Prefered communication method?

What are your communication methods in order of preferance?

  • ASL/*SL, Written english. (no speech or lip reading)

    Votes: 7 10.3%

  • written English, ASL/*SL. (no speech or lip reading)

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • ASL/*SL, written English, cued speech

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • ASL/*SL, written English, speech and lipreading

    Votes: 22 32.4%

  • written english, ASL/*SL, speech

    Votes: 3 4.4%

  • speech, ASL/*SL, written english

    Votes: 5 7.4%

  • Written english, Alphabet based system, other

    Votes: 2 2.9%

  • Written English, Speech, some signs.

    Votes: 4 5.9%

  • Written English, SEE or alternative signing system, speech

    Votes: 2 2.9%

  • Written english, Speech (no sign language)

    Votes: 2 2.9%

  • SEE or alternative signed system, written english, Speech.

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • ASL/*SL, Alternative sign system, written English, Speech

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • Speech, written english, (no sign language)

    Votes: 8 11.8%

  • Other combination not listed. (please state)

    Votes: 9 13.2%
  • Total voters
    68
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Ok ok, I am only Single Sided Deaf, so I prefer speech and lip reading. I speak French, Italian, English and Greek, but I don't know sign language.
 
Giulia said:
:wave:
Ok ok, I am only Single Sided Deaf, so I prefer speech and lip reading. I speak French, Italian, English and Greek, but I don't know sign language.
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Well, you do know a sign, wave! :lol:
 
Obviously, it's about Lotte...
When we found out she is deaf, we used sign, but that's not used any more.
Now, it's
"Spoken Dutch", "Spoken Norwegian", no sign.

English is now taught at school, and also the writing (in all three languages starts"
 
ASL, PSE, Speech
I am much more comfortable with my speech than my signing because I am hearing and grew up in the hearing community, but I am comfortable enough with ASL to carry on a conversation so I would rather sign than speak because it is a much for fun and expressive language. Even when I am only with my hearing friends we will sometimes use sign language only and not speak at all. There have been numerous occasions where people thought me and my hearing buddies were Deaf, which is always interesting.
 
The options were limited in my scope of communication.

ASL
Tactile
Speech
Lipreading (on a rare basis as I notice I am not able to follow lipreading now)
Tadoma method
 
Mrs Bucket said:
The options were limited in my scope of communication.

ASL
Tactile
Speech
Lipreading (on a rare basis as I notice I am not able to follow lipreading now)
Tadoma method
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mrs. bucket,

how did you learn tadoma?

when i trained at my local deafblind center, tadoma was the only communication method that was not taught to me.

do you use tadoma often?
 
A majority voted for ASL as their preferred communication method. Not surprised here.
 
Hear Again said:
mrs. bucket,

how did you learn tadoma?

when i trained at my local deafblind center, tadoma was the only communication method that was not taught to me.

do you use tadoma often?
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Hear Again,

I am really blessed to have a great support system within the CNIB that believes in using all kinds of communication methods. I am also blessed that my local CNIB office is a strict believer in ASL screening of their intervenors. This really helps the DB community a lot because there are some intervenors outside of CNIB that just cannot be passed for intervenors and they do have the title of "Intervenor".
 
Mrs Bucket said:
Hear Again,

I am really blessed to have a great support system within the CNIB that believes in using all kinds of communication methods. I am also blessed that my local CNIB office is a strict believer in ASL screening of their intervenors. This really helps the DB community a lot because there are some intervenors outside of CNIB that just cannot be passed for intervenors and they do have the title of "Intervenor".
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you're fortunate to have an organization like cnib. while i have a local deafblind center in my area, we only have one ssp/intervenor. there used to be a wonderful resource program for the deafblind in madison, wi until the director left many years ago. unfortunately, no such program exists any longer, so the only place a dbp can receive services is through our local deafblind center, hknc or nfb training centers.
 
Mrs Bucket: Do you know if Tadoma could be used for someone who was blind and very hard of hearing so they could use the two systems together? I'm interested in that as one of the characters in the novel I'm writing uses the system.

Also would it be accurate to discribe tadoma as similar to lipreading for deafblind people?

Do you know any other deafblind people who use it?

I've heard it's not known to be successful but at one stage when oralism was at it's peak they were using it as 'the only system'. Of course it would bound to fail as a stand alone system for profoundly deafblind kids but as part of a package along with tactile signing and finger spelling. I can see it's use.
 
i wonder why tadoma isn't used much today? my local deafblind center never taught tadoma nor did they mention it as a communication technique for dbp's.
 
Hear Again said:
i wonder why tadoma isn't used much today? my local deafblind center never taught tadoma nor did they mention it as a communication technique for dbp's.
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I think this is because at one point in history it was used exclusively as a stand alone method. That was at the height of the oral only system. Their are very few systems that can be used exclusively in that way.
 
dreama said:
I think this is because at one point in history it was used exclusively as a stand alone method. That was at the height of the oral only system. Their are very few systems that can be used exclusively in that way.
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i don't understand why tadoma can't be used as part of a full toolbox approach with tactile sign and other alternative communication techniques for the deafblind. i'm thinking about asking hknc if they know where i can learn tadoma because i'm really interested in learning it.
 
Hear Again said:
i don't understand why tadoma can't be used as part of a full toolbox approach with tactile sign and other alternative communication techniques for the deafblind. i'm thinking about asking hknc if they know where i can learn tadoma because i'm really interested in learning it.
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I agree. I wish you luck in getting someone to teach you more about this system. Please let me know how you get on if and when you get someone to teach you how to use this system.
 
dreama said:
I agree. I wish you luck in getting someone to teach you more about this system. Please let me know how you get on if and when you get someone to teach you how to use this system.
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will do. i'm pretty sure that hknc will be able to tell me where i can find someone who can teach me tadoma. if that person is out of state however, i have no idea how i'm going to go about learning it. hmmm.
 
i have recently become completely deaf in both ears, so guess im different for rt now, but...

if im talking to a hearing person. i still talk, and im learning to lip read better, so i talk if i can read they're lips, otherwise, i use written.

if im talking to a deaf person. i use what ASL i know.

but so far, i always like online typing lol. emotions are fun :wave:
 
personally, I prefer to speak... sign... cue... write.

Speech is SO efficient if you know how to speak. Cueing is easier and faster than writing, of course.
 
My order is: ASL/*SL, speech (no lipreading), written English

I was surprised that the poll didn't have that one.
 
Written English, Speech, some signs and speech reading. Really, when it comes right down to it, a person would never know I'm deaf when they hear me speak.
 
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