Michael B. Williams uses a speech generating device in a clip from "How Far We've Come, How Far We've Got To Go: Tales From the AAC Trenches". Full video streamed at http://aac-rerc.psu.edu/index_Williams.html
Fleeting social niceties, jokes, slices of juicy gossip, all were swept under my mental carpet so I could concentrate on conveying what I considered the really important thoughts in my mind. I did this using the most laborious method possible. I drew the letters of each word in the air with my finger, while my would-be linguistic interlocutor winked, blinked and performed all manner of mental gyrations trying to figure out what the hell I was saying.
My really, really important thoughts were typed on my standard manual typewriter at
home, carried to the place of conversation and presented to my listeners with the gravest solemnity, as if they were the Ten Commandments. Needless to say, with communication methods such as these, one has few friends.
LOVE this and also Silentmiaow. Am student of Jacques Derrida the French deconstruction philosopher. Derrida wrote often of marginalizations, digital communications, and now we have what I can call Computelepathy, voice synthezizer speech via web to users who turn into converted fans. God bless you.
Have I told you yet how I communicated with people during this phase of my life? I
learned early on that idle social banter, the verbal caffeine that fuels most societal
interactions, was an activity in which I couldn't easily participate.
trishm828 2 years ago
Fleeting social niceties, jokes, slices of juicy gossip, all were swept under my mental carpet so I could concentrate on conveying what I considered the really important thoughts in my mind. I did this using the most laborious method possible. I drew the letters of each word in the air with my finger, while my would-be linguistic interlocutor winked, blinked and performed all manner of mental gyrations trying to figure out what the hell I was saying.
trishm828 2 years ago
My really, really important thoughts were typed on my standard manual typewriter at
home, carried to the place of conversation and presented to my listeners with the gravest solemnity, as if they were the Ten Commandments. Needless to say, with communication methods such as these, one has few friends.
trishm828 2 years ago
Is communicating disability grammatically correct? Cos that's my thesis title if i mei say so.... Thanx!
milesadmu 2 years ago
is this the colledge prof. off of family guy.
DopeShowHero 2 years ago
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hahahahhahahahaha this is the funniest vid ive ever seen
Bodom15 4 years ago
why do u want to be funsjonshemma
tameelf 4 years ago
LOVE this and also Silentmiaow. Am student of Jacques Derrida the French deconstruction philosopher. Derrida wrote often of marginalizations, digital communications, and now we have what I can call Computelepathy, voice synthezizer speech via web to users who turn into converted fans. God bless you.
vaspers 5 years ago
Caption please?
seaqueue 5 years ago
Machine: I considered this an important part of my life...
Brain: ...........WHAT?
lethalblonde0911 5 years ago