Table Manners Hearing loss, lipreading, signing, fingerspelling & eating Signing is going well, Sue’s gaining confidence in her group as she increases her vocabulary. Even so, the first exam a couple of weeks ago was a bit of a tribulation. Not that it was hard so much as there was so much to remember to include – […]
To Tell or Not to Tell? Should Sue wear her ‘Deaf Rider’ vest when horseriding? Anyone out there got experience of wearing an informative reflective vest? For a few years now Sue and I have discussed the merits of her wearing a ‘Deaf Rider’ vest. I’ve got a thick marker pen and plain hi-viz waistcoats are available for a couple of […]
Forward Thinking Adapting to hearing loss Laptop and pc developed serious problems for Christmas, all better now. New Year frequently involves looking forward and back. When it comes to hearing loss I’ve found looking back frequently unhelpful, rather than how much improvement Sue and I (obviously, mostly Sue) have made in communication and coping I too often […]
Times of the Signs Signing on TV Those old enough to recall Jackanory (BBC story telling series for youngsters, 1965 – 1996) will have their favourite story tellers. The talents of Bernard Cribbins and Kenneth Williams always prompted me to pretend it was my young brother who wanted programme on, me being too old. Sue is enjoying Crackernory, the […]
Beowulf the Scourge of Hearing Loss? Hearing loss and sound sensitivity During education I had girlfriends, who had fathers, who had misgivings about me. Well, not just me, any lad who spent time with their daughters – which I now fully understand. However Margaret’s father, the classics master at the local public school, liked me not for of the purity of […]
Deaf characters in novels, again Colin Dexter and deaf character Nicholas Quinn In a previous blog I mentioned listening to a radio play of the Morse story, ‘The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn’. I was incensed at the discrimination and ill-will aimed at the eponymous Mr Quinn because of his deafness, by his colleagues. When I found out that the […]
Looking and Learning British Sign Language (BSL) for people with acquired hearing loss Week three of BSL and Sue’s not feeling so anxious or out of place. Not criticising tutor or classmates, it’s just that for some deaf people – more than hearing folk could imagine – entering a learning situation with 16 (hearing) strangers is extremely intimidating […]
