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Hearing aides, glasses/optical stuff, dentists etc... are all covered here on our social system which is in a medium income country - I highly doubt those would not have been covered in Norway.
You can go private as well if you have the money and be done faster, but general population is still covered.
I'm not sure to what degree those are covered. My grandma got hearing aids a few months back. Expensive ones specially tailored for her. The price was 6000 NOK per ear. Ca 970 USD. Tests for my eyes are covered by the state, glasses I'm not sure. But one pair cost way less than one day's work, so it's not expensive. Dentist is covered 100% until 19. The it's 75% for a few years.
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So so really. I worked as teacher sub last school year, but got too few hours for it to work financially. Got a new job as tech support late May, but it didn't work out. I didn't like it there, and the bosses decided to cut costs, so as the newest guy I'm out of work after next week. I'm applying for new jobs right now. I really hope to get a more long term teacher sub job, there are some ads out now. But I'll take what I get. I have money that will last ca two months. I've had two weeks vacation now, which I really needed. Got to reconnect with my dad, whom I have had strained relations with for a few years. I hope he's changed to the better now, it seems good for now. But I've learned to not expect too much from him.
Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made - Psalms 139.14a
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"What do you mean by wait 30 minutes? That part makes no sense to me. :
when I went to walmart - the pharmacy. the insulin is like right there... all they ever did was open the cooler and hand it to me.... but still had to wait 30 minutes... it's like right there?!?
It's not just the hearing aids, it's the things that weren't done with them when they were 5, 6 and 7. Even if you were to pay for the aids, it would be difficult to have them be as productive as they could be without the therapy when they are little. I was lucky, I did speech therapy when I was little. Was it covered? No.
Oh, Medicaid will pay for speech therapy, and occupational therapy and the schools systems will pay for special education ...but not for hearing aids.
"I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!
Oh, Medicaid will pay for speech therapy, and occupational therapy and the schools systems will pay for special education ...but not for hearing aids.
Back in the day - they wouldn't even admit me unless I agreed to be in special education. It was a battle then. My mother wanted me out of the special ed ghetto and I'm thankful she fought to get me out of it. Every year they had to do an assessment whether or not I would stay mainstreamed. I had a good principal who took the chance.
The irony is in high school I had a teacher deliberately single me out so that I would write her final exam as a ringer. My father commented on that at the time. I wasn't too keen on her altering marks (entering in marks that were different than what she put on my paper). Made my life hell that year, but it all got straightened out in the end.
It's very rare and very hard for hearing impaired folks to survive college. I wish I had been prepared more when I left.
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So so really. I worked as teacher sub last school year, but got too few hours for it to work financially. Got a new job as tech support late May, but it didn't work out. I didn't like it there, and the bosses decided to cut costs, so as the newest guy I'm out of work after next week. I'm applying for new jobs right now. I really hope to get a more long term teacher sub job, there are some ads out now. But I'll take what I get. I have money that will last ca two months. I've had two weeks vacation now, which I really needed. Got to reconnect with my dad, whom I have had strained relations with for a few years. I hope he's changed to the better now, it seems good for now. But I've learned to not expect too much from him.
Back in the day - they wouldn't even admit me unless I agreed to be in special education. It was a battle then. My mother wanted me out of the special ed ghetto and I'm thankful she fought to get me out of it. Every year they had to do an assessment whether or not I would stay mainstreamed. I had a good principal who took the chance.
The irony is in high school I had a teacher deliberately single me out so that I would write her final exam as a ringer. My father commented on that at the time. I wasn't too keen on her altering marks (entering in marks that were different than what she put on my paper). Made my life hell that year, but it all got straightened out in the end.
It's very rare and very hard for hearing impaired folks to survive college. I wish I had been prepared more when I left.
My school put me in a special-ed/BD program after I told the principle I wouldn't be taught by simpletons with a lower IQ than me.
I share your "the system didn't do enough for me" pain.
I wonder if hearing aides are as expensive elsewhere in the world as they are here. I mean sure, I appreciate the miniaturization, the micro-electronics, but geeze, Google glass is a video camera, projector, microphone, voice command computer and headphones crammed into something the size of one temple piece of a spectacle for 1/3rd the price.
"I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!
I share your "the system didn't do enough for me" pain.
Mainstreaming was actually something I found really difficult, but not for the reasons you might expect.
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"Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
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I wonder if hearing aides are as expensive elsewhere in the world as they are here. I mean sure, I appreciate the miniaturization, the micro-electronics, but geeze, Google glass is a video camera, projector, microphone, voice command computer and headphones crammed into something the size of one temple piece of a spectacle for 1/3rd the price.
IMO? Hearing aids are a dead-end technology. What you're basically trying to do is correct hearing and then sending the 'corrected' hearing down the same faulty pipe.
I wish they had a simulator, Doc. It's hard to explain to someone who hasn't worn them. Things sound very different.
With my glasses, it changes the light to truly correct for my vision problems. You can slip over a slide which shows the corrected vision. Hearing aids? You can test for acuity, but that's difficult to do so in a way that actually works.
Scouse Git (2)La Fayette Adam SmithSolomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
"Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!
Were you rabidly political back then? That would be my first guess.
Not particularly, no. I was in debating and one of the things that teaches you is how to accurately assess arguments on both sides. One day you'll be arguing about how communism is the only way, and the next, about how capitalism is superior to everything. As an exercise.
We debated everything and anything.
No, it had more to do with me being awkward around the other students, not knowing what the other students liked, not really having much in common with them in terms of experience and just the usual sense of being an alien in a culture not my own. I *was* the foreign exchange student for lack of a better term.
I mostly stayed in the library, read books and worked on my homework.
Scouse Git (2)La Fayette Adam SmithSolomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
"Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!
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