[nfb-db] Communication

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Hello,
I'd like to add my 2 cents here. I had forgotten the technology aspect -  
I'm showing my age here. I'm glad Marsha brought it up. Using this  
technology requires a braille or tactile sign result.
 
I have Usher 2 and am adventitiously blind and wear 2 cochlear implants. I  
function as a hard-of-hearing blind person, but I have communicated and  
socialized with a number of deaf sighted and deafblind individuals, although 
my  signing skills were very limited and I usually used an interpreter. 
 
Concerning communicating with those with no vision nor hearing, you really  
must have a hearing tactile interpreter to communicate with them. Tactile 
sign  language is pretty much what it sounds like - the deaf/blind person 
holds his  hands loosely on top of the interpreter's signing underneath his  
hands. Those two individuals should have told you that they needed  tactile 
interpreters, and ideally you would have found and provided those  services.
 
Are you aware of voice/over interpreting? I've used them on several  
different occasions, where interpreting was available. The interpreter repeats  
into my ear or microphone what the speaker (e.g., at a podium) is saying,  
generally a word or two behind the speaker while listening to his next words.  
This is not a common skill because it involves listening to one thing while  
speaking or signing something else. This requires a lot of skill.
 
Hope this helps,
 
Janet Sand
 
 
In a message dated 8/4/2015 10:54:55 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nfb-db at nfbnet.org writes:

 
 
Dear D/B  Mailing List,
 
 
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?
 
 
The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the  
characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the  
expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles  between 
blind people and our dreams. You can have the life you want; blindness  is not 
what holds you back. 
 
Marcus Simmons, President,
Wayne County chapter NFBMI
Member NFB Deaf/blind chapter
28179 Brentwood
Southfield, MI 48076-3069
president at map-n.org
(248) 552-8928

 




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