Meg asked me her questions about the experiences being a deaf blogger and Information Technology work environment, and I am happy to write my personal comments on her site, and I thought myself I could copy & paste my comments here:
Why do I blog? I like to spend my time to look the bloggers and doing my blogging. It is all about my personal and experiences what I had been there, done that. Also, I have gained my experience myself from other bloggers like you, to learn the new things and keep me busy and actively. Since I have a lack of structure with English and grammars, I think the great opportunity for me to write the word, sentence and paragraph to improve my English skills in my blog everyday.
I never pay attention to audio on some sites; I tend to ignore the little symbol of audio. Why? ‘Cause I am deaf, unable to hear and misunderstood the audio sounds.
The job interviews are far little more difficult for me with the interpreters, because most of time the interpreters might misunderstood the abbreviation and IT words like web server, CSS, XML, etc. My best advice to see the interpreter to give my resume to interpreter and I could help him/her to get know each other before interview starts. Personally, I would like to see interpreter who are experienced with IT, and it would be nice to have a best interview.
I have worked two out of three internships related to IT in hearing environment, and I enjoyed every minute of that. I spend heavy amount of the time using the email and documentation for communication with hearing people related to work & project. Sometimes, I do use my body gesture with hearing people to understand, and enjoying teaching them the simple ASL.
As far I know, I require having an interpreter for large meetings. Sometimes, if we have small and short meetings, they need to prepare to type documentation for me to have a meeting and can have discuss to write on notes.
Also I worked an internship in National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, New York, a largest deaf community. The deaf culture in work environment is far more different than hearing environment, I can handle more my signs to students and deaf co-workers, and not having a worry myself to have a paper and pen.
Meg is very interested to finding deaf bloggers out there somewhere, and it would be very interesting to meeting new people of deaf bloggers. I second Justin a support for encouraging deaf to sign up in Meg!
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