Listening to Chris: The Mutual Path of Accommodation
In listening to Chris, and in accommodating myself to his needs, I have learned a lot about him, about his disability, and about myself.
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In listening to Chris, and in accommodating myself to his needs, I have learned a lot about him, about his disability, and about myself.
We started captioning videos for people with disabilities. It turns out this also helps a bunch of other people.
While the Internet has opened up a vast amount of information to all computer users, computer screen reading software has also given me, as a blind person, access to that source of information and communication.
Chris said that when his parents gave him his first voice synthesizer, he went from not speaking to talking in complete sentences in one day. I praise God for Christian leaders like Chris who can speak so articulately. He talks about disability, of course, but more importantly, he talks about what it means to be human.
A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students from their Fluid Interfaces Group created a combination of hardware and software which allows people to use the movement of their hands in the air to interface with a computer. A wearable computer would allow a person who uses ASL to sign to a hearing person, and the computer would interpret the message into spoken English.
Every year at Christmastime, to my great pleasure, my wife gives me a puzzle-a-day calendar. Recently, one of the puzzles substituted each word in a familiar proverb with a rhyming word. The puzzle was to guess the proverb. For example, “Many guys sound ghoulish,” becomes “Penny wise, pound foolish.” Another was “Sniff a true wit’s bare pit.” Know the proverb? I’ll tell you the answer at the end of this post.