Being Diagnosed Hard Of Hearing | STORYTIME feat. Happy Being Bee
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- This week, Brenda Quigg of 'Happy being Bee' comes on the podcast to share her stories of being hard of hearing.
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Such an amazingly interesting episode. Many years ago I went to school to study to be an American sign language interpreter, but quickly learned that although I love it, I was horrible at it so made the mistake of giving it up and now 20+ years later have lost most of the skill. 💔
Another brilliant guest & episode. So interesting & again learned new things ❤️
I can relate to Bee being hard of hearing, I lost half of my hearing through mumps when I was one. I've experienced the same struggles and stereotypical comments. I think Bee is awesome and a great role model for young people within the Deaf community.
I did baby sign with my son expecting it to not work, but it did. At 9 months old we had our first argument between “more” and “all done” and at that point I was thinking I’d made a horrible mistake, but it turned out to be very helpful as he said his first word “hi” on time, but then didn’t say anything else for over a year. I don’t think the delay in speech had anything to do with being able to sign, though. I think it had more to do with me being the only one at home with him and being very introverted, I found carrying a one sided conversation all day to be very difficult and unnatural so I just didn’t talk to him enough. Once I really forced myself to get better at it for his sake (and to avoid talking to every stranger we met) he started catching up. (being the family extrovert, he would use his one word to start conversations with every person we passed at the grocery store. He would look at them in the eye, smile big, and say, “hi!” and they would say “hi! What’s your name? How old are you?” And he would say, “hi!” And I would awkwardly have to navigate us out of the situation.)
....wow. I'm amazed at how many of your videos/topics can remind me of Matthew. the last 7-8 years of his life he had issues with both his hearing and eyesight due to demylenating disease (on top of everything else). So many of the things Brenda touched on were quite familiar. There are other things too but I'm sure you're limited on time and Brenda can't cover EVERYTHING there is to try to remember. I think one thing to remember is to SLOW YOUR CADENCE. It took me forever to remember to do that. We are so accustomed to moving quickly and do everything now, now, now, that we don't stop to consider how hard we're making a conversation with someone who is hard of hearing.They are probably trying to lip read. Another thing Matthew would get pissed about was when we were at say a doctor appointment and the doctor would realise Matthew had hearing issues,so would start to talk to me as if Matthew wasn't in the room. I understand it is just the way people are, but it is really inconsiderate to the person with hearing disabilities. So please remember to address the person who asked you a question or at least come back to them when you're talking. .....alright, I'm droning on and on and on. thank you for another informative video and thanks to Brenda for participating in it as well.