u/Then-Finding-5706

Background: I'm 24yo HoH since birth, oral, rely on lipreading and hearing aids in both ears. My first language is Hebrew, so English is already my second language, which means when I read an English transcript, I'm doing two things at once: processing the content and processing the language itself.

I've been thinking about how much harder that must be when ASL is your primary language and English text is essentially a third cognitive layer on top of an already demanding situation.

Is that accurate? When you're reading a live CART feed mid-lecture or reading subtitles/captions, does the language itself add to the load or do you process written English differently than spoken English?

I'm not trying to speak for this experience. I'm trying to understand it better from people who actually live it. No agenda, just listening.

Genuinely asking because I suspect the answer is yes and nobody talks about it honestly.

I'm HoH ((severe high frequency loss, two hearing aids) and I've been reading a lot about how DHH students manage in higher education. The official answer is always "CART service" or "use an app." But from what I can tell, even with CART you're stuck reading a plain text feed in one browser tab while the actual lecture is happening somewhere else on your screen.

What I want to know is: in practice, when you're in a fast lecture and you have to choose between following the content and writing something down, what do you actually do? do you catch up after? do you rely entirely on the transcript? do you just accept you'll miss things?

I'm asking because i think the tools that exist right now are designed around a fantasy version of this problem, not the real one. Happy to be proven wrong.