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From: tpennick@axion.bt.co.uk (Tim Pennick)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: doggie news
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:31:18 GMT
Reply-To: tpennick@axion.bt.co.uk (Tim Pennick)
Organization: British Telecom Labs
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 21209

>from article <21090@handicap.news>, by Carol.Ashland@f56.n105.z1.fidonet.org
(Carol Ashland):
> Index Number: 21090
> BB>  Carol, the week prior to reading your post I had visited with a two
> BB>  guide dog family that was having problems on occasion with the newest
> BB>  dog relieving himself in the house.  As you stated, it certainly
>
> Not a nice situation.  The school I go to recommends keeping a new dog on
> leash or tie-down at first for about three weeks, or more if necessary, and
> taking it out on a definite schedule.  This can help with relieving
> problems.  A more frequent schedule can be necessary if there is a real
> problem.  I really feel sorry for new dogs, there is so much pressure on
> them at first.  Just think about it:  their lives have been turned upside

I may have misunderstood this posting, and its probably none of my
business, but I would have thought keeping a new guide dog tied up
for three weeks would be bound to massively increase its stress
levels.  If a dog needed this treatment I wouldn't expect the
training centre/school to qualify it.  I was quite suprised when it
was suggested by the trainer of my last dog that I shouldn't
free-run him too much to begin with.  I think he'd have gone
thoroughly over the top if I'd tied him up completely.  Perhaps
that wasn't what you meant, or perhaps its a difference between the
American and British methods of dog training.

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From: Jack.O'keeffe@p0.f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jack O'keeffe)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Bell and Deaf Culture
Date: 17 Apr 92 19:48:02 GMT
Reply-To: Jack.O'keeffe@p0.f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/26.0 - SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA

Index Number: 21232

[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

 JW> In 1833, Alexander Graham Bell wrote a paper for the National
 JW> Science Academy . . .

Which must have been quite an accomplishment, considering the fact
that he was not born until 1847 :-)

... De mortuis nil nisi bonum!

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From: 99681084@uwwvax.uww.edu (Mike Gordon)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: modifying walkman for RFB tapes
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:12:39 GMT
Reply-To: 99681084@uwwvax.uww.edu (Mike Gordon)
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 20934

I know that this must be a frequently asked question, but here
goes:  How hard is it to modify a standard stereo tape player to
play RFB type tapes?  I know I would need to lower the speed and
wire a switch in to only listen to the left or right channel at a
time.

I have a friend who would like to play these tapes on walkman type
player, but can't afford the big bucks for a bookman.
Unfortunately, she can't get any financial help and is just a poor
college student.  (Hey, who isn't?)   Anyways, I'd like to modify a
regular tape unit for her to use.

Mike Gordon  N9LOI
Disabled Student Services
University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
From: Ambrose.Moore@f24.n3602.z1.fidonet.org (Ambrose Moore)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: What a mess!
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:02:21 GMT
Reply-To: Ambrose.Moore@f24.n3602.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3602/24 - ADAnet One (tm) Net, Pinson AL

Index Number: 20865

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

    * Reply to message [3401] of 03-2292
    * Reply created 03-25-92 at 09:31
    * Original message from: JOHN DESANTIS
    * Original message to:   AMBROSE MOORE

                      From the Mouthstick of Ambrose Moore:

 JOHN DESANTIS

 AM>catheters, leg bags and what not.  Seems I'm having one heck
 of a time AM>with my indwelling foley.  Blood lots of blood
 around the catheter, AM>(by-passing), through the catheter etc.

 Using that giant syringe and the saline water I had to flush my
 bladder by filling the syringe with 50cc's squirting it in my
 catheter then sucking it back out with syringe until all blood
 and blood clots cleared up took around ten attempts.

 My urologist explained until I cleared out the blood clots odds
 were that the catheter would keep cloging and scab like area
 would just continue to bleed. It worked perfect for me. But I was
 one scared qaud.....grin.

 John
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Hi John!

Thanks for your reply.  Sounds like the "Irrigation" routine
that I go through about twice a month.  The only thing
different about it seems that when my nurse tried to suck...
..(ick!) the solution out, the catheter seemed to get plugged
each time and it would collapse from the suction of the
syringe.  Well, I was in so much pain with the sweats and the
constant driving of a sledge-hammer on my neck that I just
told her to replace it.  When she did, (and this is a *real*
bonus), she somehow managed to rip a section of my urethera.

She called 911 for an ambulance and explained that there was
nothing else she could do, sheez!  (I still have a cut on my
tongue, for holding back what I really felt like saying!)
I'm on ampicillin now, with no sign of blood, (knock on head).

