wavedancer
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Help!
After losing my TTY and a few years of having DH make phone calls for me I finally broke down and got a PurpleSmartVP.
Hallelujah, Free at last ! :roll:
Erm, or not L
All of a sudden I can't understand any ASL ?
I learned ASL and a good amount of SEE while I was still HoH as a teenager and had a few tutors after going completely Deaf. DH is in his first year in an ASL interpreter program at the local college. I can't say I'm the world's Best ASL signer but we are Both years ahead of ASL 1. I prefer ASL as my main method of communication and have Interpreters for any important appointments. In the past there have only been 1 or 2 Interpreters I've had any problem understanding.
For some reason I can't understand the interpreters on the VP at all !
Today my husband went out an I sent him out with a Script, and told him to call me and go through the script, it was a very simple script about where he was, what he wanted me to get and what time he'd be home.
He signed it to me before he left and it made perfect sense. Then he called and I am not kidding, I got ONE word, and that only because I had the poor lady fingerspell it three times !
Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here? Or any suggestions of how to get used to this VP ?
Part of me just wants to cry right now and get another TTY, but I really want to make this work so I can make phone calls to other Deafies eventually !
After losing my TTY and a few years of having DH make phone calls for me I finally broke down and got a PurpleSmartVP.
Hallelujah, Free at last ! :roll:
Erm, or not L
All of a sudden I can't understand any ASL ?
I learned ASL and a good amount of SEE while I was still HoH as a teenager and had a few tutors after going completely Deaf. DH is in his first year in an ASL interpreter program at the local college. I can't say I'm the world's Best ASL signer but we are Both years ahead of ASL 1. I prefer ASL as my main method of communication and have Interpreters for any important appointments. In the past there have only been 1 or 2 Interpreters I've had any problem understanding.
For some reason I can't understand the interpreters on the VP at all !
Today my husband went out an I sent him out with a Script, and told him to call me and go through the script, it was a very simple script about where he was, what he wanted me to get and what time he'd be home.
He signed it to me before he left and it made perfect sense. Then he called and I am not kidding, I got ONE word, and that only because I had the poor lady fingerspell it three times !
Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here? Or any suggestions of how to get used to this VP ?
Part of me just wants to cry right now and get another TTY, but I really want to make this work so I can make phone calls to other Deafies eventually !