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Coffee Cup Thoughts – 4

I’ve just processed 3 groups of 8 trainees through an introduction in my e-learning center. Despite having my hearing aids at nearly max volume, I guess my speech therapist was right; I can’t figure out what’s being said without lip reading, unlike a few months ago. Waiting for word on my cochlear implant surgery is [...]

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Coffee Cup Thoughts – 3

I’ve been hearing of this Deaf Society in Kuwait. But I’ve never seen anything that proves it exists. There’s a Kuwait Sports Club for the Deaf, but the society is supposed to be formed and running already if I’m not mistaken. I only saw a few newspaper articles which mentions the society, barely noticeable too. [...]

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Coffee Cup Thoughts – 2

Is it normal to create imaginary sound effects? Every day I wake up, get up to wash…I “hear” the water splashing. Then the pit pat of my slippers as I head to the kitchen to make my coffee, the sound of the water boiling in the kettle. The clinking of the spoon as I stir [...]

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Audism

I appreciate a person who asks the right unbiased questions when it comes to my hearing and is fully supportive without even being asked for it. The curiosity and the desire to know more; to even try and imagine being in my shoes is an act of true friendship. The comments, thoughts, humor and complete [...]

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