Can you do... variability etc Definitely. I described a number of common requirements which I knew students in each impairment group/type struggled at university. So for VI I had mobility in unfamiliar places and reading. For deaf I had hearing alarms, following speakers and making notes. Our mobility section specifically said if you couldn't easily walk 2 miles in a day every day to read it cos many studes never walked that far but suddenly discover they CAN'T sustainably do it after a few weeks...
One of the few credits I'll give to whoever designed PIP is the idea of safely repeatably reliably and in a timely manner are not bad ways of thinking about activities.
You see - I see I see those alarm clocks flickering but I can't remember if I could before 2015 :(.
I now wonder how your vestibulo-ocular reflex works with nystagmus. I'm guessing it probably works a bit but then craps out when you're tired which will be one of the many reasons seeing is tiring.
Confusing deaf and blind Deaf people get given braille menus sometimes... And yes, what we call the "special wheelchair voice" in our house, but applies to anyone who is being patronising to disabled people...
I think I used a mixture of resources for planning you PIP, RNIB was definitely one of them. I definitely took the idea of "what does seeing involve" and broke things into questions which I'm familiar with doing for work.
I've just drafted a loooong 'questions and considerations' for deaf people document... Uploaded to the better deaf PIP group and already got good feedback so will be on revision 3 before long :D
BSL If there is ANYthing I can do to support you with BSL please do not hesitate to ask. If you can get a syllabus in advance for the BSL course and show me, I may be able to think of good resources which you can access for extra repetition or additional ways of seeing/doing stuff.
Deaf people are CREATIVE and FLEXIBLE in our communications. Deafblind people are increasingly prominent in the community and demanding their equality. So there's already conventions like "smaller sign space" or signing slower to be more understood.
I have some CDs of stuff as well as much being online and pretty much every BSL book available in the UK at present. Maybe that's a way to LURE you to Birmingham for a visit (I'd happily meet you off a train on the platform at Mordor Central aka New Street)...
JAWS demo There are demos online on Youtube etc, but most of them are DIRE... If they are not too long and full of "loving sound of own voice" narrator syndrome then they have terrible visuals which don't show the point(s) usefully and often distract from the purpose cos they're SO bad...
Patrick used to make the most appalling videos and had Boring Old White Man syndrome on top of a refusal to listen for signs of boredom or requests to STFU-nao... It was my official job to shut him up before he got lynched in work events...
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Definitely. I described a number of common requirements which I knew students in each impairment group/type struggled at university. So for VI I had mobility in unfamiliar places and reading. For deaf I had hearing alarms, following speakers and making notes. Our mobility section specifically said if you couldn't easily walk 2 miles in a day every day to read it cos many studes never walked that far but suddenly discover they CAN'T sustainably do it after a few weeks...
One of the few credits I'll give to whoever designed PIP is the idea of safely repeatably reliably and in a timely manner are not bad ways of thinking about activities.
You see - I see
I see those alarm clocks flickering but I can't remember if I could before 2015 :(.
I now wonder how your vestibulo-ocular reflex works with nystagmus. I'm guessing it probably works a bit but then craps out when you're tired which will be one of the many reasons seeing is tiring.
Confusing deaf and blind
Deaf people get given braille menus sometimes... And yes, what we call the "special wheelchair voice" in our house, but applies to anyone who is being patronising to disabled people...
I think I used a mixture of resources for planning you PIP, RNIB was definitely one of them. I definitely took the idea of "what does seeing involve" and broke things into questions which I'm familiar with doing for work.
I've just drafted a loooong 'questions and considerations' for deaf people document... Uploaded to the better deaf PIP group and already got good feedback so will be on revision 3 before long :D
BSL
If there is ANYthing I can do to support you with BSL please do not hesitate to ask. If you can get a syllabus in advance for the BSL course and show me, I may be able to think of good resources which you can access for extra repetition or additional ways of seeing/doing stuff.
Deaf people are CREATIVE and FLEXIBLE in our communications. Deafblind people are increasingly prominent in the community and demanding their equality. So there's already conventions like "smaller sign space" or signing slower to be more understood.
I have some CDs of stuff as well as much being online and pretty much every BSL book available in the UK at present. Maybe that's a way to LURE you to Birmingham for a visit (I'd happily meet you off a train on the platform at Mordor Central aka New Street)...
JAWS demo
There are demos online on Youtube etc, but most of them are DIRE... If they are not too long and full of "loving sound of own voice" narrator syndrome then they have terrible visuals which don't show the point(s) usefully and often distract from the purpose cos they're SO bad...
Patrick used to make the most appalling videos and had Boring Old White Man syndrome on top of a refusal to listen for signs of boredom or requests to STFU-nao... It was my official job to shut him up before he got lynched in work events...