[nfb-db] rules in the ASLlab

[heather albright]

I am taking the course in a class room where my professor is deaf and does 
not speak!  So I have a note taker, a reader for the board, and two deaf 
interpreters who sign to me what the professor saying and showing me the 
signs!  I don't speak with them I just guess, sometimes a classmate will 
tell me what the teacher is saying, the one who reads the board!  That is in 
the classroom.  We have to have lab hours in the ASL lab making videos to 
show our signing and you have to watch the videos to get the infromation to 
be able to make your signing videos with quicktime! While in the lab, you 
cant speak to ask questions or bring a voice reader to read the videos, your 
not allowed to use spoken language in the lab!  I just feel like their 
making this really hard for me to participate in the ASL program here!  For 
example, I go to the lab today for tutoringand I have to sign in with my id 
and some how find the person to whom I will be working with to learn the 
signs, without ever speaking at all!  So if we are watching videos, they 
will be signing to me and I have to guess what their trying to convey to me! 
I understand not wating to use spoken language but everyone is learning 
through their eyes by seeing the signs and seeing the book telling them the 
sign!  I have nothing telling me anything, no braille book and no way to 
understand the tactile signs because I cant ask what their signing to me! 
Any ideas?  Heather ----- Original Message ----- 
From: Steve Jacobson
To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: [nfb-db] rules in the ASLlab


Explain more how you are taking this class?  How are you getting the 
information being conveyed in general?  It would seem as
though there must be something that could be worked out with the instructor 
to signal when you don't get something without
speaking?  This is an interesting dilema since it could affect any blind 
person taking a course like this.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:29:08 -0500, heather albright wrote:

>My problem is that they told me I cant speak if I have any questions or ask
>about a sign or how to make the sign!  They said I will be asked to leave
>and cant come back till the next day!  If I do it more than three times, I
>am band from the lab for 2 weeks!  But I cant read the book with all the
>signs or see the videos!  I am supposed to have 21 hours in the lab!  I
>understand that you should use ASL but if you don't know it, how can you 
>use
>it!  If you cant see the person signing, what should you do?  I have two
>tactile interpreters signing to me with me know any sign language at all. I
>only get 5 percent of what their saying! Is there a better method of
>teaching me?  Even people taking ESL use their language to teach someone
>English!
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: RJ Sandefur
>To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List
>Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:18 PM
>Subject: Re: [nfb-db] rules in the ASLlab


>Hay I don't see any problem
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: heather albright
>  To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List
>  Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 8:13 PM
>  Subject: [nfb-db] rules in the ASLlab


>  Hello, I was wondering about the rules in the ASL lab!  They said I cant
>talk in the lab at all, it is against the rules to speak!  So if I don't 
>get
>something, I cant ask to be sure!  Is that not against ADA because, I won't
>have equal access to the lab! If I speak they can make me leave, they said 
>I
>can go to another room but, it won't be the lab!   Afterall I am blind and
>if I cant ask about a sign, that seems a little unfair!  So how can a
>colledge say this to me and other blind students taking ASL?    Heather



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