[nfb-db] rules in the ASLlab

Wed Sep 18 16:02:00 UTC 2013

Hi Heather.
Is your Braille notetaker set up to act as a deaf-blind communicator?  
It is or you have a DBC then you can ask your questions on the 
DBC/notetaker and the sighted ASL partner could read it and provide the 
tactile ASL answer.  I know my HIMS Braille Sense U2 has an LED screen 
in which the sight person can read the question/comment and then type 
their response either your Qwerty or Braille keypad but also you can 
pair it with a Iphone using a Bluetooth connection.  The I Can Connect 
program can provide you with this technology.
Janice
On 9/18/2013 11:31 AM, heather albright wrote:
> 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 <mailto:steve.jacobson at visi.com>
> *To:* NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List <mailto:nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
> *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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