I have worn hearing aids since I was in first grade. But at that age, I was fitted with a body aid. That was awful. But, I could hear. Now, I don’t like being without my aids, because my mom was not keen on me learning ASL. She wanted me to be mainstreamed. Relying on speech, hearing and lip reading. The speech and lip reading therapy wasn’t fun ( I never got candy as a reward, just praise...lol)I missed out on activities with other kids. I wished my mom would have insisted I learn ASL. I think she thought it would make my life easier if I never learned it. It didn’t. I still had the same challenges. People would have to repeat themselves often. They would talk behind me as if I could understand what they were saying. Many would mumble or look away when they spoke. Funny thing, whenever I didn’t want to listen to my mom I would pretend I never heard her. Here I am in my 50’s just now learning ASL.😃

I Love you guys. Please don't stop posting.

I’m an audiologist (still relatively new at my job) so I work with hearing aids all day long. It’s always a fun challenge when someone comes in with a pair of old aids. The oldest pair of hearing aids I’ve worked on were from 2006!

When something is really loud I would take off my CI and my hearing friends or family would just glare at me 🤣

I wanted to hear his voice! 😁 Could you guys talk about what learning to read and write English is like for Deaf people? I find that fascinating.

As someone who is hard of hearing, I 100% back those who rip their hearing aids out at home. I'm the same way. I sometimes get hearing fatigue from hearing all day.

I still wear hearing aids, but as soon as I get home from work, I take them off for some quiet time. Great to see you back again!

Great discussion. I especially liked how you emphasized that everyone is different and soes what works for them. I wear hearing aids which allow me to hear maybe 75% of what is directed at me. I lost my hearing at 50 and don't have a circle of friends or family who use ASL, so i am dependent on these devices. I do love being able to disconnect them when food shopping or while walking in a noisy city. I feel like it is my little secret. Enjoying your posts.

I am so glad that you guys took the time to talk about hearing aids, I can so relate to breaking my hearing aids, even have taken showers forgetting they were on a few times, one time I “lost” them at an amusement park (they were knocked out while I was in the ball pit) never to be found, another time I was in the local ER and the hospital put me through an MRI (lucky me, even though the HAs were damaged the hospital paid the total cost to replace them both). After college my hearing loss took a huge nose dive and I now have a CI in my left ear and I’m still wearing a HA in the right ear (can’t get a CI for the right ear due to a shunt for hydrocephalus). Soon the CI will completely take over the function of the HA making the HA useless. I’m likely at that moment but I’ll deal with it. But I must say wearing a HA is lots of work, and I can totally relate to a lot of what you were saying Zach, it’s a struggle financially as well as emotionally. It’s a choice not just for you but the whole family. Whatever someone chooses is the right path for them! Thank you for sharing this and being so honest about your journey Zach and Courtney!!!

Thank you for taking the time to do all this. I used to learn song language from the youth minstry I attended. They had a deaf minstry and I would follow along. I aged out of the group and eventually left the church to attend a different one. Unfortunately, I never meet anyone to sign with. I lost a lot of what I learned. It would be nice to learn over again, but like last time, even if I pick up enough to have minimal conversation, I'll eventually lose it again. But God put it on my heart to pick it back up. From some of the videos, looks like you are as well. Keep up the good work, blessings.

I am profoundly deaf as well, new only 4 years , I am 34 And I thought I am strange when I say that with my hearing aids I just hear muffled blur sounds and speach and words don't sound right. It takes so much energy to hear with HA's but everyone around me only speaks and won't learn ASL. So I have to be verbal and read lips, and people get irritated with me when I can't hear through walls. The way you explained how hearing aids work for you made so much sense and makes me feel not alone in my dislike for hearing aids. Thank you for your story, you guys are amazing. I love watching this Because I don't need CC to know what is said. Have a wonderful day 👍🤟

I love watching yalls vlogs. My son is profoundly deaf in his right ear. He's got a BAHA now, just hit 2 years and it's helped so much. We didn't know he was deaf until prek tested him. I won't go into that long story, but sometimes it's incredibly frustrating to explain to teachers and people that just because his BAHA is there does NOT mean everything is fixed. So I understand the muddled sounds and speech etc.. he goes through that a lot.

I used to have those hearing aids when I was little. I had bright red ear molds with them too. They’re huge! I will never forget that when I was getting yelled at by my parents for something I would just switch my hearing aids off and they would just laugh. Very interesting video!

Wow! I’m one of those that wore mine all the time. Well, in my good side. My bad side was like that, just noise. I now have cochlear implants and love them! I love watching you guys sign bc I didn’t ever learn very much. 😊

About the hearing aids, I had them when I was really young about three years old and my mom and I (two)were in the car. She was driving and wouldn’t let me have sweets. I then took my hearing aids off and threw it out of the window🤭🤭 my mom had to drive back and try to find it, causing loads of traffic. Keep up with the videos you’re doing great!

