]
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By Sara on May 13, 2011
The most difficult part of high school and even college for me was group discussions. I remember in English class when we would break into small groups my group was allowed to go work across the hall where there would be less background noise. It made it easier for me to hear but it was [...]
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By Sara on February 10, 2011
Whenever I write about not using the phone people invariably ask me “can’t you hear on the phone with your CI?” or “Why not use VRS?” Honestly, it’s a habit I fell into years ago and haven’t gotten around to breaking yet because I prefer to be phone-less. That’s just me. Moving on… The curb [...]
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By Sara on January 20, 2011
In the late 90s when DVD players proliferated the homes of my friends it became possible for me to watch movies with subtitles at the press of a button. Before that you were dependent on them to have a newish TV set (1993) and for the VHS tape to have captions that worked. Netflix made [...]
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By Sara on January 12, 2011
All hard of hearing and deaf people learn to read lips. Or more accurately, we learn to take advantage of any and all visual cues to understand what we’re hearing. When I was in high school I had speech reading lessons once a week. A Teacher of the Deaf came to my school. She gave [...]
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By Sara on January 11, 2011
So now it’s 2011. I received my first CI in April 2009 and the second in late December 09 – so I’m officially over a year being bilateral. It’s been great. Life is good and pretty much what I’d call normal. I can hear a lot better in many situations. I find myself having one-on-one conversations in [...]
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By Sara on September 16, 2010
A year ago I was feeling pretty comfortable with my first CI. I’d survived the summer band concerts and was taking a class in Houston to prepare for the PE Exam. I remember the class being the first environment where I thought two CIs would help a lot. A large room, a sound system, ventilation [...]
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By Sara on June 22, 2010
I like that the NY Times wrote about closed captioning on the web earlier this week. But I had to laugh at their quote that YouTube “supplies mostly accurate captions using voice-recognition software.” MOSTLY accurate? Right. Far from it. I assume the Google Voice transcripts use similar technology, and usually I would say, they ARE [...]
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By Sara on March 18, 2010
This came into my email recently, pretty interesting…. If you’ve never checked out Couch Surfing before, their website is a global community of people who want to host and be house guests. We have hosted probably half a dozen times now. It’s always interesting to talk to different people and show them around town. The [...]
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By Sara on March 17, 2010
Free Bird Originally uploaded by Southernpixel This morning I heard the beep on my car telling me I left my lights on. They were on only because it’s a bright sunny day and my commute is mostly due west and people can’t see what’s behind them (or coming towards them on a 2way road if they’re [...]
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