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Originally Posted by deafjellyfish
 i'm new to the boards...i was wondering how many of you are d/Deaf and work mostly in the hearing world? how do you manage? does your employer make any special accomodations for you? how well do you cope with your hearing co-workers?
just curious. thanks. |
In the summer I worked for a research lab. Most of my co-workers were visiting MD/PhD from Japan and didn't speak English really. I didn't understand
anything they say, and they didn't with me also. But they were no problem because my work was alone. I was given a list of assays (like experiments) I must do and this took weeks. Once a week the lab had a meeting but this was too high for me (more MD/PhD) so I read the article (or pretend
) and nothing more.
Most of the lab skills I learned in classes. Some I learned from a hearing tech. It was hard, but I also had instructions from lab companies to read. When I knew the skills, I worked alone. It was ok but lonely and boring.