I really did learn something so thank you. I’ve often wondered why deaf people wouldn’t at least try a hearing out- not to be insulting, I was just curious to know why. So thank you for teaching me something. I enjoy watching your vlogs about life and your beautiful family 😊

Great video, absolutely love your channel !!

Yay u guys posted i just love ur video

I wore hearing aid for 3 years. I've had 26 surgeries on my ears and gradually over time my hearing decreased. When I was 30 I wore them for 3 years. Now I'm 35. There was a new surgery avail, so that's why I stopped wearing them. I still miss being able to turn off my hearing. And hearing was so exhausting all my life because I had to concentrate so hard to be able to hear. Now it's not hard anymore but those frustrating feelings still come up for me sometimes because I was always so worried that people would get annoyed by me always say what. My new phone died this week so I pulled out my old phone and have been using it. The first time the alarm went off, it scared the crap out of me because I needed it so loud the last time I used that phone. Haha. I really enjoy watching your guys' channel.

you guys are so amazing and such a cute couple 💕💕

You guys are awesome! Thanks for reminding me to hit the thumbs up 😂 💕👍

i know this is an old video and I don't know if y'all check your comments anymore but I just wanted to say thank you so much for posting this. it makes me feel validated that i am Deaf even though I can hear a little with my hearing aids! :)

Another thing Zach touched on is how expensive an no insurance coverage for them. Mine are 4 thousand dollars and that was for mid grade ones and my left ear still doesn't work right so it comes out of pocket to fix. Thank you for touching on the subject of how much up keep really is.

I ALWAYS learn something new watching your videos. Thanks zach for modeling your hearing aids i didn't think theyd still fit or just assumed i guess🤔

I loved this video. So much of it made me laugh. You both have a great sense of humor haha. Court your hair is so long, you can spare some for Zach's ear haha

Just 1 thing : I love this couple😄

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My girlfriend's first hearing aids were two ear pieces that were connected to an amplifier she wore under her shirt. That probably indicates how old she is.

So interesting. Zach's relationship with hearing aids is similar to mine with eyeglasses. I was diagnosed with unilateral astigmatism at 6 and, although it was very light, got prescribed glasses to wear at last during reading. I never really accustomed to them. They feel heavy on my nose and don't even fit on my face. When I was younger I liked to experiment with uncommonly used designs that seemed so cool until I didn't like them no more. And so I kept leaving them everywhere and destroyed more than a pair by sitting or stepping on them. But every time I would go to the optician to get a new pair. I just liked trying on different models, I guess. Then in high school there was a friend of mine who got a nice pair with a transparent frame. I was startled because never thought of such a possibility. They're my lasting ones so far and the most used, too (still using them 20 years later. Left lens has been changed twice to accommodate new eye's needs), although I have to say I use them only when I feel my eyes burning or my sight is blurred. What probably made the difference, apart from a comfier design, was the fact they've been my most expensive glasses ever: so I really had a motivation for handling them with care!

Y’all made me laugh so hard! I laughed the most when you was talking about the hair in your ears being dead except maybe one. Lol 😂 but yes keep it up! Make more videos! Y’all should do a video of y’all ordering whatever someone in front of you guys orders! I think it’ll be a fun video?

Thank you for your great videos! I love these ones where you just tell stories. Courtney, I was wondering if your family has learned ASL. I saw in one video you said your mom was just starting to learn. Is she able to communicate with Zach via signing now? What about other family members? Keep posting great content. Thanks!

Nice vlog guys. Interesting childhood memories zach, looks like cleaning old closet can bring some good vlogs.

I wear hearing aids now and they have bluetooth and are paired with my phone. Sometimes at work when coworkers are too loud, I use the HA app to mute the world. :D

Love your videos and stories. Would be fun to do a mukbang

hearing aids my you one please hope don't stop posting guys 😉

Where do you guys get your music? I love it!

My dad wore hearing aids and had high pitch issues. Although he was since age 4, there were sounds that drove him through the roof

I love this. I wear hearing aids right now.. and I always wanna identify myself as a deaf person. Lately with my hearing aids, I haven't been too happy with them, so I started to not wear them, i feel better!

I used to have hearing aids when I was little and now I have cochlear implants. I like to take them off when I’m by myself because it’s peaceful and don’t have to hear any noise around me 😂. Love watching you guys x

I can kind of relate. I keep my hearing aid with my keys and wallet and prefer to just be my HoH self at home.

I imagined Zach’s single hair in his ear 🤣🤣🤣

I love this vlog It is so super cool You guys are super super cute!😍😍 I am always ecstatic when the notification comes up on my phone that you posted another video Keep doing what your doing! I LOVE IT 🥰🥰😍😍😍 I agree with Courtney though, it was very odd seeing Zach with Hearing aids in😜 Question for the both of you: Have you ever had a speaking convo with one another? For Zach: Was it an easy or hard change from having hearing aids to not having hearing aids?

