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Aaron Patient Expert

California
Blog: http://growingsilence.blogspot.com
I am a 34-year-old IT professional with severe hearing loss that has been progressive over my lifetime. I wear hearing aids, and have been learning ASL and connecting with my local Deaf community for a couple years now. One of my children also carries the same genetic syndrome as me, and has... Full Bio
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5 years of ASL classes - DONE! by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I simply cannot believe that five years has blown by like a freight train.  It seems like yesterday I walked into that beginning class and took like 2 minutes to finger spe ... Read on »
Regal Captions All Movies With Special Glasses - A Review by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Regal has been busy working on equal access to movies!  I have heard it is their plan to roll closed-captioning for every showtime of every movie to all of their theaters. ... Read on »
First time using an ASL interpreter = WOW! (late-deaf) by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I had an important meeting this week.  The meeting room is huge, and what sound doesn't "disappear" turns into echoes.  To make matters worse, I knew for a fact there would ... Read on »
Rexton Cobalt 16 hearing aids - 3 year update by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness So, after having this set of hearing aids for three years now, I can say that I am still quite happy with them. The bluetooth streaming has proven to be an abs ... Read on »
Switched at Birth - bold writing choices last night! by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness A few ZVRS people came and gave a great presentation at Deaf Family Night several days ago.  Impressive stuff, and it appears overall to be the best choice for me right now ... Read on »
Switched at Birth - lazy signing? by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness So my 3-year-old son is rapidly learning ASL from me.  It's nothing short of amazing how he is accelerating.  One thing I haven't done much around him though is fingerspell ... Read on »
Teaching Deaf kids ASL - fingerspelling? by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness So my 3-year-old son is rapidly learning ASL from me.  It's nothing short of amazing how he is accelerating.  One thing I haven't done much around him though is fingerspell ... Read on »
No free VP through ZVRS? by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I do not currently have a VP.  If I go to ZVRS, it looks like everything is free if I trade in my Sorenson VP, but if I do not have a VP, then I need to pay?? Sor ... Read on »
ASL class over - again by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness The first trimester of my 5th year ASL class is over.  With only two short classes left, I find myself wondering what's next.  It has been really enriching to go so deep in ... Read on »
Rexton Cobalt 16 - added a new program by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness So I decided to switch up my programs a couple months back when I went in to get a replacement bluetooth receiver.  Program 1 is still "auto", but I changed program 2 to be ... Read on »
Lecture on Eugenics at Swarthmore - what a great night! by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Last night I got to see two, one-hour lectures from Dr. Brian Greenwald and Dr. Ben Bahan.  The first was about eugenics in American/Deaf history, focused somewhat on AGB a ... Read on »
Are cochlear implant users deaf? by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness John Lee Clark's post titled "Cochlear Implants: A Thought Experiment" hit on one topic I have given a bit of thought to myself      If you cannot hear without your CI o ... Read on »
Switched at Birth - clearing up some things, distorting others by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness First, I applaud the creators/writers of Switched at Birth for bringing common Deaf issues into the mainstream light.  Most people never think about any of these things.  P ... Read on »
Captioning ASL vlogs by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness This topic seems to always come up, but I have a fairly strong opinion about it, so I want to write a little blurb. It's true, the Hearing world seems to make very lit ... Read on »
Stigma of Hearing Loss by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness After reading the article posted on Jamie Berke's blog about hearing loss stigma, I felt the need to add my own experience. I think being late-deaf is a little like co ... Read on »
Best way to tell people you're Deaf? by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I'm curious about the different ways people indicate to hearing folks the you're Deaf. I also found myself wondering why, in a nation where a huge number of people understa ... Read on »
Switched at Birth - no captions on Netflix!! by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Of all the ironies, only the first couple episodes of Switched at Birth have captions on Netflix.  A show that has the power to increase awareness about the Deaf world, ina ... Read on »
NTID and Gallaudet dictionaries broken in Apple OS X "Lion" by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Just an FYI to all of you out there who may have these two dictionaries.  Do NOT upgrade to Lion if you use these dictionaries regularly, as they are not (yet) compatible w ... Read on »
Comcast charging for captions?! by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I subscribe to every movie channel, which means full, free access to all OnDemand movies for those channels. The other night I tried to watch Matchstick Men (made in 2 ... Read on »
Tips for traveling in London and the UK with an iPhone by Aaron Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I've learned a few new things that make travel in London a lot easier and thought I would share a few.  I use an iPhone on AT&T and it is a huge help to be able to fully us ... Read on »
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