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

[Patricia Hubschman]

Thank you,  Scott. YYou just answered my question - where you do Outreach.
I'm not sure what that is though.
I'm seeing Carol H on Thursday to try  a hearing aid on my non ci  ear.  My
CI audi  wants to  balance me out.  
I was told too that they don't help with funding,  but Carol said that
sometimes the state will help out.  


Trish

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-db [mailto:nfb-db-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Scott Davert
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 1:32 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
Sent from my iPhone

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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