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<DIV><FONT size=5>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 <FONT size=3>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
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=steve.jacobson@visi.com href="mailto:steve.jacobson@visi.com">Steve
Jacobson</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=nfb-db@nfbnet.org href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">NFB
Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:53 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [nfb-db] rules in the ASLlab</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Explain more how you are taking this class? How are you
getting the information being conveyed in general? It would seem as
<BR>though there must be something that could be worked out with the instructor
to signal when you don't get something without <BR>speaking? This is an
interesting dilema since it could affect any blind person taking a course like
this.<BR><BR>Best regards,<BR><BR>Steve Jacobson<BR><BR>On Tue, 17 Sep 2013
19:29:08 -0500, heather albright wrote:<BR><BR>>My problem is that they told
me I cant speak if I have any questions or ask <BR>>about a sign or how to
make the sign! They said I will be asked to leave <BR>>and cant come
back till the next day! If I do it more than three times, I <BR>>am
band from the lab for 2 weeks! But I cant read the book with all the
<BR>>signs or see the videos! I am supposed to have 21 hours in the
lab! I <BR>>understand that you should use ASL but if you don't know
it, how can you use <BR>>it! If you cant see the person signing, what
should you do? I have two <BR>>tactile interpreters signing to me with
me know any sign language at all. I <BR>>only get 5 percent of what their
saying! Is there a better method of <BR>>teaching me? Even people
taking ESL use their language to teach someone <BR>>English!<BR>>-----
Original Message ----- <BR>>From: RJ Sandefur<BR>>To: NFB Deaf-Blind
Division Mailing List<BR>>Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:18
PM<BR>>Subject: Re: [nfb-db] rules in the ASLlab<BR><BR><BR>>Hay I don't
see any problem<BR>> ----- Original Message ----- <BR>> From:
heather albright<BR>> To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing
List<BR>> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 8:13 PM<BR>>
Subject: [nfb-db] rules in the ASLlab<BR><BR><BR>> Hello, I was
wondering about the rules in the ASL lab! They said I cant <BR>>talk in
the lab at all, it is against the rules to speak! So if I don't get
<BR>>something, I cant ask to be sure! Is that not against ADA because,
I won't <BR>>have equal access to the lab! If I speak they can make me leave,
they said I <BR>>can go to another room but, it won't be the lab!
Afterall I am blind and <BR>>if I cant ask about a sign, that seems a little
unfair! So how can a <BR>>colledge say this to me and other blind
students taking ASL?
Heather<BR><BR><BR><BR>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR><BR>>
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