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From: Jack.O'keeffe@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jack O'keeffe)
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Subject: Re: Lip reading on TV.
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Date: 13 Feb 90 05:37:18 GMT
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 AS> I've never been able to wear aids and I doubt if I could adjust
 AS> to them now if I could.

I wear  BTE BiCROS aids Ann, and I despise the infernal things.  But
it would be difficult getting along without them.  I keep reading that
better technology (digital) is just around the corner, but it sure is
taking a long time to turn that corner :-)

 AS> I don't think I could even adjust to hearing sounds now if
 AS> surgery or even a cochlea implant would help.

I know three people who have gone for the cochlea implant.  Two had
near miraculous results and one was a flop.  It would take lots of
courage to do it.

 AS> A number of my hearing friends love my telecaption decoders.

I've experienced the same thing.  Many of them had never even heard
of captioned TV until they saw mine.  Do you have any fullscreen text
caption service in OK?  Other than ABCs program listings which are
everywhere, I suppose.  We have one text news service called PENNTEXT
which the UHF PBS channel carries.

Say, why are we doing this on disABLED?  We must be boring the hearing
people to tears on this echo.  Let's move to SilentTalk.

Jack.

... I never listen!

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