Accommodations for the Deaf

When you attend to your family events, how can you get involved with your family events?

• Have a one on one conversation

• Sit and do nothing

When you are on a school bus, trying to understand everything in a loud environment?

• Sleep on the bus

• Sit by a friend that will tell you everything

When you go to a doctor appointment, how would you know if they call your name?

• Sit and ignore the whole time

• Have them call you through a phone

• Ask a stranger to let you know

• Your parents would know and let you know

When you listen to the music and you have a hard time understand the words to music

• You look up the lyrics to songs on the internet

• You continue listen to the music

• Find an interpreter to tell you about the song

• Have your parents sings to you

When someone teases you about your hearing loss/deaf, and what do you do?

• Tell them you would tell someone

• Ignore them

• You tell them you are okay with teasing

• Stand up for yourself and tell them you are proud of your identity

When you are playing on a team sports, when you do not know what coach is saying while playing the game

• Ask your coach to come up with hand signals for different plays/moves

• Ask your coach not to say anything

• Ask your coach to tell team players to let you know

• Ask your coach to let the referee to decide what to do

When there is a special menu of the day at the restaurant and you should ask your waitress to

• not to share any information on special menu of the day

• Ask the waitress to write down the special menu of the day

When you do not know about the gate change at the airport,

• You check the large tv screen on gate information

• You ask other people if the gate changed