Hi,
i was reading your post and I wanted to say I'm so happy that you are writing something about this for your thesis. I'm a second year college student and I have gone through so many obstacle that still remains a problem for me. Like for the tutor program, I avoid going to the tutor because one, it's in a noisy classroom with other hearingstudents, and I need to have at least seventy-two hours to request an interpreter when the problem is my university already had one interpreter on their contract and was already on campus. They couldn't help me because they rush too fast wanting to avoid communicating with a deaf student or something. but the disability service want to hire interpreter that from one or two county away from where I am. in my opinion, the disability service is pretty lousy because they would hire an interpreter who is not fully qualified to interpreter at college level. I think they only look at how much cheaper they can hire someone from waaayyyy out of town who is like fresh out of school or something. I preferred to have an interpreter who is very fluent and fast enough to keep with the pace. I have to pick one of the option: to have an interpreter or tape recorder or notetaker. I'm not allowed to have two of either. I chose to have an interpreter but I'm barely able to understand their signing because of the slow pace and I'm even more frustrated. So the next semester, I'm changing to have a transcription instead and my listening device. The others are right, the disability service overlook the need of the deaf student and only look what they think it's best for us when they do not have the full knowledge or understanding of deaf in high education
That's all I got to say.
