tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post8924184771107465588..comments2024-03-19T07:36:33.915-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: NEXTDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-66249894222017137292008-05-15T11:59:00.000-04:002008-05-15T11:59:00.000-04:00Hi Anonymous - absolutely the control should remai...Hi Anonymous - absolutely the control should remain with the cashier and the customer - that should never be in question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-53477840389044059942008-05-14T21:50:00.000-04:002008-05-14T21:50:00.000-04:00This woman sounds like a rare case for the support...This woman sounds like a rare case for the support of cloning. She can teach people a thing or two about disability, and clearly works very efficiently. Great all round. We need more of her!Heike Fabighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06856001856348587649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-19764230021085724702008-05-14T17:52:00.000-04:002008-05-14T17:52:00.000-04:00What a great employer she must have too--I think m...What a great employer she must have too--I think most people's prejudices would interfere with hiring her for a checker job. I like that she tells people her disability because she needs to--sometimes I need to as well and feel guilty about it. This tells me I shouldn't feel guilty, that sometimes it just makes things easier.FridaWriteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03321658097813377806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-42167019245115470092008-05-14T15:53:00.000-04:002008-05-14T15:53:00.000-04:00Cool.Cool.Shanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704810407872873565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-31095540757421887672008-05-14T15:29:00.000-04:002008-05-14T15:29:00.000-04:00Colleen: True. But it would have to be handled wi...Colleen: True. But it would have to be handled with sensitivity (i.e., the person helping would need to ensure the deaf person understands WHY help is being offered). Deaf people already have the repeated experience of other people jumping in to take over our interactions with hearing waiters without checking for permission or giving us room to claim ownership of the interaction or find our own solutions first. <BR/><BR/>With me, for example, I would not want a hearing person to just take over--I would want them to simply alert me that the woman is blind and needs me to tell them the order verbally. Then I would give the order verbally myself, because I do have the speech skills to do that (it's just that I might not initially be able to lipread the woman's request). This approach would put me (and the blind woman) in control -- i.e., I want the help on my own terms, not the terms of the hearing sighted person. In other cases, the hearing sighted person might still need to help verbalize the order, but this should be on request.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-48091339153809982962008-05-14T12:55:00.000-04:002008-05-14T12:55:00.000-04:00Couldn't a hearing and sighted person help the De...Couldn't a hearing and sighted person help the Deaf person tell her what their order was? - I love the notion that if we all worked together we would make it work!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for this delightful story DaveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-4551283895545917832008-05-14T09:31:00.000-04:002008-05-14T09:31:00.000-04:00Great to hear this story -- though as a deaf perso...Great to hear this story -- though as a deaf person, I would be nervous because my lipreading skills, although fairly decent, are far from perfect: if I had been there, I might not have understood her request right away. Also, I can think of people I know who don't speak very clearly who normally gesture or write things down as their primary mode of communication with non-signing hearing people. Wonder how she would deal with that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-68151401287215395932008-05-14T09:27:00.000-04:002008-05-14T09:27:00.000-04:00That is completely and totally brilliant.That is completely and totally brilliant.Liz Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09469435277058701080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-49881592400057323512008-05-14T09:23:00.000-04:002008-05-14T09:23:00.000-04:00I love it!!! What a great way to start my day by r...I love it!!! <BR/>What a great way to start my day by reading this~ thanks Dave!Keihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04095184831191402113noreply@blogger.com