Deafness and abuse.

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When I was 7 or 8 years old I went to the school for the blind in Janesville, WI on a field trip, and it was a very interesting trip.

cool.

wsvh (wisconsin school for the visually handicapped) is exactly where i wanted to go. i had the opportunity to attend an adult blind rehab program there in 1996 and it was one of the best experiences i've ever had. even my mother was impressed and told me she wished she would have sent me to janesville after seeing how happy i was.

unfortunately, wsvh will be closing soon. there are alot of multi-disabled students there and their enrollment is down considerably. many of the teachers who used to work there for 20 or 30 years have retired as a result.

by the way, what did you do on your field trip? was the field trip designed to help you understand more about blindness?

janesville is an awesome town. the only thing i don't like about it is their public transportation system that only runs during limited hours monday through friday. other than that, janesville is a nice, small town to live in.

 

[LuciaDisturbed]

cool.

wsvh (wisconsin school for the visually handicapped) is exactly where i wanted to go. i had the opportunity to attend an adult blind rehab program there in 1996 and it was one of the best experiences i've ever had. even my mother was impressed and told me she wished she would have sent me to janesville after seeing how happy i was.

unfortunately, wsvh will be closing soon. there are alot of multi-disabled students there and their enrollment is down considerably. many of the teachers who used to work there for 20 or 30 years have retired as a result.

Yeah, when I was in high school at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf (1998), there was talk of consolidating WSD and WSVH together into one campus due to dwindling numbers of students at both schools and that they thought it would save money if both schools were at one campus instead of maintaining two campuses. Currently, the buses that transport Deaf students to and from WSD on Friday afternoons and Sunday nights also share the buses with the students from WSVH.

by the way, what did you do on your field trip? was the field trip designed to help you understand more about blindness?

I can't remember why we went there. I was only 7 or 8 years old. But I remember that we were given a tour of the school, and I thought the school was rather large compared to WSD. We got to see the school, the gym, and the dorms, and met some of the blind students there.

janesville is an awesome town. the only thing i don't like about it is their public transportation system that only runs during limited hours monday through friday. other than that, janesville is a nice, small town to live in.

I hardly ever went to Janesville when I was living in Delavan. I didn't even know Janesville had public transportation...I thought they had none!

 

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Yeah, when I was in high school at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf (1998), there was talk of consolidating WSD and WSVH together into one campus due to dwindling numbers of students at both schools and that they thought it would save money if both schools were at one campus instead of maintaining two campuses. Currently, the buses that transport Deaf students to and from WSD on Friday afternoons and Sunday nights also share the buses with the students from WSVH.
interesting. i didn't know that.

I can't remember why we went there. I was only 7 or 8 years old. But I remember that we were given a tour of the school, and I thought the school was rather large compared to WSD. We got to see the school, the gym, and the dorms, and met some of the blind students there.

yeah. the dorms and gym are pretty nice. when i was in the adult blind rehab program, i spent time in the dorms.

I hardly ever went to Janesville when I was living in Delavan. I didn't even know Janesville had public transportation...I thought they had none!

for the longest time, i also didn't know janesville had public transportation until i took o&m (orientation and mobility) at the blind rehab program.

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[damienmommy]

that's true, dreama.

this is a little off-topic, but in elementary school i used to be bullied and made fun of because of my blindness. other classmates used to deliberately trip me in the hallway and step on my cane as i walked by.

hey, hope I don't offense you by ask you a question, how can u know what we was saying in here alldeaf comments? since you said you are blindness.

 

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hey, hope I don't offense you by ask you a question, how can u know what we was saying in here alldeaf comments? since you said you are blindness.

i'm not offended at all. that's a very good question.

i use a screen reader (window-eyes) and a braille display (braille star 40) to read ad and the internet.

the screen reader takes information that appears on the computer screen and sends it to the braille display. it can also read that same information via synthetic speech.

by giving various keyboard commands to the screen reader and braille display, i'm able to move up, down, left, right, character by character, word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph and page by page.

i'm able to read forums/message boards, text documents, e-mail and the internet.

it's awesome.

i've been using computers since 1984 and we've certainly come a long way since then!

for more information:

What is a screen reader and how does it work?

What is a braille display and how does it work?

 

[pek1]

At one point I begged to be transferred to a new school for a new start but my parents refused. Their only suggestion was that I talk to a therapist.

Dixie, I'm not belittling this, but this makes as much sense as requesting your local mechanic to change the oil in your truck and he vacuums it out instead. :roll: Counseling? Good grief! Mean people and you're the one that needs counseling instead . . . counsel them with stick up their rearends, see if they need "counseling" for the pain, what do you think?

