It has been my firm opinion for some time that the fundamental issue facing the disabled today is the problem of access to communication. ( Read more... )
On a related note, it irritates me to no end when someone uses e-mail, I know they use e-mail, I've told them I prefer to communicate by e-mail... and they still end up calling me on the phone, and I end up missing half of what they've said, and I tell them during that phone call to e-mail me, and they never actually do so.
Seriously, I can only do so much. And I know the person would probably much rather deal with e-mail than having to deal with a relay operator...
Re: Communicationcodeman38August 26 2010, 21:10:58 UTC
...and I WOULD have been glad to be included and told about things when I was eight. It may have made the ages of 9-20 (and, I imagine, beyond, but that's upcoming) a good deal less frustrating.
Re: French translationext_238333July 3 2010, 13:22:47 UTC
Thank You, Yes no problems, here is the adress of the site: http://www.asperansa.org/ and the forum of the site where I will post the translation: http://forum.asperansa.org/ I think It's one of the most interesting and tolerant website I have found in French, It's by this website that I have discovered texts of Jim Sinclair and Michelle Dawson!
Valuing Communication
anonymous
July 5 2010, 02:00:01 UTC
I recently wrote similar posts, but I mostly focused on way the value socieities place on communication is a barrier in itself. The U.S., for example, tends to have more speakers than listeners. And that's not truly communication even if everyone involved is able to speak and hear in a typical fashion.
To put it another way, I think communication itself is a societal barrier in the sense that we often don't put forth the effort to really communicate (exchange thoughts and ideas), but are more interested in expressing and reinforcing our thoughts, perceptions and biases. When the way our society communicates makes typical modes of communication so difficult, it's going to be that much more difficult for people who use atypical modes of communication.
"# Ignoring a person's behavior (thoughts can be read from behavior, even when language is unavailable)"
I found this one very true, but I have just thought, that the exact opposite can also happen and is also a barrier to communication: when someone wants to interpret too much a disabled or mentally ill person's behavior (even when the person is verbal) and according to his own criterias, and assuming that those critertias are universal when they are not... it's like the two side of the same coin...
And I have thought about another barrier: When you don't want or expect a disabled person to meet other people with the same disability ( for example if the disabled person is deaf or autistic, it can be missing a great oportunity to meet people with who communication and the learning of communication could have been made easier)
...it was just two ideas, I don't know what you think of them.
Even diagnosticians and the ASA refuse to use email. No matter how many times I've mentioned it. How am I supposed to judge the ability of someone to deal with or diagnose AS if they have genuinely no understanding of a pretty major difference in communication? Maybe the do understand and just don't care? This behavior mystifies me.
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Seriously, I can only do so much. And I know the person would probably much rather deal with e-mail than having to deal with a relay operator...
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Yes no problems, here is the adress of the site:
http://www.asperansa.org/
and the forum of the site where I will post the translation:
http://forum.asperansa.org/
I think It's one of the most interesting and tolerant website I have found in French, It's by this website that I have discovered texts of Jim Sinclair and Michelle Dawson!
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There: http://forum.asperansa.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1661&p=34104#p34104 (translation not finished yet!)
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To put it another way, I think communication itself is a societal barrier in the sense that we often don't put forth the effort to really communicate (exchange thoughts and ideas), but are more interested in expressing and reinforcing our thoughts, perceptions and biases. When the way our society communicates makes typical modes of communication so difficult, it's going to be that much more difficult for people who use atypical modes of communication.
Stephanie (http://embracingchaos.stephanieallencrist.com/)
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"# Ignoring a person's behavior (thoughts can be read from behavior, even when language is unavailable)"
I found this one very true, but I have just thought, that the exact opposite can also happen and is also a barrier to communication:
when someone wants to interpret too much a disabled or mentally ill person's behavior (even when the person is verbal) and according to his own criterias, and assuming that those critertias are universal when they are not...
it's like the two side of the same coin...
And I have thought about another barrier:
When you don't want or expect a disabled person to meet other people with the same disability ( for example if the disabled person is deaf or autistic, it can be missing a great oportunity to meet people with who communication and the learning of communication could have been made easier)
...it was just two ideas, I don't know what you think of them.
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