Loud spots to avoid for those with hearing impairment? + Loud restaurants?

[mamabunny]

I really appreciate all your input. She sometimes will do the same- sit back and be quiet, and I can see with this having something to watch, that would make it potentially more enjoyable for her (vs. just sitting out and missing out on the whole conversation). She pointed out to me "Mom, I can read the menu now!" ha! Meaning she's comfortable not having to do the back and forth conversation about that at least.

I do think we're going to go for it because she really seems interested in the step dancing part, but all this input has been super helpful.

Have you considered some hearing protection to help mitigate some of the louder sounds? If she is not overwhelmed visually, that might help her enjoy Raglan Road

 

[Talking Hands]

I am hard of hearing and prefer not to wear my hearing aids in loud environments. I do speech read as well as sign so have to rely my eyes if I am not wearing aids. My husband has a total loss in one ear and doesn’t wear his BAHA if we know it will be loud. It may be that she has hypercusis and loud sounds are painful so noise cancelling headphones might help. This is true with me.

 

[Tangled Pink]

Hello!
I cannot believe this thought didn't occur to me until just now- we travel this coming week! Hoping you'll all be able to fill me in on the best way to go about this!

One of my children is hearing impaired (single sided deafness) and she does not do particularly well in incredibly noisy environments. She really struggles most in environments with competing background noise. Loud noises themselves don't bother her, but she does pretty quickly lose ability to localize/identify where noise is coming from if the full environment is loud. At home, we avoid restaurants that are crazy noisy, for example, because it's just not fun for her.... but most places, she really does do great and you'd never know about her hearing impairment. Our basic rule of thumb is if you need to raise your voice to be heard above music, it's too loud for her to enjoy.

Does anyone have pointers for things to avoid/know? Is Disney responsive to things like asking to sit further away from a speaker, for example?

I booked an ADR at Raglan Road and now I'm questioning if that was smart. She loves step dancing (my primary motivation for booking it) but in another thread I saw mentioned that it is reallly loud in there, which I hadn't even considered. We also have an ADR at Biergarten but I'm imagining that being kind of a more "open air environment" (maybe?) and with more intermittent noise, she'd do okay there I think.

Our other ADRs are Storybook Dining, Garden Grill, Skippers Canteen, Boma if anyone has feedback on how noisy those places are.

Hi!

Was thinking about your DD and your trip! How did she like Raglan Road? Hope it was everything she imagined plus some!

 

[2019TripIdeas]

Thank you! We ended up going to Disney Springs early in our trip for a quick take-out meal (we did Morimoto's side kiosk area) and when we walked by Raglan Road, it happened to be SUPER loud (assuming they were performing). My husband took her over by where you check in to peek at it and she said it was too loud, so that solved that and we cancelled the ADR. We ended up going to the Poly the night we were supposed to be at Raglan Road and got to check out the torch lighting ceremony, so still had a blast.

She did go to Biergarten and had zero issues there (we were seated on the third tier up and she could hold a conversation with us at the table). She had a blast and loved going down in front to dance during the musical performance.

 

[Tangled Pink]

Thank you! We ended up going to Disney Springs early in our trip for a quick take-out meal (we did Morimoto's side kiosk area) and when we walked by Raglan Road, it happened to be SUPER loud (assuming they were performing). My husband took her over by where you check in to peek at it and she said it was too loud, so that solved that and we cancelled the ADR. We ended up going to the Poly the night we were supposed to be at Raglan Road and got to check out the torch lighting ceremony, so still had a blast.

She did go to Biergarten and had zero issues there (we were seated on the third tier up and she could hold a conversation with us at the table). She had a blast and loved going down in front to dance during the musical performance.

I’m so happy to hear she was able to enjoy herself! You are such wonderful parents. She’s very lucky to have you both.