[nfb-db] Frustrated with Screenreaders

[Cherifields at aol.com]

Cathy that's wonderful for you.  I'm glad it has given you back what  you 
have missed.  Tracie and Katie must still need that little push forward  new 
sounds that they haven't heard in so long.  They both still want to  rely on 
sign language interpreters, especially in a group setting instead of  
trying to hear.  So it makes me think that this is not as perfect as is  said.  
Maybe they just don't want to trust their hearing yet. If insurance  is going 
to pay this big amount it needs to have a higher success rate than  still 
needing interpreters.  Wouldn't you agree?
Cheri Fields
 
In a message dated 1/19/2014 1:38:03 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
guillcat at gmail.com writes:

I cannot  determine, at this point, the difference between perpendicular 
and parallel  traffice.  The reason is because I haven't reached that 
particular  question on my list of priorities yet.  The last few years with my CIs  
have been so busy with all the new busy-ness of hearing people and audio 
books  and podcasts and music and the whispers of my husband and the birds and 
voices  of friends and the sermons of my minister that I have not actually 
taken the  time to stand on the street corner.  That's what SSPs are for.  
And  no, I cannot tell where a sound is coming from unless there is only one 
sound  in a quiet environment.  BUT, please, oh please, do not accept any 
brand  of implant for which the surgeon or audi tells you there are  
limitations.  For example if you are told, before implantation, that you  will not be 
able to enjoy music you haven't heard before, you do not want to  settle for 
that implant.  The only implant you should accept is the one  that will 
provide you with unl
imited sound capability.  You should be  limited only by your physical 
capabilities combined on your brain's level of  adaptation to the signals 
carried by the auditory nerve.  Let me  explain.  On the day my implant was first 
activated, my brain could  withstand only a certain amount of sound because 
it hadn't received sound in a  long time.  The very next day, the audi 
turned the volume a great deal  louder and I was able to hear softer sounds.  
That's because my brain had  adjusted to hearing the new sounds in the 24 hours 
since the implant was  activated.  Then for the next 30 days I used 
external controls to  increase volume incrementally until I saw the audi again.  
Each time I  turned up the volume, I gained mor esounds and heard more of the 
conversations  around me.  My brain would not have been able to tolerate all 
this volume  in the first few days.  

My insurance also paid for a speech  therapist during this adjustment 
period.  The therapist tracked my  progress in a manner that revealed which 
particular sounds I needed more  exposure to in order to train my brain to hear 
them well.  

You  say magical?  I say miraculous.  There are no limits, provided you  
are medically, physically, a candidate for implantation.

Cathy  Miller


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