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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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At the beginning of a test, I typically have my teacher and interpreter right there in front of me. My teacher will explain the rules and expectations of the test. The interpreter will then sit off to the side while…
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Extended time on testing, on my tests. For the extended time, since there were only six of us in class, a lot of the students were able to finish the tests within 35 minutes or between 35 to 45 minutes….
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The first test took place when the second year of school was ending and it was a knowledge assessment of what we had learned in those prior two years, which was a lot. It was a comprehensive test. I think…
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Based on my testing experience, sometimes I would get nervous and I would look forward to finishing the test….
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Written tests were a real challenge. While I had native fluency in my first language, ASL, my parents were simple Deaf folks who didn’t even graduate high school….
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After graduating high school, I attended college and that was when I had my first sign language interpreter, which had a strong impact on my experience. Wow, I learned so much at my community college….
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Another situation happened when a hospital in my area stopped providing interpreters. The Deaf community was up in arms about it. I thought the hospital may not understand why interpreters are necessary….
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