okay ad'ers. ask me anything (but be nice! :))

have you ever seen the screen braille communicator/sbc? it's also a nice communication device for the deafblind. it has an 8 cell braille display, perkins keyboard, qwerty keyboard and an lcd for sighted-hearing. i'd love to own one (in the event my ci's stop working or my ci processors need repair), but i don't think that will ever happen unless i can get the lion's club or similar organization to pay for it.
 
Hear Again said:
have you ever seen the screen braille communicator/sbc? it's also a nice communication device for the deafblind. it has an 8 cell braille display, perkins keyboard, qwerty keyboard and an lcd for sighted-hearing. i'd love to own one (in the event my ci's stop working or my ci processors need repair), but i don't think that will ever happen unless i can get the lion's club or similar organization to pay for it.
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that sounds cool.
 
Hear Again said:
holy cow! i can't believe how expensive that is!

i already have a braillenote 32 bt. now all i need is the software.

by the way, i love the fact that the dbc has a face-to-face communication mode. that's something the krown braille tty doesn't have.
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yeah, i just saw the price myself... wow... thats a lot.

that is very interesting about the face to face.

i thought it was too cool when they showed it at convention. i couldn't wait to hold it.
 
typeingtornado19 said:
yeah, i just saw the price myself... wow... thats a lot.

that is very interesting about the face to face.

i thought it was too cool when they showed it at convention. i couldn't wait to hold it.
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yes, having a face to face communication mode is one of the most important features a deafblind communication device can have.

my telebraille III has a face to face mode, a perkins keyboard and (if i remember correctly) a 12 cell braille display. i've had my telebraille since 1996 and it's still going strong. too bad it's no longer being made. :(
 
Hear Again said:
yes, having a face to face communication mode is one of the most important features a deafblind communication device can have.

my telebraille III has a face to face mode, a perkins keyboard and (if i remember correctly) a 12 cell braille display. i've had my telebraille since 1996 and it's still going strong. too bad it's no longer made anymore. :(
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its cool that you have had it so long, i want to see a telebraille one day. why dont they make them anymore?
 
typeingtornado19 said:
its cool that you have had it so long, i want to see a telebraille one day. why dont they make them anymore?
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have you ever seen a picture of the telebraille? if not, you can do a google search for "telebraille III" and one of the first links that pop up will be a page which describes the telebraille.

i'm not sure why telesensory stopped manufacturing the telebraille, but i *do* know that many people in the deafblind community were very upset about it.

they do have the krown v-touch braille tty, but it isn't the same. it doesn't have a face-to-face communication mode and the braille display it uses (an alva) is a piece of crap. it's also not portable like the telebraille is since the braille display and print tty are completely separate from each other (whereas on the telebraille they were connected).
 
Hear Again said:
have you ever seen a picture of the telebraille? if not, you can do a google search for "telebraille III" and one of the first links that pop up will be a page which describes the telebraille.

i'm not sure why telesensory stopped manufacturing the telebraille, but i *do* know that many people in the deafblind community were very upset about it.

they do have the krown v-touch braille tty, but it isn't the same. it doesn't have a face-to-face communication mode and the braille display it uses (an alva) is a piece of crap.
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sweetness, i will look it up later. im sorry the other one is a piece of... more companies need to make things like that. but ohh well. the new one from NFB looks cool though. we will have to see.
 
oh, i'm sorry. i didn't mean to swear in my last post. i'm under the influence of 7 meds and cough syrup, so i'm not thinking clearly. just tonight i directed a post that was meant for mints to dixie. oops!
 
Hear Again said:
oh, i'm sorry. i didn't mean to swear in my last post. i'm under the influence of 7 meds and cough syrup, so i'm not thinking clearly. just tonight i directed a post that was meant for mints to dixie. oops!
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its all good i just used the... because i wanted to call it something else that would be a rude term.
 
Have you ever tried using an opticon?
How do you manage in your course with Bipolar? (I'm curious as when I suffer mental health and physical problems when I was at uni I ended up dropping out)
In your social work course do you get to meet other deafblind people? Have you met anyone deafblind from birth. I mean who was severely affected?
 
I have no questions yet, but would like to just say this..

You are truly a amazing person! whether you know it or not, I'm sure you see the world and people in a unique way the rest of us can never understand.
 
Hear Again said:
they pump them up full of antipsychotics and mood stabilizers. sometimes so much so that it causes the patient to be catatonic (this happened to me the last time i was hospitalized for mania. i was catatonic for 17 hours straight according to what the nurses told me).
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Do you remember anything while you were catatonic? Or you just blank out?
 
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the only language i know well in braille is spanish because i studied it in high school. i think i could also recognize german braille (edit: which i forgot to mention in your question about different languages in braille) as well (since i studied german in high school), but since i've never seen it before, i don't know for sure.
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I understand that Braille in US has 6 dots to a cell while other languages have 8 dots to a cell. If you are reading English in 8-dots per cell braille, is it the top 6 or the bottom 6 of the 8-dots cell? I wonder what Chinese braille looks like since they have about 2000 characters. Do you know?
 
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