Comments on: Graduating, Interpreting & Realizing http://suddensilence.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/graduating-interpreting-realizing/ ...now New and Improved -- with Bionic Hearing! Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:33:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: DeafMom http://suddensilence.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/graduating-interpreting-realizing/#comment-200 DeafMom Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:25:41 +0000 http://suddensilence.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-200 Congrats on all the graduations! That's basically how I got started-- lipreading interpreters and then picking up the signs. :) Congrats on all the graduations! That’s basically how I got started– lipreading interpreters and then picking up the signs. :)

]]> By: Shari http://suddensilence.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/graduating-interpreting-realizing/#comment-199 Shari Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:55:15 +0000 http://suddensilence.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-199 My daughter just had her 8th grade graduation. Her school is K-8, though the public schools go from K-5, then 6-8 and 9-12. Was there a presentation movie made of all the student's growing up years? That was cool. I do that, too. If I see people clapping, it's my cue to clap. If I see people laughing, oh, okay, I'm supposed to laugh now. I think I will see if I can get an interpreter for the orientations when school starts in August. It'd be easier. I do know signs. Not very fluent in ASL, but do well in SEE. :) Glad your interpreter was easier to lip-read. My daughter just had her 8th grade graduation. Her school is K-8, though the public schools go from K-5, then 6-8 and 9-12.

Was there a presentation movie made of all the student’s growing up years? That was cool.

I do that, too. If I see people clapping, it’s my cue to clap. If I see people laughing, oh, okay, I’m supposed to laugh now.

I think I will see if I can get an interpreter for the orientations when school starts in August. It’d be easier. I do know signs. Not very fluent in ASL, but do well in SEE. :)

Glad your interpreter was easier to lip-read.

]]> By: kim http://suddensilence.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/graduating-interpreting-realizing/#comment-197 kim Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:43:12 +0000 http://suddensilence.wordpress.com/?p=37#comment-197 I had a similar experience about a month ago when I went to an interpreted play. I'm so NOT fluent in ASL, but I can understand alot when people sign and move their lips at the same time. So when I went to this play, I understood about 90%. Without the ASL, it would have been maybe 10%. The actors were just too far away for me to be able to see their tongues and lips that well and they often turned their heads away while talking, since the stage was curved and I was sitting to one side. I couldn't believe how much I understood with the interpreters!! I'm sorry you didn't get CART. Maybe when your daughter graduates from high school you will get that or know ASL enough to request an interpreter yourself. Smiles, Kim I had a similar experience about a month ago when I went to an interpreted play. I’m so NOT fluent in ASL, but I can understand alot when people sign and move their lips at the same time. So when I went to this play, I understood about 90%. Without the ASL, it would have been maybe 10%. The actors were just too far away for me to be able to see their tongues and lips that well and they often turned their heads away while talking, since the stage was curved and I was sitting to one side. I couldn’t believe how much I understood with the interpreters!!

I’m sorry you didn’t get CART. Maybe when your daughter graduates from high school you will get that or know ASL enough to request an interpreter yourself.

Smiles,
Kim

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