Tonight!!!!

[Alpinestarhero]

Maria and I will be heard on Radio 4 in a program at 8pm (in 20mins) called "learning to be deaf". Listen for my guitar part :cool:

Its only a small bit that Maria and I get, so don't get too excited..

..although, we are :D

Matt

[Spiderman]

Maria and I will be heard on Radio 4 in a program at 8pm (in 20mins) called "learning to be deaf". Listen for my guitar part :cool:

Its only a small bit that Maria and I get, so don't get too excited..

..although, we are :D

Matt

So why is there no link provided for the Radio 4 live streaming? Presuming they do that, that is. :D

And are one of you guys deaf then? Or have i missed something here?

[Alpinestarhero]

I cant be bothered to do links...and I figured everyone can find Radio 4 easy peasy...

..but here's a link!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/0ulb9/

There is live streaming, but you need real player apparently so I put on the radio (92-95 fm)

Oh, and Maria is the one who is deaf :) but she can talk normally, dosnt sign, lipreads and wears two hearing aids. She's not a typical deaf person, considering some of the other people on the show...

Matt

[Spiderman]

Cheers. Tuned in now.

[tricky]

:cool: :thumbsup:

Interesting program, not sure how truly representative it was but was surprised about the different attitudes to signing/speaking expressed .

[Spiderman]

Interesting issues there, that being a hearing person who doesnt have any deaf friends i'd never been aware of.

I'm curious as to what Mr & Miss A*hero's views are on cochlear (sp?) implants now, i've seen a couple of documentries on that topic you see.

I hope thats not a personal question btw?

[TEL]

Nice one Matt & Maria :cool: interesting stuff there.

[Alpinestarhero]

(just to clarify, the guy interveiwed as matt isnt me - i didnt have any mention apart from when maria told me to be quiet)

Cochlear inplants? Maria says she dosnt want one; the operation is far too much and she probaly wont benefit much more than she does now with both her hearing aids.

Maria is happy to answer any qustions!

And i also thought it wasnt that representative; maria was the only person who was happy to be a deaf person in a hearing world (as the programe put it)

Matt

[Spiderman]

:oops: i thought the Matt was you.

Anyhoo thanks for answering the other thing. :D

[Alpinestarhero]

Hehe i thought that might arise when a Matt was introduced :oops:

Matt

[hovis]

well........................ i go out for the night & miss your claim to fame

sorry

[Ed]

I saw this post too late to swith on the radio.

A general comment - attitudes to deaf people are simply appalling. My mother is 75% deaf, she has no hearing in her right ear and 25% in the left. So people shout at her, consider her stupid, and are so abusive. I've seen her in floods tears so many times now because at age 83 she has had enough of peoples' rudeness, it's so hurtful.

So the next time you encounter a person with a hearing disability - thank your God that it's not you.

[Baph]

Bugger matt, I missed it. Sorry fella.

I'll check in the morning & see if R4 do the same as R1 & allow "listen again." If they do, I'll stick it on in the office for all to hear :D

Mainly just so I can have a giggle when Maria tells you to shut up :lol: ;)

[timwilky]

ok, this may or may not give you a smile.

My sister in law whilst training to be a nurse developed a tumor on the audio nerve from her lug hole to brain. After months of being fobbed off by her GP when she complained of headaches and eventually being referred to a trick cyclist for depression managed to get a proper diagnosis and the thing was removed. (It was the only proof that she has a brain as someone has actually seen it).

This left her deaf on her right side and lost control of the muscles on the lhs of her face. upsetting for a girl who had been a model. Well she eventually went back to uni. qualified as a nurse and ended up on the local ENT ward. Many a time the phone would ring, she would place it by habit on her right (deaf) ear. Complain loudly that she was fed up of these hoax calls with nobody there and put the receiver down.

she now has a bone anchor aid. looks horrid with a post screwed into her skull. she has managed to loose one and told she is now on her one and only replacement.

I do sympathise with anyone who is deaf and attempting to get on with their lives. I had a drinking partner who was profoundly deaf & dumb but a very friendly guy. when ignorant people would not look at him when they spoke he would get hold of their heads and realign their face so he could read their lips(he was a big guy, which enabled him to get away with it).

[Alpinestarhero]

I saw this post too late to swith on the radio.

A general comment - attitudes to deaf people are simply appalling. My mother is 75% deaf, she has no hearing in her right ear and 25% in the left. So people shout at her, consider her stupid, and are so abusive. I've seen her in floods tears so many times now because at age 83 she has had enough of peoples' rudeness, it's so hurtful.

So the next time you encounter a person with a hearing disability - thank your God that it's not you.

Sometimes maria receives similar treatment to this; the worst one was a trip to her school's career's advisor; he imediatly started to sign, but maira said she couldnt understand. Then he talked - but loudly, and really really over-exagerating his lip pattern. So maria still couldnt understand him! It took maria a few requests to get this guy to talk somewhere near what she could understand!

And other people think turning up the volume on the tv or radio helps; it dosnt, it just turns into a distorted mush as the hearing aids can't cope.

So the message, i guess, is this: being deaf means you just cant hear!

Matt

[Alpinestarhero]

I had a drinking partner who was profoundly deaf & dumb but a very friendly guy. when ignorant people would not look at him when they spoke he would get hold of their heads and realign their face so he could read their lips(he was a big guy, which enabled him to get away with it).

This made me and maria giggle; simple becuase we have experiance of this situation! :smt048 Mind you, I'm not about to go holding poeple's head in the right place for maria, and I dont think she'll be aligning people's heads...well, she does it to me (but sometimes I forget that she is deaf, because she understands so well through lip-reading, even without her hearing aids)

Maria has a light-heated story too; she was at a persons wedding, and it was the dinner. Some lady had been talking to maria, but maria didnt hear so was just looking about....thankfullly this lady was a doctor, and realised that maria was deaf (but then, it dosnt take a doctor to perhaps work that out when someone is wearing aids...) and just tapped her on the shoulder and asked if maria had heard her! No offence taken by either party :)

Thats sad about your sister in-law though; perhaps if the GP was better at his/her job, she would still have her hearing in her right ear..

Matt (and maria, too!)

[gettin2dizzy]

Listen again (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/learningtobedeaf)
Just going to listen to it now:)

[Baph]

Listen again (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/learningtobedeaf)
Just going to listen to it now:)
I did that this morning :thumbsup:

Matt comes across as guitar mad, and quite rightly gets told to shut it :D

Some interesting issues raised though that I hadn't thought of. Whilst I don't shout etc to deaf people, I do go out of my way a little to make sure they don't have to ask for clarification on things. Putting myself in their shoes for a second, that'd royally P me off!

[Alpinestarhero]

Guitar mad?

Yep :cool:

Good job they hadnt done the interveiw a month or two later, when I started learning stuff by symphony X...

Matt