[nfb-db] Deafblind Group Communication

[Maurice Mines]

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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