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Originally Posted by DEAFdotDORK
Just wondering if any other Deaf attend public colleges...
I will be attending Concord University starting next week...
If you are Deaf and attended public college... what was your experience like?
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I'm not deaf, but my boyfriend (soon to be fiance) goes to Winthrop University with me; we're both majoring in Finance. We've had a few classes together, so I see that mainly he just requests an interpretor and he takes notes from that. What we try to do is get seats in the front row to make sure that he has the interpretor right in front of him. This semester though, he's in his upper level courses while I'm finishing up me gen eds, so we don't have much together.
He's the only deaf person at our school (we only have around 5,000/6,000 with grad students). Fortunately, we have a good disability services office, and he gets a variety of interpretors from Charlotte. Apparently, there is quite a population of deaf people in Charlotte, which neither of us were much aware of, since his interpretors told us of how busy they can get.