Deaf and hh in college now

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wjfren01

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Who all here is Deaf or hard of hearing at a 4 year college besides RIT and Gally? This is the group of people I want to connect with. I am the only hard of hearing person at my college and I wish it was otherwise.
 
I interpret for my college. We have 4 Deaf students there. Next year we believe we'll have 6. They all have our little social circle with a few other interps. I'd love to get them all connected on here too. Even though there are 4 of them, I know they still feel incredibly isolated sometimes.
 
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Curious..why dont you want to connect with deaf people who attend RIT or Gallaudet?
 
shel, I think he wants to connect with mainstreamed dhh students.
I was a mainstream college kid myself.... Wish I'd done NTID or Gally since the support systems sucked!
 
They do. I contacted my college about these little plaques they had up in the lecture halls saying there were assistive listening devices in Disability Services. I was excited at the prospect of using their FM system/loop in my large lecture classes- Nah, not for me. Turns out they -had- receivers a few years ago, but they were kinda crappy so they just got rid of them and left the signs up. -_-
 
plasticdinosaur said:
I'm a 4 year hoh college student at IU. Go Big Red!
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You are my sworn enemy. Must. Destroy. IU! :)


I was at IU back in October for a job interview. I went with my friend and it was last minute. I don't use an interpreter, but my friend does, and they weren't able to find one for her with two day's notice. I ended up terping for her. It was awkward and not professional, but it worked.

I talked to the director of disability services and she told me there is only one deaf person on the entire campus that uses ASL. Really? a school of over 40,000 and only one ASL user? Do you know if that's true?
 
TheWriteAlex said:
You are my sworn enemy. Must. Destroy. IU! :)


I was at IU back in October for a job interview. I went with my friend and it was last minute. I don't use an interpreter, but my friend does, and they weren't able to find one for her with two day's notice. I ended up terping for her. It was awkward and not professional, but it worked.

I talked to the director of disability services and she told me there is only one deaf person on the entire campus that uses ASL. Really? a school of over 40,000 and only one ASL user? Do you know if that's true?
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Yeah, lol. It's totally true. They don't really know how to handle me here, the lady who handles my case says she only has a handful of students with some type of hearing loss, and only one student who uses ASL. It's because in that area, IU is useless. (Still better than Purdue though! ;) Heh heh. ) I myself went to an Oral school, and was mainstreamed later. I also seem to be the only student that IU serves that went to a Deaf school of any kind other than the one ASL user.
 
deafdyke said:
shel, I think he wants to connect with mainstreamed dhh students.
I was a mainstream college kid myself.... Wish I'd done NTID or Gally since the support systems sucked!
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Well, then count me out because I went to Gallaudet University.
 
I am a hard of hearing student at a 4 year school in MD. There are a couple other HoH people here but not many
 
shel90 said:
Curious..why dont you want to connect with deaf people who attend RIT or Gallaudet?
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Shel, I have tons of friends who go to both of those schools. I have nothing against those schools, I actually was looking at RIT for a bit but didn't want to go that far away from home.
 
TheWriteAlex said:
Purdue has 30+ hoh/deaf students, but only 6-7 of which use interpreters. Still, we have an on-site interpreter who can cover in emergency situations. We would have been prepared for a situation like what happened to me.

PURDUE WINS AGAIN!

:lol:
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Yea I know the dude who runs track at Purdue, baller. I haven't used an interpreter since 3rd grade so accommodations weren't a concern for me. Kentucky School for the Deaf is right down the street should my implant ever self destruct ha. Boiler Up!
 
wjfren01 said:
Shel, I have tons of friends who go to both of those schools. I have nothing against those schools, I actually was looking at RIT for a bit but didn't want to go that far away from home.
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Oh I got it. I went to Arizona State University for my BA degree and then to Gallaudet for my Master's.

So, where do I fit in? :lol:
 
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