"From Where I Sit" Video Series

Gregoire's Story – Faculty Response Video Transcript

Dr. Hank Reichman:
Just a great video.

All:
Yeah.

Dr: Hank Reichman:
I just, I thought it was just a wonderful way of just educating what kind of things deaf students need. And also the resources available to them, that technology was just, you know, mind blowing. And of all the videos it had the least confrontational. I mean, some of the other ones you had this feeling sometimes you just found yourself feeling defensive. And I didn't feel that at all in this one. I just sort of felt this is a great story.

Dr. Don Gailey:
In all these cases, these are issues that these students confront in every minute of their lives, everyday, so it's not just the classroom. Where they're confronted with their perceived weaknesses. And so, I think at this stage most students are very experienced and very self-analytical and know their situations. And the ones that are proactive and the ones that we've seen here certainly layout the ground work for what they need. So it's a two-way street. It's not just our accommodation, but it's the willingness of the student to perform and adapt with us as well.

Dr. George Station:
I'm finding that there are rarely things that basically should not be put out to the students in advance. Pretty much everything can be put out to the students in advance. And the only question is how far in advance. Some classes, you can put most of the semester's work up in advance if the course has been around for a while. If it's a newer course or a course that's being revised or something like that, you can't have a lot of lead time necessarily. But with some effort you can usually have, you know, a few days lead time, which is probably enough to give somebody a bit of a head start. One of the things that I experienced about a year or so ago, because I did have a hearing impaired student, I changed my delivery. And it was deliberate because of the hearing impaired student. With the translator, everything was kind of working in the class, but what I noticed was that people who were English language learners, all of a sudden things started changing. And changing for the better, changing for the better. It was because I had changed my delivery.