[nfb-db] My trip to Seattle for the Washington deaf blind citizens meeting.

Thu Apr 17 15:48:59 UTC 2014

Hello, Randy!!

How does one find an agency that provides interpreters in their state?  I
know in Florida we have several agencies and we have FRID.  So, does one
contact and RID agency in their state to find an agency in their area?  

As I said we use several agencies in Florida but there may be someon this
list serve who doesn't know who to contact in their area.

(smile)
Darlene

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-db [mailto:nfb-db-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Randy Pope
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 10:58 AM
To: 'NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nfb-db] My trip to Seattle for the Washington deaf blind
citizens meeting.

Hi Maurice and all,

I'm Randy Pope, President of American Association of the Deaf-Blind (AADB).
It's an honor to  meet you and everyone on this list.

Welcome to the other side of the DB community where American Sign Language
is their native language. I would like to congratulate and thank you for
taking up American Sign Language (ASL) as the first of many steps into the
DeafBlind community, especially who are culturally deaf.  For people who are
not familiar with the Deaf culture and their ways of life, this will be
somewhat a difficult but not impossible path into our world.  With many
people of different nationality, learning the ASL itself is not enough to
fully understand the Deaf and DB who are culturally deaf.  With some
commitment and patience,  there are a good number of hearing (both sighted
and blind) people who have succeeded in overcome these challenges.

About finding qualified interpreters in the medical field is a big
challenge.  I personally have great interpreters as well as bad one.  But my
experience mostly was quite positive.  In finding one, you doctor or any
medical facility will need to call the interpreter's agency to set up the
service you required.  One thing that you can do is to get a list of
recommendations from the DB person.  

Just recently I have to report against one interpreter with the interpreter
agency of poor professional conduct.  The situation was that this person has
stepped out of her role as an professional interpreter into the role of a
social worker, a role that many DB do not appreciate.  It has gotten to the
point that she was questioning of one DB elder and very intelligence man's
mental state after taking a very strong medicine that require to be taken
with food.  It was a mistake that anyone could have made

With regards,
Randy Pope
randy.pope at aadb.org

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-db [mailto:nfb-db-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of maurice mines
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 12:08 AM
To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List
Subject: [nfb-db] My trip to Seattle for the Washington deaf blind citizens
meeting.

Hello, I just wanted to drop everyone a line letting you know how a trip to
Seattle Washington went on, this was to attend the Washington state deaf
blind citizens general meeting.

I just would like to share some thoughts and asked a couple of questions of
the group to gain some understanding of a couple of issues. One I found
everyone to be very cordial. I found the volunteer interpreters to be
extremely helpful at times. Now onto the first of my two questions, is it
normal to have major problems toward applying people to find qualified
medical interpreting? My next question takes on a potentially much larger
issue, if one goes to the   website, www.deafblindpower.com ,  what do you
think of the site? Also is there really a large problem with Helen Keller?
Because if I'm reading the site right, the deaf blind coalition is
advocating for a deaf  blind executive director? Any thoughts on this one?
Also a lot of the updates on the site there's some discussion about the US
Department of Education as it relates to Helen Keller international, I know
that there are always two sides to every story, is there another side to
this story?

Aside from the things I've already mentioned, I noticed that the meeting
were quite in-depth on Washington state citizens internal operations. I
really do think this is a good thing. In closing, it is a very good thing
that I'm learning sign language, because before the afternoon session ended
the battery on my Bluetooth system that allowed me to hear the voice
interpreter using the PA system, the battery ran out. This of course left me
with hearing that some pieces of the voice interpreter and reading what the
interpreter was signing to me tactfully, of course since I am just learning
I missed quite a few signs, but put together with what I could hear of what
was going on I seem to keep it all straight in my mind. This also begins
what I think is the in-depth education on current depth blindness issues at
the Washington state level. I have already possibly, gotten approval to get
preliminary approval to attend their October meeting.

I hope all is well with everyone on the list, and I will be reading your
responses? Now here comes my signature file.

Sincerely Maurice mines.
Student accessibility aid.
Voicemail phone, 360-524-0791.
School/work email address, Maurice.mines at PCC.edu.
Amateur radio call sign, kd0iko.
Note I'm using Dragon dictate version 3 for the Mac to dictate the contents
of this document, or email.
Please excuse any errors as they may be the result of the software, or the
dictation process.

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