At law school, it was more challenging because I was living in a different city. So I wasn’t sure if we were going to email, call, or talk through Relay. I wanted to discuss my intake through the phone or…
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I remember at one meeting, for example, sitting with a group of teachers. The student was in the room, off to the side, while teachers were discussing accommodation needs for that blind student….
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I wish professionals understood that accommodations are very, very necessary. I think that many professionals when dealing with deaf people kind of pushed those accommodations to the side or push requests to the side and think that they’re not as…
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So, my worst experience ever was watching music videos in my Intimate Relationships class. Some videos were about love or heartbreak or whatever, that’s not the point. One day, I had a substitute interpreter….
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Hello, my name is Tamie Neathery. I currently work for CLIA, the Center for Independent Living, a group home for deaf clients. I recently graduated with my bachelor of social work at a public university….
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I remember having to contact the Disability office to make sure interpreters were provided in class and requested interpreters for tutoring as well, but was denied. I simply accepted their decision because I assumed I had no other option….
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HOW DO ROLE MODELS IMPACT THE LIVES OF DEAF INDIVIDUALS?…
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What strategies do I wish universities would consider? Make the campus itself accessible to begin with. For example, fire alarms should have flashing lights for our safety….
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I took one year off from school, then came back to college. I took a few classes where the students were all deaf. They were aware I was DeafBlind. I told them what I needed and suggested we use an…
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When I took a lecture-style course, the professor would project PowerPoint slides with all the photographs of architecture and buildings. It was challenging, because I was fascinated by those images, but I could not look at both the image and…
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For those of you who don’t know, the FM system is a microphone where you can hang it around a professor’s neck with their permission, and when the professor starts speaking, the voice will be amplified in my implant….
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When a film was shown without closed captions, I would ask the instructor if the video was captioned or not. When they indicated they did not know, I would ask them to please find out, because without it, I can’t…
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