i'm back :)

[Adam P Valerius DSC]

Val,

To tell you the truth I haven't used tactile signing in 3 years. I miss it. 
I'm having a very hard time reading ASL & PSE visually but every signer 
who's here for me to get with in Cincinnati, OH, USA does NOT want me 
reading their signs tactually. That *SUCKS*! I have been rejected by the 
Deaf-Blind for 3 1/2 years straight & I don't know where to go to get back 
with them. My teacher for Deaf-Blind Interpreting Class @ Cincinnati State 
College told me to move to Seattle, WA, USA to get back with the Deaf-Blind. 
Maybe I should look into moving to Seattle. But Seattle's cost-to-live is 
very expensive. I miss the Deaf-Blind a lot! They are my good friends! When 
I'm with the Deaf-Blind I like to communicate in ASL/PSE tactually both ways 
(the DB person reads me tactually and I read him/her tactually). I read in a 
book by an ASL interpreter who often works with the Deaf-Blind that it makes 
the Deaf-Blind feel more "at home" when they meet a sighted person who can 
read ASL/PSE tactually. Of course I can :). I have some undiagnosed visual 
processing deficit that is getting in my way of reading ASL/PSE visually.

I enjoyed our conversations in 2005 too :). It sure is nice knowing you & 
watching SW develop.

As for the accessible computing, I wish I could afford that technology. I 
own a brand-new laptop but I gotta read the emails in print since the 
refreshable Braille costs $1,000s. I miss working with Braille. It was fun 
in 2003 working with Braille on my spare time. I've loved Braille since I 
was introduced to it @ the age of 6 (BTW now I'm 23 & on 11/19 I'll be 24 & 
there's so much more). Once I have a job, maybe I can save up for that 
technology. It's just very expensive and no one will buy it for me cuz I'm 
sighted. I'm only going to work part-time so that I still have a lot of free 
time & do NOT jeopardize my government benefits.

Later,

Adam P. Valerius, DSC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Valerie Sutton" <signwriting at mac.com>
To: "SignWriting List" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [sw-l] i'm back :)


> On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Adam P Valerius DSC wrote:
>> I am NOT worried about what I said 2 years ago. It just gave me a  few 
>> painful flashbacks when I read the results on Google last  September 
>> (2006). Of course it keeps track of every word of every  post. I know 
>> that. It is great to have a history of SW development.  I wish you the 
>> best of luck in inventing written forms of all the  signed languages in 
>> the world.
>> Later,
>> Adam P. Valerius, DSC
>
>
> Thank you, Adam!
>
> And I can imagine you have had a hard time in the past, and I am glad  to 
> know that your health is doing better now (at least I hope it  is)...I 
> enjoyed our conversations back in 2005...
>
> Are you still using tactile signing? Recently we have had the good 
> fortune of working with a member of the Deaf-Blind Community from  Quebec, 
> Canada. Andre is a researcher who is writing Quebec signs in  the Quebec 
> SignPuddle...
>
> Quebec SignPuddle
> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index1.html#sgn-CA-fr
>
>
> ....and from a software development point of view, we found out that  the 
> Mac has more features for Blind users than Windows XP does...
>
> In fact, I understand that when the next Mac OS X operating system, 
> called Leopard, is released in October, I understand the operating  system 
> will be accessible in Braille for the blind...very cool!!
>
> So there are lots of new technologies now that may be of use to you...
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
>
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