Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals:
 |
| Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
Speaker: Dr Stacey Brown gives an introduction *
Hello everyone, and welcome to our presentation entitled
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
"Effective Communication with Patients and Patient Hearing Problems". Conn. Health
DEVELOPMENT:
 |
| Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
Office of Community Based Education and Center for Excellence in Developmental
Disability is a collaborative effort to contribute to these educational discussions. Our presenters will do just that
share strategies for working with deaf and hard of hearing patients in both
the perspective of a deaf patient and an ASL interpreter. Our guest
The speakers are Luisa So Oles Ki, currently president of
CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION:
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
The Connecticut Association of the Deaf and a retired principal from
American School for the Deaf. We also have Leslie Warren who is a nationalist
Certified Sign Language Interpreter and CEO of CoSign Connecticut.
ASSOCIATES PROFESSOR:
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
He is also a Associate Professor at Wesleyan University.
Today's agenda will include communication, working with interpreters, video remote
interpretation, and at the end of the presentation we will have more
general resources and a way for Conn Conn medical students to ask for more
questions. So without further ado, please welcome Luisa So Oles Ki and Leslie Warren.
Hello everyone my name is Leslie Warren and I am here today to represent you
INTERPRETATION:
interpretation and translation component of health issues from medical
settings. I am here today as someone who has a lot of experience with
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
interpretation and medical conditions. I was a complete sign language
CONSULTANT:
 |
| Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
consultant at UConn Health Center for 12 years and we are developing programs for
translators to learn how to better serve the deaf community so I'm happy to do it
be here and we'll just share a little bit, we'll just touch a little bit of some prop
points are important to you. I'll be back in a few minutes to talk about translation
but now I would like to introduce my friend and colleague, Luisa Soboleski, who will add
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
talk to you first, I want to warn you a lot
I express what I will be doing for Luisa and I may need to drink water for you
you will see me stand up and ask for a drink of water,
that's what translators have to do sometimes. Anyway, my friend Luisa.
(Luisa) Hello everyone
ZOOM MEETING:
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
Great to have a Zoom meeting for all of you. I want to thank you
everyone for being interested and this is a great technology for us
these days so that we can do this kind of training. I am a third generation deaf person
a person. My parents were deaf, and I had two deaf children and four children
 |
| Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
grandchildren, three of whom are deaf.
Deaf people - what do they think? what do they think?
What is it like to be deaf? My three grandchildren, we all have them
ASL TECHNIQUES:
the different ASL techniques they use.
If a deaf person is born into a hearing family, they have nothing in common
American Sign Language style as children born to deaf parents.
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
Often deaf children born to hearing parents and all deaf children, such as a
in fact, they have language barriers but do not get along well
HEARING LOSS:
a life with hearing loss and people helping them in their families or perhaps
problems will arise where there is no sign language they can find up to
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
later when they got to school.
I worked at the American School for the Deaf, as noted on my ID.
When the children come to school there, they are very limited, many can hear
non-signing parents. In language they are a little limited and they are
I have to fight hard to get more kids.
Deaf children have all kinds of different backgrounds that affect them
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
to read. Some children are deaf and hard of hearing. Sometimes
their age, in terms of development, is a problem.
COMMUNICATE:
I would like to talk to you briefly about ways to communicate with the deaf
people. There is lip reading as well and all deaf people can read other lips.
When I was growing up my parents and, especially my mom, loved to wash dishes too
I spoke at the same time forcing me to read his lips. Now I've done that as
a young child and helped me a lot with my readin
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals:
g skills and my lip reading skills
but not all deaf people have such knowledge to grow up, I am
LIP READER:
a good lip reader as a result. American Sign Language, our first language
the language of the deaf, our cultural language. Established here e
American School for the Deaf as the first deaf school in the country
and it spread all over the country in the background
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
was founded here in the 1800s. Do all deaf people sign in the same way
American Sign Language (ASL) is, in essence, the language of the native speakers.
region of the country they enter,
How many accents do they have? Are they from the northern part of the country? Or south?
SIGN LANGUAGE:
It is the same with sign language as it is with spoken language, there is
various features across the country. Philadelphia people sign a
the date of birth is different from the one from the Midwest states. My sign is this - birthday -
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
birthday - I show you all the different symbols of the birthday name. It's all in
America but the signs are different. Written communication, I have to explain
you too, depending on the origin of the deaf person
to write. When you see an educated person and write notes back
to them, they can respond in American Sign Language and it can be visual
it is confusing, it may seem wrong.
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
For example, when they write, "big house" in Spanish they include the noun and the verb
and adjectives in a different place. American Sign Language is
they especially love French because that is where they come from in the United States. And she is deaf
DIFFERENT SKILLS:
the people here have different skills for learning written language.
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
Communication with the deaf is a vital requirement. Some of them
they can see a little, so they can use an interpreter who can see but some can
those who are blind and deaf rely on touching the hands of an interpreter or
someone deaf so they can feel the signs floating in the middle of
 |
Importance of Effective Communication Between Deaf and Hearing Individuals: |
the wind. They rest their hands like this with an interpreter or their deaf friend
we'll just sign in
