Hearing but no aids

loony

How are people communicating on the phone with hearing loss? I don’t wear hearing aid I can hear sound but can’t make out words without facial gesture and lip reading. I’ve tried txt relay in the past but it takes forever, specially so called professionals don’t seem to understand the words email or text

dolfrog

@loony

Having problems processing words, the sounds of speech, can be due to the Temporal type of Auditory Processing Disorder (APD).

I have the Temporal type of Auditory Processing Disorder, which is the underlying cause of my problems with rapid speech, and my dyslexia symptom

The key assessment test is the Random Gap Detection Test which attempts to measure the size of gap between sounds the brain can process and identify. When i did the test in 2003 it did not include a gap between sounds large enough for me to identify.

loony

dolfrog, so any tips on using phone or a no go ?

SheffieldMan1976

Way back when I first got a mobile phone (what the Americans call a Cell Phone), I had to have a special adaptor for it to work with the hearing aid, nearly 25 years later, I can mostly use a phone without the adaptors, it's just the annoyingly **** signal on my current Network, almost no signal in most of Sheffield.

dolfrog

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1109416#Comment_1109416

I have Auditory Processing Disorder (APD), and I am not able to process and identify some of the sounds I hear, which includes the sounds of rapid speech, and long conversations.

I am phone phobic, as like you I need to visually lip read what a pe5rson is saying face to face. I was told by an audiology researcher that every one can lip read but until he told me, and later while i was watching a UK film on TV I turned the sound off, and there I was lip reading.

I need people to communicate either Face to Face or using email. If there is a long email massage I can copy and paste it to my word processor where I can then start each new sentence on a new line, and then alternate the font colour between the sentences between green and blue. I also use a light blue or light green background colour to avoid using the standard white background.

I also use graphics to help explain my issues