[sasi] Deaf Clubs

[Monika Werner]

>  X
> it in hearing culture-but, it would be ok in deaf culture.
> Lori
> knowledge.-----Original Message-----
> From: sasi-bounces at acb.org [mailto:sasi-bounces at acb.org] On Behalf Of
> jeffrey
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 12:18 PM
> To: sasi, (sight and sound impaired) discussion list
> Subject: Re: [sasi] Deaf Clubs
> 
> cindy,
> i am in the same boat as you, and i have no braille,
> only my hearing with the cochlear implant.
> 
> just a short note for scott,
> you mentioned there is no difference between deaf comunity and deaf culture
> so i guess this means since there is a blind community and deaf/blind 
> community
> there are also blind culture and deaf/blind culture?
> 
> jeff and incredible docker
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cindy Flerman" <cflerman at verizon.net>
> To: <sasi at acb.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 12:08 PM
> Subject: [sasi] Deaf Clubs
> 
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'd like to add my thoughts to this discussion.
>> 
>> As a totally blind person who is now losing hearing, I see my problem in 
>> joining a deaf club, as Scott describes, in that I don't know ASL or 
>> similar languages, and because of this would probably have difficulty 
>> communicating with most people there.  For non-oral deaf people, I would 
>> not most likely be able to understand their speech, either.I found this in
> 
>> going to a parochial non-residential primary school that taught blind and 
>> deaf children separately, and also found this difficulty when I attended a
> 
>> week for non-ASL (or oral) seniors at Helen Keller National Center. To 
>> just go to a meeting of a deaf club without being able to communicate 
>> would seem to be almost futile.  The only communication I would personally
> 
>> have would be with either oral hard of hearing people who lip read, with a
> 
>> deaf-blind person with a notetaker or other braille input/output 
>> communications device or a computer with speech?, etc.
>> 
>> I also found that when I worked at Braille Institute, I could only 
>> communicate with deaf or hard of hearing and visually impaired people who 
>> were at least somewhat oral or who had a communications device I could 
>> use. The profoundly deaf/visually impaired who used ASL required me to 
>> communicate if at all, through an interpreter.
>> 
>> So, my thinking is that for me to just attend a deaf club, etc., in and of
> 
>> itself, would not solve the dilemma of incorporating into the deaf 
>> community or deaf culture.
>> 
>> With dual disabilities of vision and hearing, it seems to me that there 
>> are still two groups: one that tends toward visual languages and one that 
>> tends to oral languages.
>> 
>> Just the thoughts of someone who is relatively new to most of this,
>> 
>> Cindy Flerman
>> and Yellow Lab guide Pedro, who always makes his needs known one way or 
>> the other!
>> 
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