When I have bouts like these I always wonder how my body is
going to take the high blood pressure when I'm, say, 50 years
old?  The thought of a stroke terrifies me.  TTYL

Regards,
>From the G.W.N.
Ambrose Moore

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From: sed3m@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Sarah Elizabeth Dejong)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Steering Wheel Attachment?
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:23:44 GMT
Reply-To: sed3m@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Sarah Elizabeth Dejong)
Organization: University of Virginia

Index Number: 20814

Hi-
My first posting - what a moment!
Anyway, I am interested in buying a car steering wheel
attachement, often called a "necker's knob", which can flip
down when not in use.
My father had polio and has lost the use of his right arm.
In order to drive, he attaches such a knob at 10:00 on the
wheel.  In the past he had a type that flipped down which makes
it easier for others to drive the car (legally, others can't
use the knob).

The only type he can find these days (if he can find any all)
do not flip down.  Does anyone know where such a flip-down
attachment can be found (NAPA has no clue) and maybe he/she can
tell me the formal name of such a device!

Wow - this was easier than I thought!
thanks - Sarah
From: Karen.Keil@f71.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Karen Keil)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Prominent Deaf People, who are they?
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:55:04 GMT
Reply-To: Karen.Keil@f71.n343.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:343/71 - Seattle Hearing Imp, Seattle WA

Index Number: 21044

[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

 OA> She is working in the Lexington Institute in New York under a
 OA> College work study program, and she has been asked to compile a
 OA> list of prominent people who are deaf and who are minorities
 OA> (black, hispanic, indian, oriental, etc) past or present.

 OA> It seems that they are not too easy to find.

 OA> As a side question,this is for my own curiosity, are there any
 OA> books written on studies of how other societies, ancient or modern,
 OA> have dealt with the deaf people? Was there a serious effort to
 OA> communicate with them or were they just considered freaks?

In answer to question #2,  Deafness, by David Wright, has some
information on how past centuries treated the deaf or educated
them.  By the way, for the most part, any history of the deaf you
come across will deal with the education of the deaf since they are
closely related.  Wright's material deals mostly with European
history.

As for prominent deaf people of minorities...that's a hard
one....all the ones recalled to my mind are/were white or
European.

Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America by Jack Gannon
would probably have information on deaf minority people, but it has
been 10 years since I've read it.

Deaf Women: A Parade Through the Decades by Mabs Holcomb and Sharon
Wood (Dawn Sign Press) $19.95 is a compilation of information,
history, anecedotes and research about deaf women, past and
present....has more than 170 photographs.

If I find more, I'll post it here.

Back to #2.....yes, in some cultures, deaf people were considered
freaks and non-persons.  Chinese people left deaf babies on
mountain tops to die.  Europeans in the middle ages didn't believe
that deaf people had souls and that it wasn't worth the trouble to
teach Christianity to them (not all Europeans believed this,
though).

Hope this helps a little.

Karen Keil

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From: Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: modified Ametter, rf watt meter etc
Date: 11 Apr 92 12:41:37 GMT
Reply-To: Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:396/5.18 - Pontchippi, New Orleans LA

Index Number: 20977

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Well, Scott, I have never seen a talking swr meter, or even any
kind of modified swr meter.  Science products use to modify
equipment for the blind, but I don't even know if they still
exist.  Radio shack has a talking volt ohm meter, but I have not
seen it.  I heard that it works good, but I can't vouch for that.
Science products for the blind, was right out of Philidelphia,
Pensylvania.  I haven't had anything to do with them for sometime
now, so maybe someone else can tell you if they still exist.

               Walter

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From: Allison.Cozzi@f3216.n161.z1.fidonet.org (Allison Cozzi)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Info wanted: car rental
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:02:25 GMT
Reply-To: Allison.Cozzi@f3216.n161.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:161/3216 - Computer Communicat, Concord Ca

Index Number: 21068

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

-> It just kept going through my head that standing in line for 45 minut
-> (about how long it took, I think) wasn't exactly accessability.
-> Personally, I think a disalogue should be started with the rental
-> companies. I just don't have time at the moment to start a new fire.

You might (or *someone* might) want to contact your State's version of
the Association for the Physically HAndicapped. (In California it is the
California Association for the Physically HAndicapped - CAPH.) They
routinely lobby and file law suits when necessary for just such things.
There may be some things in the works. Good group but I agree that it
does take some extra time and energy to fight all the fights that need
to be fought. I don't always have what it takes to make a stink either.
                                                    Allison

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From: Tim.Grady@f450.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Grady)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: artic for sale
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:26:03 GMT
Reply-To: Tim.Grady@f450.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:109/450 - GRADY'S BBS, Rockville MD

Index Number: 21142

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

[This is dated April 5th]

I have an Artic card, version 215 with Business Vision 3.03 and Sonix
version 2 that I'm willing to sell for 800 or best offer.  The version
of Sonix allows you to use the 215 card with other screen reading
packages.  If interested, give my answering machine a call and leave me
a number where you can be reached.  Call (301)424-8128.  Thanks.

