[nfb-db] anyone on this list at hknc?

[Gene Richburg]

Hi Scott, no, actually I'm working with Christine Chan, she is my dars case 
manager, she has a lot of experience under her belt, she use to work with 
the deaf consumers back when we had the texas rehave connition, trc, then I 
have Gail Ploman, who is the team leader of the db apartment program that I 
live in.  Cc Davis is in Dalas, and we have 2 or 3 db specialests here in 
austin, so things are probably just about as covered as they can, if ya know 
what I mean!  Yes, it is in my plan for dars to get me aids, and that's one 
of the reasons I'm coming, I'm tired of putting up with local specialests 
who want to know how to work with a db person, they just don't know how, and 
some of them don't know all the ends and outs of hearing aids.  There 
telling me that my expectations are to high, but what doesn't make since, is 
that I seem to hear better with older aids then I do with new ones, like go 
figure.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Davert
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 12:31 PM
To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfb-db] anyone on this list at hknc?

Hi Gene.
I currently work at HKNC. Carol is an awesome audiologist, she is the
one who set me up with the hearing aids I currently use. I cannot say
for certain, as I'm sure you are aware, how much hearing aids will
help you, it's a personal thing where your experience may vary. Also,
hearing aids will not allow you, for example, to hear in loud
environments under most circumstances. Yes, you can try a pair out for
a couple of weeks to see if you like it. However, once you've decided
on a pair, HKNC cannot provide you with funding to get them. That
would fall back onto Dars, who would hopefully be inclined to include
that as an amendment on your IPE. Do you have contact with C C davis?
I assume all this work is being done with him? And so you are aware, I
do work at HKNC, but don't post messages here in the capacity of
someone working here. I'm my own person, and tell people both the
positive and negative aspects of things here as I see them. I was a
student here in 2006.

Hope this helps,
Scott
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On 11/1/13, Gene Richburg <gene5402 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi, I heard that there are people on this list who are at HKNC, I would 
> like
> to know if anyone knows how there system works in regards to getting 
> hearing
> aids?  I hear that they have an awesome audiologist, and they would be 
> able
> to get the right technologys together that will allow me to hear in any
> environment.  Now, my hearing loss is severe to profound, I have a very
> severe to profound loss in my left ear, with 25% hearing, then I believe 
> in
> my right ear, it’s just very severe, with only 15% hearing left in that 
> ear.
>  What I’m wanting to know, is how the process works, will they let me try
> aids out before Dars makes a commitment?  I am supposed to be going to 
> HKNC
> at some point, I just have to get my I e p  plan developed through Dars,
> then I gotta get this New york state medical evaluation form done, and do
> what ever that requires, and all that, I’ll get there some day hopefully
> soon though, and I can’t wait, cause like Heather said, this db program 
> here
> in austin tx sucks.  For example, they have made so many promices about 
> what
> they were gonna help me with, then broke them.  Last year, I took a 
> business
> class, and they took notes for me, and they said that when the training 
> was
> in the halfway period, they would go over the notes, and make sure I
> understood them, then when the classes wer all finished, we would go over
> all the notes, well they decided that they didn’t wanna do that, then 
> after
> it was all over with, then they told me that they couldn’t help me run the
> business, and I said, I know you can’t help me do that, but you can at
> leaste help me get the training and everything I needed to get started, 
> and
> they just kept repeating them selves, so I just told them screw it for 
> now,
> then I got an opportunity to go to HKNC, and I’m taking it, cause I want
> enough indipendents to not have to depend on the db program for anything.
> If anyone wants to hear of anything else the db program didn’t do, I’ll 
> tell
> you, I just don’t wanna go on and on unless people wanna hear about it 
> Lol.

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