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Harleydragon said:
if your bored why don't you find a HOBBY to do or get out of house go shopping or go to deaf cafe and meet deaf people to practices your sign language ah
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Because i cant drive, and it is too freggin cold to go walking 3/4ths of a mile to the bus stop.
 
Harleydragon said:
if your bored why don't you find a HOBBY to do or get out of house go shopping or go to deaf cafe and meet deaf people to practices your sign language ah
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that's not easy to do when you can't drive. sorry, typeingtornado. i had to say something.
 
what kind of adaptive equipment (if any) do you have around your home? (i.e. braille labels, etc.)?
 
Hear Again said:
what kind of adaptive equipment (if any) do you have around your home? (i.e. braille labels, etc.)?
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I have 2 cctv's, one big one, and a portable, a monocular... somewhere...*i have moved like 2 times in the past year...*, a large kitchen timer, a demo version of zoomtext, slate and stylus... does a cane count?
 
typeingtornado19 said:
I have 2 cctv's, one big one, and a portable, a monocular... somewhere...*i have moved like 2 times in the past year...*, a large kitchen timer, a demo version of zoomtext, slate and stylus... does a cane count?
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yes, i'd count a cane. is the kitchen timer you have very large and square in shape with a thick rectangular dial in the middle? the reason i ask is because i used one of those while in blind rehab and although it was a large print timer (it was black in color and had white numerals), we adapted it with braille markings at each number.

what does a portable cctv look like? i've never seen one before. i remember the HUGE ones they used to have back in the 70s and 80s that looked like tv's and had a sliding tray underneath them with large rotary dials. i remember how some of the low vision students would stick their fingers underneath the camera lens so they could make shadow ghosts. LOL!

speaking of cctv's, one thing that i think is *so* cool is how images can now be seen in color and reversed in contrast. when cctv's first came out, they were in black and white.
 
Hear Again said:
yes, i'd count a cane. is the kitchen timer you have very large and square in shape with a thick rectangular dial in the middle? the reason i ask is because i used one of those while in blind rehab and although it was a large print timer (it was black in color and had white numerals), we adapted it with braille markings at each number.

what does a portable cctv look like? i've never seen one before.
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My timer is a circle, but other than that its the same. A portable cctv... how to describe... It is basically two pieces hinged together, the top one has a screen, and magnification buttons on it, the bottom has a camera to *read* the text, pic w/e. I like the bigger one better though. The portable is mostly plastic...
 
typeingtornado19 said:
My timer is a circle, but other than that its the same. A portable cctv... how to describe... It is basically two pieces hinged together, the top one has a screen, and magnification buttons on it, the bottom has a camera to *read* the text, pic w/e. I like the bigger one better though. The portable is mostly plastic...
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your description makes perfect sense to me. the only thing i don't understand is what w/e stands for?
 
typeingtornado19 said:
LOL, sorry. w/e- what ever.
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oh, okay. i don't think i've ever seen that abbreviation before. LOL! that reminds me of the first few times i made a relay call with my telebraille. i was just learning and wasn't familiar with the tty abbreviations used and unfortuntely, some of the ca's didn't follow my request when i asked them to spell out words completely before i could become familiar with them.
 
Hear Again said:
oh, okay. i don't think i've ever seen that abbreviation before. LOL! that reminds me of the first few times i made a relay call with my telebraille. i was just learning and wasn't familiar with the tty abbreviations used and unfortuntely, some of the ca's didn't follow my request when i asked them to spell out words completely before i could become familiar with them.
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That stinks, it reminds me of when i was riding the school bus in high school *they made me ride the sped bus* i always used to hear 10-4, it took me months to figure out what it meant...
 
typeingtornado19 said:
That stinks, it reminds me of when i was riding the school bus in high school *they made me ride the sped bus* i always used to hear 10-4, it took me months to figure out what it meant...
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that must have been really strange for you to keep hearing 10-4 all the time not understanding what it meant. i bet that drove you crazy! that's one of the things sighted people don't understand about the difficulties growing up as a blind or visually impaired child when your parents don't explain those kinds of things to you.
 
Hear Again said:
that must have been really strange for you to keep hearing 10-4 all the time not understanding what it meant. i bet that drove you crazy!
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No different from the tty, that would have drove me nuts, and ticked me off. But yes, i spent many a bus ride wondering... I felt too stupid to ask... so i just kept listening, and putting it in context.
 
typeingtornado19 said:
No different from the tty, that would have drove me nuts, and ticked me off. But yes, i spent many a bus ride wondering... I felt too stupid to ask... so i just kept listening, and putting it in context.
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it's funny. in the "deaf and gifted thread" i mentioned taking the wisc (weschler's intelligence scale for children) and talked about how unfair the test was for the blind/vi (as well as the d/hoh) since it often asked visual questions about things i've never had experience with. one question in particular asked me to analyze an odometer despite the fact that i had never seen an odometer before (and i *still* don't know what an odometer looks like -- although i know what one is).
 
Hear Again said:
that must have been really strange for you to keep hearing 10-4 all the time not understanding what it meant. i bet that drove you crazy! that's one of the things sighted people don't understand about the difficulties growing up as a blind or visually impaired child when your parents don't explain those kinds of things to you.
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Yup, no offense the the sighted people on here but there is a lot they just don't understand (how important braille is, why not to call a white fold up cane numchucks *because i will use them like numchucks if i have to...*, Why we have to do some things differently) but there are things the hearing community dosent understand about d/Deaf *which ticks me off as well...*
 
typeingtornado19 said:
Yup, no offense the the sighted people on here but there is a lot they just don't understand (how important braille is, why not to call a white fold up cane numchucks *because i will use them like numchucks if i have to...*, Why we have to do some things differently) but there are things the hearing community dosent understand about d/Deaf *which ticks me off as well...*
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true. that's why i think it's so awesome to have ad'ers like you, dreama, aleser, mrs. bucket and nika (to name a few -- my apologies to others i haven't named) to help educate others about the blind and deafblind.
 
Hear Again said:
it's funny. in the "deaf and gifted thread" i mentioned taking the wisc (weschler's intelligence scale for children) and talked about how unfair the test was for the blind/vi (as well as the d/hoh) since it often asked visual questions about things i've never had experience with. one question in particular asked me to analyze an odometer despite the fact that i had never seen an odometer before (and i *still* don't know what an odometer looks like -- although i know what one is).
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Yeah, i hate stuff like that... I always thought the standardized tests for schools here were unfair because i could never see the ruler for the math one, and it took so much longer. Plus there were the pictures *witch is the same as this... i dont know...* Crap, i didnt see a bird until i got my first monocular in 9th grade. And i cant see one without a monocular... how am i supposed to identify... Just like this one time i lived in a school district where there were no sped busses so i rode a regular one home, i got sexually harassed one day and i was asked to identify them by a picture in the yearbook... Yeah... that worked well... NOT.
 
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