DBI

  • Home
  • About
    • News
    • Staff
    • Core Team
    • ACT Team
    • DeafBlind Mentors
    • Collaborators
    • Partners
  • Training
    • → Login to DBI Moodle
    • Online Learning
    • Training Connections
    • DBI Institutes (DBII) >
      • Meet the 2018 cohort
      • DBII 2019
  • Resources
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About
    • News
    • Staff
    • Core Team
    • ACT Team
    • DeafBlind Mentors
    • Collaborators
    • Partners
  • Training
    • → Login to DBI Moodle
    • Online Learning
    • Training Connections
    • DBI Institutes (DBII) >
      • Meet the 2018 cohort
      • DBII 2019
  • Resources
  • Events
  • Contact

STAY CURRENT

#WhyISignPTASL with debra kahn

6/14/2017

 
Video description:
Debra (a female with short brown hair, purple glasses, dangling earrings, a black shirt) sits in front of a green background and signs into the camera.  

Video transcript:
Hello everyone!  My name is Debra Kahn.  I am DeafBlind.  I live in Seattle, Washington.  I’ve worked as the SSP Coordinator for the DeafBlind Service Center for the past two and a half years.  I’ve personally received benefit  from using PTASL when teaching, giving presentations, or training new SSPs.  When I am presenting at a workshop, a PSSP stands beside me and provides access to the visual information that is going on around me in PTASL.  For example, if there are hands raised in the audience, or other visual or environmental information that I might have otherwise missed, the PSSP provides that information to me in PTASL, tactually on my body.  When I am in the middle of a conversation and another person approaches and touches my shoulder to indicate that they are there, I have the opportunity to check in to see who is joining the conversation and wants my attention.  Maybe that person’s emotions come out through the use of facial expressions, laughter, a wide smile, or some other visual means.  I am able to capture that information visually, but if I was fully blind, how would I be able to tell what the other person’s affect was or catch the other visual cues to know how the person was feeling.  PTASL is the answer.  It is the ultimate means to ensure full access to information. It really is slick.  #WhyISignPTASL

(Video transcript and description also available for download as an accessible Word document)

#WhyISignPTASL ​​

Comments are closed.

    Archives

    January 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017

    Categories

    All
    From The Center
    From The Community
    General News
    #WhyISignPTASL

    RSS Feed

DBI envisions a world that celebrates the life and culture of DeafBlind persons, a world where DeafBlind people have influence and control over their destiny and dreams.
DeafBlind Interpreting National Training and Resource Center
Regional Resource Center on Deafness (RRCD)
​Richard Woodcock Education Center
Western Oregon University
345 N Monmouth Ave
Monmouth, OR 97361
dbi@wou.edu
Federal Disclaimer: The contents of this website were developed under a grant from the Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal government.
Header image credit: "Deaf-Blind Camp of Maryland Visits NASA Goddard" by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, used under CC BY / Color altered from original
RSA Grant H160D160005. 
DBI is a grant funded by the US Department of Education RSA CFDA #84.160D, and is a project under the Regional Resource Center on Deafness at Western Oregon University.