Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!mintaka!oliveb!bunker!hcap!hnews!681!853!Stephen.White
From: Stephen.White@f853.n681.z3.fidonet.org (Stephen White)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Decade Of The Disable
Message-ID: <9449@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 90 03:38:31 GMT
Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP
Reply-To: Stephen.White@f853.n681.z3.fidonet.org
Distribution: misc
Organization: FidoNet node 3:681/853
Lines: 39
Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP

Index Number: 6122

 > view of the preson I'm reading.  I also must have my speechreading
 > processor activated.
 
Speechreading processor activated? Do you regard that as a seperate 
part of you? When did you start speechreading, and were you born deaf?
 
 > I get *NO* help from residual hearing and must rely entirely
 > on
 > speechreading and context.  I have a daughter who is a
 > speech and
 
Well, the problem there would seem to be that you rely too much on 
your residual hearing. Also, I would suggest not trying so hard to 
get every little bit, coz that could be emphasising the "module activation" 
feeling that you have.
Some suggestions could be:... "nk" word endings, like "think".. you'll 
notice that the tounge is put to the teeth, then withdrawn, but the 
jaw and lips dont move.. etc..
 
When I was learning, as a little boy, I used to dream about this disemboided 
lips floating around, saying all kinds of garbage. I think those lips 
helped a great deal, as I was forming the shapes out of my knowledge, 
and thus was able to fit that knowledge into reconizing them...
 
See how that goes..
 
Oh by the way, I dont keep on thinking - "that tounge was over there, 
so that must be an 'e'" etc.. It just comes naturally and doesnt require 
thought, when you can do it properly.
 
 
Steve!
   The Child of a Lesser God!

--
Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!3!681!853!Stephen.White
Internet: Stephen.White@f853.n681.z3.fidonet.org