Video Relay Service

The story Deaf Like Me begins with a young married couple, Louise and Thomas Spradley, waking up in the middle of the night and panicking about the child they are expecting. Louise is five months pregnant with the couple 's second child. They already have a three and a half year old one named Bruce who became ill last summer. When taking him to the doctors, Louise finds out that Bruce has German measles, or rubella. The doctor notifies Louise that if she is pregnant there can be possible…

The community in which deaf individuals are raised in effect how they not only communicate but also their self-image and willingness to become active members of their community. How a community interacts and accepts the deaf individual has a huge impact on their outlook on life. In Cece Bell's’ novel El Deafo, the protagonist Cece’s outlook on life changes throughout the novel as different people interact with her and learn about her deafness, while in the documentary Life Without Words the…

individuals are supposed to be knowledgeable of the culture which includes: the hours of the death club, the names of important Deaf leaders, which includes the presidents of various Deaf associations in the particular state, how to use the telephone relay service, major figures in the American Deaf history, and how to manage in various trying situations with people. I thought the Deaf Club was a place where Deaf people came to socialize with each other in an informal manner. I can certainly…

The Apple Falls Far From the Tree - Hearing Parents with a Deaf Child The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree – according to the Urban Dictionary (Peckham, 2009) this idiom refers to a father/mother and son/daughter not being different from one another. But what happens when children are different than their parents? “Bill is a lawyer. He works for a corporation and is very successful. His wife is a graduate of an Eastern woman’s college. They travel, enjoy entertaining and reside in a…

The summer of my senior year I made the courageous decision to begin the first steps in my future career and give my time to a local hospital. Like any other day, I walked in to this sterile smelling hospital and sat at the front desk patiently waiting to greet new visitors. All throughout the hospital there were little kids yelling, elderly people holding hands, and families talking about their loved ones. It was around 7:00 pm when my partner and I were just about done delivering gifts to…

are isolated and separated by their deafness if those around them do not learn to sign or if they don’t learn to speak. Those who are deaf are often separated developmentally and academically, depending on when and what kind of early intervention services they receive, how extensive their hearing loss is, and whether it is accompanied by another disease or disability. This in turn, can cause them to isolate themselves and produce devastating effects on self-concept. There are often a lot of…

Advice for Interpreters: Timing Many people have said “in humor, timing is everything.” Salvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering (2011) test this theory to see if timing affects how people tell jokes and how those jokes are received by others. They examined if presenters paused or spoke faster when saying the punchline. Their findings for the pauses that occurred in a joke were longer at the beginning of the joke than the slight pause that happened before the punchline. Attardo and Pickering…

providers available for business and organizations to use. Additionally, once an organization has the dual handset telephone infrastructure, they could presumably seat their own, staffed interpreters at an internal call center to take OPI calls. Video Remote Interpretation (VRI) takes place when two parties at the same location experience a communication barrier, and place a videophone call to an interpreter at a remote location. This way, the interpreter does not need to be physically present…

that year in track. I had placed in all the meets in all of my events and today was going to be no exception. Today, I was suppose to run the 3200 meter relay, the open 800 meter run, the 400 meter dash and finally the 1600 meter relay. Going into the day both relay teams were placed…

a “Knockout Cancer!” event with the Wellness Center on campus. This event was a free kickboxing class where students can get a good workout in while hanging out with friends and donating to a great cause. CAC’s main event is the Moorhead Colleges Relay for Life that we…