Essential Sign Language for Hospital Visits
Document Type
Poster
Event Website
https://source2022.sched.com/
Start Date
16-5-2022
End Date
16-5-2022
Keywords
Accessibility, Lexicon, Sign Language
Abstract
This project is towards hospitals and the type of patients that they interact with such as the hard of hearing and deaf population that would come in to get help. In hospitals you never know what will happen or the atmosphere it will have. We also aren’t informed if they do have an alternative way of communicating for those who cannot hear or of hard of hearing. The basic and most used form of communication is by voice while speaking between patient and doctor/nurse. Hospitals can be calm or hectic, loud or quite that’s also factoring how other people act. For those who are hard of hearing or deaf they would also need assistive communication devices that they are required to have other than an interpreter. I found this an interesting topic or important because in today’s society we are now becoming more aware for those who need assistive technologies/interpreters. As a hearing person I feel that we take for granted the things that we are able to have while others don’t have access to them. Since we don’t see or hearing about assistive technology for that population, they are unsure if that is available for them to us and it’s also a small percentage that someone in the hospital knows basics of sign language or know if the technology they have is up to date. To help I am assembling a lexicon of basic sign language.
Recommended Citation
South, Kira, "Essential Sign Language for Hospital Visits" (2022). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 60.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2022/CEPS/60
Department/Program
Accessibility Studies
Additional Mentoring Department
Accessibility Studies
Video Presentation
South, Kira closed_caption.txt (7 kB)
Video Captions
Additional Files
South, Kira Source Presentation ASL in Health Care.mp4 (50441 kB)Video Presentation
South, Kira closed_caption.txt (7 kB)
Video Captions
Essential Sign Language for Hospital Visits
This project is towards hospitals and the type of patients that they interact with such as the hard of hearing and deaf population that would come in to get help. In hospitals you never know what will happen or the atmosphere it will have. We also aren’t informed if they do have an alternative way of communicating for those who cannot hear or of hard of hearing. The basic and most used form of communication is by voice while speaking between patient and doctor/nurse. Hospitals can be calm or hectic, loud or quite that’s also factoring how other people act. For those who are hard of hearing or deaf they would also need assistive communication devices that they are required to have other than an interpreter. I found this an interesting topic or important because in today’s society we are now becoming more aware for those who need assistive technologies/interpreters. As a hearing person I feel that we take for granted the things that we are able to have while others don’t have access to them. Since we don’t see or hearing about assistive technology for that population, they are unsure if that is available for them to us and it’s also a small percentage that someone in the hospital knows basics of sign language or know if the technology they have is up to date. To help I am assembling a lexicon of basic sign language.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2022/CEPS/60
Faculty Mentor(s)
Naomi Jeffrey Petersen