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<DIV><FONT size=5>No my braille note is about 8 years old and it does not even
connect to my pc that has win7! I wanted a </FONT><FONT size=3>HIMS
notetaker but I don't have the funding to buy one! And there located in
Austin just down the road from my house! I was going to apply for a loan
from BNA to get one because, my braillenote is so old! I do have an
eyephone 4s! I think that would help me text better, sometimes I
cant here the text when there is to much noise, even when the volume is the
highest! I heard about the i can connect program, I don't think I qualify
for the program! It sounds like a good program for those who really need
it! I hope the government keeps it up longer than the trial! Heather
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=janice.toothman@verizon.net
href="mailto:janice.toothman@verizon.net">Janice Toothman</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 11:02 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [nfb-db] rules in the ASLlab</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi Heather.<BR>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.<BR>Janice<BR>
<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 9/18/2013 11:31 AM, heather albright
wrote:<BR></DIV>
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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"
moz-do-not-send="true">Steve Jacobson</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=nfb-db@nfbnet.org href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">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?
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