[nfb-db] Deafblind Group Communication

[Mussie]

John,
And my school requires deaf-blind/blind students to read film transcripts 
instead of trying to obtain all the info via captioning, then you answer 
coursework using transcripts. And I used to be an avid reader of speech 
transcripts of politicians...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Lee Clark" <johnlee at clarktouch.com>
To: "'NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List'" <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-db] Deafblind Group Communication


> Maurice:
>
> Many TV and radio shows post transcripts online.  Though I am more into
> books, I know many DB who love to read movie scripts, TV show transcripts,
> etc. online.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-db-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-db-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Maurice Mines
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 6:49 PM
> To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] Deafblind Group Communication
>
> hi is blind setch a vary bad word in the nfb it is a sorse of pride it
> is not a bad thing to be blind. also I am ceres how due get emegrence
> worings whin there are brodcasted over tv, and raido?
> On Jun 15, 2009, at 5:38 PM, John Lee Clark wrote:
>
>> Mussie:
>>
>> But the degree of sight or hearing shouldn't be a point at all.  If
>> it was
>> the point in anything, that thing would be very sick.
>>
>> When I organize DB events here, I always look at the communication
>> mode of
>> choice.  What degree of vision or hearing doesn't matter because it
>> would
>> still tell me absolutely nothing about what the person would need or
>> want.
>> In our local community, among the merely legally blind, there are
>> close
>> range listeners, far range listeners, trackers, and tactilers.  In
>> the lower
>> vision group, again, there are close and far range listeners,
>> trackers, and
>> tactilers.  In the very blind group, there are, again, close and far
>> range
>> listeners, trackers, and tactilers.  Likewise, there are FM users, C-
>> print
>> users, and signers in all groups of hearing levels.
>>
>> Maybe in your community there is a stronger tendency to use all the
>> vison or
>> hearing that's left, and so your legally blind people would mostly
>> be either
>> far or close range visual listeners, your lower vision people would
>> mostly
>> be trackers or close range, and your very blind people would mostly be
>> trackers if they can squeeze by or reclutantly be tactilers.  I
>> don't know.
>> But here and in all the states I have visited so far, degree or
>> vision or
>> hearing means nothing, really, about anything practical.
>>
>> As for "impairment," I better say nothing, lest I'll end up writing
>> a book!
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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