Tim

 * OLX 2.2 * This tagline stolen by Off-Line Xpress!

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From: axy01%albnydh2.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu (Altan Yazici)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: alt.autism
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:13:24 GMT
Reply-To: axy01%albnydh2.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu (Altan Yazici)
X-Fidonet: None

Index Number: 21017

Lyle Lexier wrote:

:                                                                      :
:I am still trying to create the newsgroup "alt.autism" if             :
:possible.  But so far without any luck.  If any of you have read      :
:the alt.config newsgroup, then you will know what I mean.  Anyways,   :
:it would be great to have a newsgroup exclusively for discussing      :
:issues relating to autism and autistics.                              :
:                                                                      :
:Talk to you later,                                                    :
:Lyle                                                                  :

It is fine, but there may be some people who cannot get access to
newsgroups.  Myself, for example.  Is anyone interested starting a
list on a listserv similar to l-hcap?

Altan Yazici
From: Bruce.Toews@f802.n348.z1.fidonet.org (Bruce Toews)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Braille translators
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:02:35 GMT
Reply-To: Bruce.Toews@f802.n348.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:348/802 - Andreas Fault Line, Winnipeg MB

Index Number: 20905

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

When it comes to technical support and software upgrading, the best
braille translator in my opinion is the Duxbury translator. It is
much more flexible than Hot Dots in that the translators are
super-customizable, other languages can be used, and there is much
more control over formatting than with Hot Dots. Hot Dots is,
however, also an excelent program in that it is menu-driven, making
it easier for some.

Bruce

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From: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Carla Campbell)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Chance Meetings
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:27:19 GMT
Reply-To: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA

Index Number: 21148

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 BB> I was wondering if or how often any of you have had the
 BB> experience of meeting unexpectedly,

It's happened to me many, many times, though it happened more often when I
was in Boston than it seems to out here in California. (I don't live right
in San Fransisco, so I don't run into as many dog guide users as I would,
up there.)

Often, like the man you know, I hear a familiar command being issued
nearby, or that distinctive "harness sound", or I simply hear a "good boy"
or "sit" in a place where it isn't likely to be being addressed to a pet
dog.  Occasionally, I meet up with someone on the bus or train with a guide
dog.

Once, in boston, Chance and I were waiting at the top of an escalator to
meet a friend at a T (subway) station. We had moved off to one side, so we
were out of the way of pedestrian traffic-- at least I *thought* we were--
and Chance was sitting quietly beside me.

Then, in an uncharacteristic startled movement, he was standing up,
squirming and wagging. I had been off in a world of my own, thinking about
the day ahead, and quickly moved to correct him and return him to a sitting
position.

As it turned out, he was being sniffed by another dog which I had not heard
approach.  The woman working the dog was having a bit of difficulty
controlling her/him, and, obviously frustrated, she snapped "Get your dog
on a leash! This is a guide dog and your dog is distracting him!"

After Chance was again sitting, I commented that my dog was in a harness as
well as on a leash, and apologized for stopping so close to the escalator
as to provide a distraction for her dog on its way down. She hurried off,
and I still don't know if she "got it" or even accepted my apology.

Another time, also in the subway, I met up with another guide dog user and
we chatted briefly and casually about our dogs while waiting for the train.
I didn't expect to meet up with her again, but a few weeks later, I found
myself at a party in her apartment, to which I had been invited by her
boyfriend, whom I knew through a mutual friend. Go figure.  It can be a
very small world.

... Internet Address: campbell@well.sf.ca.us

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From: Christopher.Baker@f14.n374.z1.fidonet.org (Christopher Baker)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Phantom pain research
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:49:01 GMT
Reply-To: Christopher.Baker@f14.n374.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:374/14 - Rights On!, Titusville FL

Index Number: 21027

[This is from the Amputee Conference]

>>> The statement above is totally false.

