[nfb-db] Communication

[Marsha Drenth]

Well you could have gone at this in several ways. Having an interpretor would have been helpful but costs money. Another way would be to have someone who can type quickly, use a laptop and type what is happening in the meeting. This could be used for the deaf person then to sign to the deafblind person. If it was a computer/laptop with jaws or VO on it, then those who want to communicate with the deafblind person and the deaf could then hear what they are typing. I am assuming that the deaf individual was maybe the deafblind persons SSp. The technology used here would not necessarily need to be a laptop with jaws, but could be a Idevice or Mac. Use the technology your most comfortable with. If the deafblind person can read braille, a braille display could be connected as well. 
These were the ideas that came to my mind off the bat. anyone else have better ones?


Marsha drenth  
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> On Aug 4, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Marcus Simmons via nfb-db <nfb-db at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Dear D/B Mailing List,
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> We had a meeting on Saturday and two guest arrived. One was totally deaf/blind and the other was only deaf. Since none of us are totally deaf blind, we did not know how to communicate to our guest. Any comments?
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