I think because I was in a vulnerable state of mind, my ex saw that in me and used it to take advantage of me . . . if he wasn't verbally cutting me down to size, he tried to use me as a punching bag . . .

What a bastard! It is never okay, under any and/or all circumstances, to hit a lady for any and all reasons. Lorena Bobbit did what she did for a reason and I approved. What he did to her was to show how much of a bastard he was (and still is!). You deserve better, Dixie. Never forget that.

 

[damienmommy]

i'm not offended at all. that's a very good question.

i use a screen reader (window-eyes) and a braille display (braille star 40) to read ad and the internet.

the screen reader takes information that appears on the computer screen and sends it to the braille display. it can also read that same information via synthetic speech.

by giving various keyboard commands to the screen reader and braille display, i'm able to move up, down, left, right, character by character, word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph and page by page.

i'm able to read forums/message boards, text documents, e-mail and the internet.

it's awesome.

i've been using computers since 1984 and we've certainly come a long way since then!

for more information:

What is a screen reader and how does it work?

What is a braille display and how does it work?

Wowww, it's amazing! I am glad they made that technology thing! I never meet anyone blind who's smart like you. I only met some of blind people at blind school, but they are kind of slow. But I didn't know they can use the computer while deaf. I know about blind who's hearing can hear from computer or something. But now I learn something new from you. I didn't know much about blind, like some of hearing people didn't know about our deaf too. They was like huh how can you type or writing if your deaf? I was like huh? We only can't hear that's all. We can do everything except for the hear.

 

[dreama]

i'm sorry that happened to you. did things improve at the next school you attended?

Yes. Definately. Their was a whole bunch of us instead of just me.

I was only disapointed about the oral only aproach since I quite neively thought that since it was for deaf people they would use sign language but it was oral only. Very frustrating.

 

[dreama]

At one point I begged to be transferred to a new school for a new start but my parents refused. Their only suggestion was that I talk to a therapist. While that would have been nice, it still wouldn't have gotten to the source of the problem. This was in 4th grade when I was being relentlessly targeted by bullies.

The bullying never stopped until I graduated high school. It got to the point that a bully actually kicked me out of my senior prom, so I never had a senior prom. It makes me start tearing up just thinking about it, so I wipe my eyes then push the pain back inside where it belongs. My junior prom was just as bad. I never had an actual date, but ironically a friend of mine, a very rare guy indeed, said here, let me take pictures with you. So we did, he paid for my photos. Wish I could say I had him as a mate now, but neither of us really felt the urge to date so it never went beyond friendship. While the photos were nice, Im still reminded that I spent the night off to the side and watched everyone else dance.

I think because I was in a vulnerable state of mind, my ex saw that in me and used it to take advantage of me. It was a very bad relationship, and I wish I could just go back in time and undo the moment I told him I would marry him for the sake of our child. I wanted my daughter to grow up in a two parent home and not become a fatherless child. Well, my fears become true when I had to put my foot down and say enough is enough and that the marriage just wasn't worth the abuse. If he wasn't verbally cutting me down to size, he tried to use me as a punching bag. While I always fought back against the knocks, it was hard for me to fight back against his words.

I'm sorry to hear about your ex. I've been there too. I was glad to get out in one peice.

 

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Yes. Definately. Their was a whole bunch of us instead of just me.

I was only disapointed about the oral only aproach since I quite neively thought that since it was for deaf people they would use sign language but it was oral only. Very frustrating.

i'm glad to hear that things improved for you. <smile>

i know what you mean about the oral only approach. i attended public school from kindergarten through 12th grade and wish i would have been taught sign when my hearing loss reached the moderately-severe range -- especially since i couldn't rely on lipreading. i'm sure things would have been so much easier if i had.

 

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Wowww, it's amazing! I am glad they made that technology thing! I never meet anyone blind who's smart like you. I only met some of blind people at blind school, but they are kind of slow. But I didn't know they can use the computer while deaf. I know about blind who's hearing can hear from computer or something. But now I learn something new from you. I didn't know much about blind, like some of hearing people didn't know about our deaf too. They was like huh how can you type or writing if your deaf? I was like huh? We only can't hear that's all. We can do everything except for the hear.

thanks for the compliment!

unfortunately, many blind children who attend schools for the blind also have other disabilities such as those that are cognitive in nature.

i honestly don't understand some of the strange questions people ask. your post is the first time i've ever heard of a hearie asking a deaf person how they can type if they can't hear. some people just don't think. :roll:

 

[dreama]

i'm glad to hear that things improved for you. <smile>

Thanks Hearagain. (Smile)

 

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Thanks Hearagain. (Smile)

you're welcome. <smile>