Other people with soft failures ?? Please help

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Hi ,

Hope ABs technicians can figure something out for you. No way should

you have to put up with pain and annoying noises. You certainly have

more patience than I do, if this has happened twice before.

Meanwhile, go to the Office of Disabilities (or whatever it is called

at your college) and tell them you need assistance. CART reporting is

the best - they have a court reporter type out what is being said, and

you can take notes. A professional note taker is a second best, but ask

for CART. You are entitled to this accommodation under the " Equal

Opportunity in Education Act " , but you need to make the college aware of

your needs. You should also inform your instructor that you will need to

see what she or he says, so don't turn around when they are speaking to

you. Also anything that is video or audio will need to be transcribed

for you.

I went through school to become an Occupational Therapy Assistant and

lost all my hearing half way through. Had one prof who had a lecture on

tape, and he told me " one of the other students will take notes for you " .

I replied that it was nice, but he was REQUIRED to have a transcription

of the lecture for me, not ask some other student to do it. He tried to

get a student to listen to the lecture, but was told she didn't

understand all the technical terms being used. Well, HIRE a medical

transcriptionist. It's not my problem, it's his. He was informed, the

college was informed, but YOU will have to DEMAND the accommodations that

you need, because they will try to get away with not doing it for you.

So become your own advocate for your needs until they figure out what to

do with your implant. Until I got my Nucleus 24, I had these

accommodations. Since I can now understand almost everything, I

wouldn't need them. But good to know they are available. Yours for the

asking.

Good luck,

The Original

Posted by: " Norkus " ashnjayden@... ashley437

Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:19 pm (PST)

Hello ,

Thank you for your kind words. When I was first implanted I was not

given a choice. It was the only implant that the hospital I was sent

to carried and at that point I did not realize that there were

different companies. When you say a soft failure is anything excpet

the internal implanted part, how do they test for soft failures? If it

is not the internal device and it is not able to be fixed with

changing the external device why does it stop working? I am to the

point now where I cannot put it on without constant static and pain. I

cannot do this for much longer, I hate not being able to hear. And

like I said before I am a college student trying to function at a

hearing college. I just started my graduate studies in deaf education

and it will be very difficult to continue with the program without

being able to hear (and to have hearing and then all of a sudden not

have it again is so frustrating especially after it has happened twice

before.)

Thanks for your input. I will be taking all this information that I am

receiving here to my appointment with advanced bionics this week.