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Where do hearing impaired folks go on the web?
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| HeatherBres_NY 2005-05-18, 10:53 am |
| I work for a company called Paltalk and we are extremely interested in
launching groups for hearing impaired individuals to communicate via
sign language with each other online using webcams. However, I am
unable to locate research that would inform me if this is a good idea.
My question to this group: Where do you go online to communicate with
others online? Would you want to join a service that allows you to
communicate with other hearing impaired individuals?
I would appreciate any insight that you may be able to offer.
Heather
About Paltalk
Paltalk offers video chat, instant messenger application that allows
you to IM any buddy from AOL, Yahoo, MSN and ICQ (think of Trillian)
and virtual conference rooms(to communicate with others/conduct
business online- daytraders, religious groups, distance learning, etc).
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| "HeatherBres_NY" <heather@corp.paltalk.com> wrote in message
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>I work for a company called Paltalk and we are extremely interested in
> launching groups for hearing impaired individuals to communicate via
> sign language with each other online using webcams. However, I am
> unable to locate research that would inform me if this is a good idea.
> My question to this group: Where do you go online to communicate with
> others online? Would you want to join a service that allows you to
> communicate with other hearing impaired individuals?
>
> I would appreciate any insight that you may be able to offer.
>
> Heather
>
> About Paltalk
> Paltalk offers video chat, instant messenger application that allows
> you to IM any buddy from AOL, Yahoo, MSN and ICQ (think of Trillian)
> and virtual conference rooms(to communicate with others/conduct
> business online- daytraders, religious groups, distance learning, etc).
>
Sorrenson VRS already allows this type of communication. There are
a few private message boards that I use, along with IRC.
Might I make a suggestion, Heather. If you're going to be marketing to
those who
use sign language, most of them are probably culturally Deaf, and use of
"Hearing Impaired" is a dergoatory, no longer used term. I don't think
offending potential patrons is what you wanted to do. So you might want
to brush up on what are correct current terms.
I know most in this newsgroup are not culturally Deaf. So, you might
not get a big response. If you're looking for a target audience, I suggest
you locate Colleges that cater to those d/hoh.
You can email me offlist if you wish and I can set you up with a few
other places that has signing users that would use your product.
deafline[@]gmail[dog]com
good luck..
rk
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| Bill M 2005-05-18, 10:53 am |
| RK is right. "Hearing impaired" isn't a good term to use. "Deaf" and "hh"
are better.
Bill M
"RK" <rk@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "HeatherBres_NY" <heather@corp.paltalk.com> wrote in message
> news:1115733340.551313.143590@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
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> Sorrenson VRS already allows this type of communication. There are
> a few private message boards that I use, along with IRC.
>
> Might I make a suggestion, Heather. If you're going to be marketing to
> those who
> use sign language, most of them are probably culturally Deaf, and use of
> "Hearing Impaired" is a dergoatory, no longer used term. I don't think
> offending potential patrons is what you wanted to do. So you might want
> to brush up on what are correct current terms.
>
> I know most in this newsgroup are not culturally Deaf. So, you might
> not get a big response. If you're looking for a target audience, I
> suggest
> you locate Colleges that cater to those d/hoh.
>
> You can email me offlist if you wish and I can set you up with a few
> other places that has signing users that would use your product.
>
> deafline[@]gmail[dog]com
>
> good luck..
>
> rk
>
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| Honestly if you want to consider yourself impaired that's fine with me. I
consider it a very negative label and am fine with hard of hearing or deaf.
Or even just saying I have a hearing loss.
<HHIssues@aol.com> wrote in message
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> That's just your opinion. There are some out there with a hearing loss
> that prefers "hearing-impaired". You're just going to have to accept
> that. If some prefer to use "hearing-impaired", why should you let that
> bother you ?
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> Not everyone has to use the same term or has to decide to be called the
> same, you know. And the same goes for different groups. Not just the
> deaf, hearing-impaired or hard of hearing, etc...
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