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What are the biggest difficulties deaf or HOH people face nowadays?
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Mar 20, 2021 | Replies (68)Comment receiving replies
FYI- lots of areas giving away free captioned phones and special smoke alarms or the hearing challenged. I received my smoke alarm when there was a fire near me. The fire department and the neighborhood association have a record of me asking foe help in finding a cheap alarm system. Couple of years have passed until the fire happened near me. A lot of areas afterwards installs these alarms for free.
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@bookysue, Hi bookysue. So far I am managing well with my Panasonic amplified landline (its booster works well for increasing the volume, and it also has a "slow talk" feature which usually is enough to make it easier to hear fast speakers). Hopefully it will be awhile yet before I will need a captioned phone. I have happily been using closed captioning on all TV programs.
(My TV may be an "ancient" Plasma/vintage 2013. I am holding off as long as possible before I am forced to replace it with a privacy invasive smart TV. A recent Consumer Reports article indicated the only way to avoid the privacy invasive spying of a smart TV is by never connecting the TV's internet). In 2013 I had to have strobelights/horns installed in my condo (they are connected to my condo building's existing fire alarm system) The horns so far are impossible to ignore.