“NANO”, the hearing-aid company that’s advertising on their video, has a buy-one-get-one-free offer right now. Total for TWO hearing-aids = $797.00 (approx. $400.00 each!).

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I'm wondering if you ever tried bone conduction headphones? It sends vibrations to your inner ear and bypasses the eardrums and I know it gives some deaf people the possibility to listen to audio, but it obviously depends on if your inner ear is damaged or not.

Zach, what has your experience learning English grammar been like...especially since sentences are structured quite differently in ASL?

My husband is hard of hearing at 27 years old and I struggle to remember to sign to him even when he keeps saying what because he doesn’t always seem hard of hearing his hearing aids do work, but not all situations do they work well. Also, he still needs to learn how to sign because we only discovered he was hard of hearing a year ago.

I tried a hearing aid once in my left ear (my right ear is too deaf). My left ear has severe crackling of sound and it hurts so much and I'm HoH in that ear. I felt traumatized with the hearing aid because of that so I gave it back. Now I use an earplug to push out the sound distortion so I'm at PEACE with no sounds. I lost my hearing overnight at age 17. I'm now 37. I miss music but I'm at peace with it

If your hearing aids accidentally gets washed in the washing machine, they can still work. Just don't turn them on right away. Instead open to the battery compartment and place it near a heat source eg a radiator, and let them dry for 3-4 days or a whole week. Then replace the battery and turn them on. I even saved an old fashioned Nokia phone that way.

One question if you have hearing aids and you can hear and your talking then why do people still us sign language ? Or is it just what they do to still communicate?

If anyone deaf or HoH wants to chime in and tell us your experience with them and why you use/don't use your hearing aids, I and I'm sure everyone else subbed to this channel who's not deaf/HoH would be very interested to know ! I think people try hearing aids because they are pressured into at least trying it to see if they'd prefer it by their parents, spouses, etc(I see this as a reasonable thing to do, and should be in no way offensive to the deaf/HoH person, weather or not it is... I wouldn't have the slightest clue); at least give them the opportunity to make an informed decision about it on their own. What I mean is, they want you to at least open the door and take a step through and look before you decide to barricade the door shut and never look back XD I suspect the reason people stop using their hearing aids is because they become more and more accustom to... I don't want to say life as a deaf or HoH person, but I guess, hearing becomes less and less appealing as they become accustomed to life ? if that makes sense ? This channel has such fantastic content, I absolutely love it, keep up the great work and I wish you two all the best !

I have a question for you! Do your siblings also Sign? If yes, did they take classes or just grow up learning with you and your parents? :)

I want to know Zachs college experience! Youre both so cuuute

I prefer not to wear my hearing aids. Too much noise, and the very ironic thing is, I can hear high pitch noises really well, but they give me headaches. But since I am just now learning ASL, I must rely on my hearing aids just to be able to communicate with people. The other reason why I don't like my hearing aids, is since there's a mold in the ear blocking air from getting in, I get ear infections from that. It's annoying. I am so content and at peace running around without my hearing aids.

I don’t really understand the choice to not use hearing aids. I don’t know why you wouldn’t grab hold of every tool you can to help cope with an unforgiving world. That said, it must be such a blessing to have that choice.

Hi! I was wondering what both of you think about interpreters having tattoos? What do you think Courtney as an interpreter yourself, and what does Zach think? Are they disturbing in any way?

I would not see any point in using hearing aids if I could not hear anything clearly or just a few loud things with hearing aids. I find it hard and draining and like all the sounds take over my brain and subtract from my other abilities and senses when I have used hearing aids. I'm more on the hearing side of the curve, but now I don't understand speech language anymore bc of brain fatigue and sign language deprivation (hearing people refusing to use interpreters and forcing me to lipread and read and write all the time instead, until my brain broke even more).

So interesting!! You said people speaking sounded muffled. Do you think you’d have understood spoken English if you did hear it well? I wonder how that works. It seems like it would have almost been like an English speaker trying to hear in Arabic for the first time. It would sound crazy..

I had a hearing aid when I was in 3rd grade but didn’t really work for me. Hearing Aids won’t work for me now but I am in the process of getting cochlear implants though.

See you again soon🙏🏿

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I'm starting to get really bummed that after a quick ad the captions will be disabled. It's happened in several videos now. Not sure if there's anything y'all can do but it seems to be a thing happening often on your videos only.

hey, zack would you laugh if someone came up to you and started signing in simple asl and then halfway through they just randomly sign "I am slow wow."?

How long year?

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Dead? So funny 😆

Deaf and hearing aid? The hearing aid person is hard to listen sound. Sound like a drum vague How do a person hear sound? Hearing aid and implant hearing aid were not exactly. Inner uses hammer shoe and anvil For example the drum is not normal like a static plastic bottle. Why deaf people need to hear sounds? Quality.... Cost of warranty the sound of hearing aid is