I am an hearing impaired Muggle born with the loss but misdiagnosed until 16 as Asphasic and Mentelly challenged. I have fought many battles and won in spite of professional s before and after correct diagnosis. Stating I will never graduate from college or have a good job. I did both ... graduated from San Francisco state in Psy ... and had some self made jobs - in the hearing world and profffesionsls were shocked ( Audiologists/ proffessors.. etc. . More folks in my life say I cannot and in spite a lot of self esteem issues and lack of confidence that I fight all the time- I do / can do in spite of them.
Before cellphones; t coils allowed me to be more okay in the hearing world. Nowadays; no- although the InnoCaption helps- not enough. I have taught Audiologists and other folks that t coils acts like an fm receiver for me- better to hear tv if there is no captioning availabl or music iPod . The loop in some train stations and t coil have smooth things out for me. My big issue in life is to make medical offices more in time to hearing impaired. MuLe n Care has done some good work in that but they still need some work. They still call and I messaged the office stating no. They will work with me ... with reminders sometimes.
We need 911 to be text friendly. Not yet in most states and that’s is not good. Scary
My hearing loss has worsened and it is making things more difficult. But critters and books helps a lot.
Sorry for long bit.