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kokonut · 03-19-2012, 09:37 AM

One time at George Washington University in an engineering class of about perhaps 15 students we had another deaf student who brought his interpreter with him. I always sit in the front. The professor spoke well and so I listened without any problems but from time to time I looked at the interpreter...and found myself distracted...realized this I had to totally ignore the interpreter so I can re-focus on the professor. I was much better off with the professor speaking. The interpreter wasn't mine and I had no need for one but the other deaf student did.

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kokonut Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 15,348	One time at George Washington University in an engineering class of about perhaps 15 students we had another deaf student who brought his interpreter with him. I always sit in the front. The professor spoke well and so I listened without any problems but from time to time I looked at the interpreter...and found myself distracted...realized this I had to totally ignore the interpreter so I can re-focus on the professor. I was much better off with the professor speaking. The interpreter wasn't mine and I had no need for one but the other deaf student did. __________________ Before AD. After AD. "Restriction on free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." -Thurgood Marshall, former Supreme Court Justice "... turns out they are telling the truth."