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do you use hearing aides because if you do you would qualify
especially if your hearing loss may not be a stable condition. <br>
even if you don't think you might qualify please check and find out
because you might be pleasantly surprised. I use hearing aides in
both eears and I don't know asl butI still qualified.<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/18/2013 11:49 AM, heather albright
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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 </font></div>
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href="mailto:janice.toothman@verizon.net">Janice Toothman</a>
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 18, 2013 11:02 AM</div>
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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
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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 </font></font>-----
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href="mailto:steve.jacobson@visi.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">Steve Jacobson</a> </div>
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:53 AM</div>
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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>
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Best regards,<br>
<br>
Steve Jacobson<br>
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On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:29:08 -0500, heather albright wrote:<br>
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>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>
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>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>
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> 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>
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