[nfb-db] Deafblind Group Communication
Maurice Mines
minesm at me.com
Mon Jun 15 23:48:47 UTC 2009
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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