Sim-comm

evil_queen_lisa said:
Yup, like Jenny said, the question for me is how to access classes. I'm no where near fluent in ASL, don't know PSE, and my first language is English. I can speechread pretty well, but it's impossible in a lecture and exhausting getting what I can. I have given up on the idea of Sim-Comm for this year, but next year I am going to push for either Sim-Comm or CART, and not let them give me any less!!!
Thanks,
*EQL*
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Have you ever had success using an oral transliterator?

Another option could be sign-supported speech.
 
evil_queen_lisa said:
what would be the difference between those and sim-comm?
*EQL*
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Sign Supported Speech is more like what I was doing, but my understanding is that it is SEE with mouthing. It is tedious and I can't sustain it for more than a few minutes without intense thought :giggle:

Oral transliterator basically mouths all of the words, without signing. I have used them before and it is painful! Your eyes will want to commit suicide after a few minutes. Especially if you are using your FM too because listening to the prof and then watching the mouthing that happens with a few second delay you will be hard.
 
JennyB said:
Oral transliterator basically mouths all of the words, without signing. I have used them before and it is painful! Your eyes will want to commit suicide after a few minutes. Especially if you are using your FM too because listening to the prof and then watching the mouthing that happens with a few second delay you will be hard.
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Is the idea behind this that even as the professor moves around you maintain a good view in order to be able to lipread what's being said?
 
CJB said:
Is the idea behind this that even as the professor moves around you maintain a good view in order to be able to lipread what's being said?
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It's also helpful in case the professor has a beard, mumbles, speaks with an accent, etc.
 
JennyB said:
Oral transliterator basically mouths all of the words, without signing. I have used them before and it is painful! Your eyes will want to commit suicide after a few minutes. Especially if you are using your FM too because listening to the prof and then watching the mouthing that happens with a few second delay you will be hard.
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Ya, thats pretty much what my friend came and did for me to help the first day that my FM broke. Eye Suicide, but better than nothing.
*EQL*
 
JennyB said:
Sign Supported Speech is more like what I was doing, but my understanding is that it is SEE with mouthing. It is tedious and I can't sustain it for more than a few minutes without intense thought :giggle:
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so should i be asking for sign supported speech or Sim-Comm?
*EQL*
 
evil_queen_lisa said:
so should i be asking for sign supported speech or Sim-Comm?
*EQL*
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Really, what I would do, is ask to be there with your accessibility services person and interview interpreters. Sitdown, have a conversation with them and see what works.
 
JennyB said:
Really, what I would do, is ask to be there with your accessibility services person and interview interpreters. Sitdown, have a conversation with them and see what works.
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hmmm... i never even thought of that. Good idea! I will be here for the summer too, so i will be around to do that!

*EQL*
 
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