Ryan, I'm a reporter doing a story about vlogging and would love to speak to you about your interviews and your role at the Gallaudet protests. Can you plz email me so I can send you some questions? Pl delete this post once you read it. thanks! Anand
Wed, 2007-04-11 13:05 — Ryan aka Stingy (not verified)
Christine and I am on same boat as I have usher along failed operation on my left eye too. I'm pleased that RC has this special interview with Christine to get to the point.
It would be nice to have text version of this interview because I has difficulty catch everything what it is said. Thanksssss!
I am very impressed with Christine and her truth about deaf community. Hearing people have problem understanding about deafness and yet deaf people have problem understanding about deaf-blindness.. We need to be more sensitive about each other. I thank Christine for sharing common sense with us and also thank Ryan for making Vlog about this matter.. I remember I was SRA at Clerc Hall during summer of 1982 and there was large deaf-blind conference on Gally Campus. I saw two elderly deaf-blind people sitting in the lobby room and they were far from each other. I was busy working at the office and I decided to check the lobby again about one hour later. I found same two deaf-blind people sitting there in same room and they were so quiet by themselves.. I was only 22 that time and I knew very little about deaf-blind. I decided to use tactile method with one of them and asked that person if she would like to talk with other deaf-blind person in same room. She said yes she would like to. I brought her to other person and they were so happy to find each other. They knew each other for over 25 years. They talked for hours and hours in that lobby room. That hit me very hard and I never forget that moment. We need better tech system for deaf-blind that will help them to know who is in room..
I was an interpreter for deaf-blind students for the SSS special student services (hope I got the acronym right) office as it was called back then at Gally from 1981 to 1982 while I was a undergrad student. I will never forget this experience. It was close-by-student reverse interpreting...not tactile, thank goodness. It was challenging keeping up with the Art History (fast signer with lot of vocabulary--Prof. Parsons) and Anthropology (sloppy signer-hearing professor was rather obese...can't recall name). I always wore a long sleeved dark brown buttoned-up shirt. I always had huge sweat-spots on the shirt under my armpits after each class. :) If I recall right, the SSS office gave me no training at all.
Does Gallaudet still rely on their deaf students to reverse-interpret for their deaf-blind students?
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Ryan, I'm a reporter doing a
Ryan, I'm a reporter doing a story about vlogging and would love to speak to you about your interviews and your role at the Gallaudet protests. Can you plz email me so I can send you some questions? Pl delete this post once you read it. thanks! Anand
Thank you Christine & RC!
Christine and I am on same boat as I have usher along failed operation on my left eye too. I'm pleased that RC has this special interview with Christine to get to the point.
It would be nice to have text version of this interview because I has difficulty catch everything what it is said. Thanksssss!
My input on this Vlog
I am very impressed with Christine and her truth about deaf community. Hearing people have problem understanding about deafness and yet deaf people have problem understanding about deaf-blindness.. We need to be more sensitive about each other. I thank Christine for sharing common sense with us and also thank Ryan for making Vlog about this matter.. I remember I was SRA at Clerc Hall during summer of 1982 and there was large deaf-blind conference on Gally Campus. I saw two elderly deaf-blind people sitting in the lobby room and they were far from each other. I was busy working at the office and I decided to check the lobby again about one hour later. I found same two deaf-blind people sitting there in same room and they were so quiet by themselves.. I was only 22 that time and I knew very little about deaf-blind. I decided to use tactile method with one of them and asked that person if she would like to talk with other deaf-blind person in same room. She said yes she would like to. I brought her to other person and they were so happy to find each other. They knew each other for over 25 years. They talked for hours and hours in that lobby room. That hit me very hard and I never forget that moment. We need better tech system for deaf-blind that will help them to know who is in room..
Very enjoyable chat...thanks
Very enjoyable chat...thanks Ryan and Christine.
I was an interpreter for deaf-blind students for the SSS special student services (hope I got the acronym right) office as it was called back then at Gally from 1981 to 1982 while I was a undergrad student. I will never forget this experience. It was close-by-student reverse interpreting...not tactile, thank goodness. It was challenging keeping up with the Art History (fast signer with lot of vocabulary--Prof. Parsons) and Anthropology (sloppy signer-hearing professor was rather obese...can't recall name). I always wore a long sleeved dark brown buttoned-up shirt. I always had huge sweat-spots on the shirt under my armpits after each class. :) If I recall right, the SSS office gave me no training at all.
Does Gallaudet still rely on their deaf students to reverse-interpret for their deaf-blind students?