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style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline">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.</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>