[access-uk] Re: COMMUNICATION SOLUTION

  • From: "roger south" <roger.south@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:48:53 +0100

Hi Ian

Sounds like the best solution would be Deaf/Blind Manual. A language for 
deafblind people where each letter has a tactile symbol on the fingers. With 
practice almost normal speech speed can be reached. If your colleague has BSL 
he should know most of it as I am sure it's an off-shoot of BSL. Very easy to 
learn but needs practice to build up speed. I'm quite good but when I go to 
deafblind meetings I realise I'm no any where as good as I like to think I am.

Most of the options you mention are possible but again it takes time so departs 
from the spontaneity of communication. Deafblind UK in Peterborough used to do 
Hasicom but I don't know if it's still ongoing and it was a laptop on Braille 
display. Very expensive around £8,000 The manual is probably your best option.

Roger

Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once. 


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ian Macrae 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:33 AM
  Subject: [access-uk] COMMUNICATION SOLUTION


  I'm working very closely in my new job with a colleague who's profoundly 
deaf.  I don't have any BSL and I'm also not a very good lip speaker.  At 
present we're communicating reasonably effectively using email and text but 
sometimes we need to have something that's more instantaneous.  I was wondering 
two things.  1.  Is there a one-line text display which could be hooked up to a 
Braille note?  Or two, even more effectively, could the text terminal used for 
minicom calls be hooked up to the BN so that I could put stuff in and it would 
come out in text for him and he could use the qwerty keyboard to put stuff in 
which I could then read in Braille on the display?

  Ian Macrae
  Editor
  Disability Now
  +44 20 7619 7115
  +447795 968743




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