>>how do you mean that? you mean i have falsely related what the
>>article sez or that the article is false?
>>your participles are dangling. [grin]

> I wish CB could talk to Joyce. He feels everyone experiences the same
> type of phantom pain and probably to the same degree.

when or where did i even imply such a thing? what do you mean by
same type? do mean degree or sensation source? i've had mine for 16
years with little change or abatement despite specific therapy and
surgery for same.

i don't understand where you are coming from in your condemnation
of the SA article, that's all. [grin]

TTFN.
Chris

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From: csmith@norfolk.vak12ed.edu (Chris Smith)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: depression
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:17:34 GMT
Reply-To: csmith@norfolk.vak12ed.edu (Chris Smith)
Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 21020

Jeanne.Mcwhorter@f41.n106.z1.fidonet.org  writes:
> Index Number: 21003
>
> My fellow has not worked in about 10 years.  He was being abused by his
> wife when I met him and has a minus level of self-esteem.  He is
> convinced that he cannot find a job though he speaks several languages
> and is higly computer literate.  The worse thing is that he just can't
> make himself try anymore. . . .
[remainder of quote deleted]

I would suggest finding someone he can help.  Another person like himself,
a non-blind person, a child.

The Red Cross maybe able to use his skills or maybe a church
etc.

In helping others he can help himself.
Chris

csmith@norfolk.vak12ed.edu
From: James.Womack@f71.n382.z1.fidonet.org (James Womack)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Audism
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:00:37 GMT
Reply-To: James.Womack@f71.n382.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:382/71 - BitStream, Round Rock Tx

Index Number: 21062

[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

The postig on audism was a sharing for interested parties regarding
reserach and articles related to deafness. It had nothing to do
with your relationship with your wife nor my personal perceptin of
the same. Such things ar none of my business for two reasons. !.
You married her not me. 2. I'm not a marriaage counselor. I will
respond to your post in further detail later. In the meantime, I'd
appreciate your not attributing statements to me that I never
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From: Jeanne.Mcwhorter@f41.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Jeanne Mcwhorter)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: depression
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:24:35 GMT
Reply-To: Jeanne.Mcwhorter@f41.n106.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:106/41 - Beehive BBS, Houston Tx

Index Number: 21138

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

My fellow is getting counseling from an excellent therapist, and in fact
we alternate between him seeing the fellow alone and seeing him as a
couple.  I don't know what I can do at this point to kick him in the
butt other than threaten to kick him out and he already lives in abject
terror that I will do that.  I've found an advocacy organization that I
think he could volunteer with that would be really good for him, but I
don't know if he will even call the fellow.  He needs someone to prove
that they are not going to turn against him.  I recognize that feeling
because I felt that way before I got into therapy.  He has some pretty
powerful issues from his past, the least of which is that his father
never could deal with his blindness.
  I would love to know how the woman who does the document tranlation
does it. Does she have all the software for different languages on her
speech or does she get the docs on tape?  He has had so many
disappointments throughout his life, and a major one recently when a job
for his business that would have meant major money didn't come through.
He struggles with the business but even when people call him about doing
soimething large, they don't call back.  I believe part of that is his
tone, which is incredibly appoligetic, even though he has nothing to
apologize for.  He has only been out of the battering situation in his
marriage for about 3 months and since I worked in a women's shelter, I
know how hard that hopelessness is to counter.  If even one really good
thing would go right for him, it would be the best thing in the world
for him, but I can't make taht happen for me, much less him.  I did get
him to read the messages on here and hope he will again.  He needs to
know there are really ways he can do somthing and succeed at it.
Jeanne

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From: Debbie.Crafts@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Debbie Crafts)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: nls tb update.
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:18:07 GMT
Reply-To: Debbie.Crafts@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:101/460.0 - VI/BUG, Holbrook MA

Index Number: 21094

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 JD> I agree that nls should drop both flexible disks and
 JD> cassettes and go solely with compact disk.

You won't get any argument from me re: dropping flexible disks.
But I'll squawk loudly if they drop cassettes.  Compact disks are
*not* portable.  You can't drop a hand-full in to your purse, or
tote bag, or whatever.  You can't ppack a walkman-sized unit in to
the same receptical and be able to "read" where ever you go.
Cassettes allow you to have almost the same read-anytime capability
as the sighted enjoy, and I would not be very happy if I had to
give that up!--Debbie

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From: jagnow@al.weeg.uiowa.edu (Al Jagnow)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Born victims
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:36:24 GMT
Reply-To: jagnow@al.weeg.uiowa.edu (Al Jagnow)

Index Number: 21212

Just a thought:

I have some handicapped friends who are continually being robbed,
cheated, or taken advantage of in other ways.  It's almost as
though there were wearing a sign theat says "Victim - Please take
advantage of me."  It seems to be a result of their self-image and
their asseriveness - the image that they project to other people.
Other handicapped people never seem to have these problems.

This seems to be a problem with some 'normal people'  - not just
with 'handicapped'.

Does anyone have suggestions for helping people who seem to be
'born victims'?  Or has anyone else noticed this phenomena?