U.S.S. Deafness Public
Watch Amy Cohen Efron telling the ASL story about the ship called, U.S.S. Deafness Public with a question at the end.
What is your best answer, and why?
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June 9th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
WOW a CHALLENGE question.. Its a tough one.. It will need a lot of thinking. I would say anyone who already have boating experience and can drive boat turn back to the island.. Hmm wow GOOD TOPIC !
June 9th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Isn’t U.S.S. a term that only Navy ships can use? meaning United States Ship, that being the case and the Navy obviously does not allow deaf people to serve in the Navy so no one takes over cuz there no deaf captain and no deaf crew on it.
June 9th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
No one takes over… GOOD ONE! Good point!!!
June 9th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Pretty tricky question! Every deaf/ HOH crews of USS Deafness need to tally the votes. Select the person who is expertise on Ship navigation and Celestial navigation. More likely one of former sailor who is hearing loss will volunteer to control the ship. Or one of any deaf/ hoh person grew up near the sea ports in all their life.
That’s just my assumption since my father was US Navy sailor during Korea War. My ancestors raised by sea port in New England for 300 years.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Hey Amy,
Great question — I love how you make us think!
I hate to be pessimistic. There are lots of happily-ever-after scenarios I’d love to see. But in reality, what we’d have is constant mutiny and the ship sinks. It’s just human nature.
In order for a happy ending to occur, most likely you need another ship. A bigger ship that threatens to blow the U.S.S. Deafness Public out of the water. At which point everyone would hopefully unite, make the most of each other’s strengths, and whoop their common enemy.
Of course, if the captain of the other ship knew his war strategy, he’d be content to drop anchor on the horizon and wait for U.S.S. Deafness Public to destroy itself.
Dang, it’s been a rough week (and it’s only Monday!) so maybe I’m a bit cranky today. Especially after all the bickering on U.S.S. DeafRead, uh, Deafness Public.
Best regards,
Drolz
June 9th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
I would say the person that is bilingual that can communicate fluency at a normal data flow rate skills. Communication is very, very important while operating something big as this ship.
Since there are different groups of Deaf people that have different communication methods on that ship, it is very important to be able to communicate whether they are ten feet apart or 100 feet apart on a big ship.
I am oral and also ASL. I can communicate to a larger group of people in ASL than the group of people using oral verbal. In the oral verbal reality, there is a lot of misunderstandings and need a lot of same repeating conversations.
I am not trying to degrade oral but the fact is true in most cases that oral communication is harder than sign language communication.
June 9th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Good Question! I love your vlogs!!! Regardless of disabilities, the person from the ship who experts in the navigation including plane, car and sailboat. That person is able to steer the cruise named USS Deafness Public to the land safety by making strategies with different people with their experts not based of their hearing abilities. Why? People who with level of deafness, can do like hearing people do. Why I said because of leadership abilities, the leader depends on his or her people to work in the boat. Without people, Leader couldn’t do periodically. Because the boat wouldn’t move at all or turns around indefinitely. Did I win the lottery yet? Smiling!
June 9th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Was this Captain ever a real captain? Did he ever truly know where he was steering to? I suspect he was almost as clueless as the passengers he was ferrying. He knew how to turn the wheel, that’s all, but he was taking his orders (sealed in a 18×80 Milan envelope) by his shrouded masters at One Volta Place. Fortunately, the S.S. Deafhood was nearby, and, noticing the faltering ship, the crew came aboard to offer their help. Not only did the crew of the Deafhood help steer the ship and get the passengers to safety, but they also gave the passengers the skills and tools for steering and guiding their own ships on a true course without intervention from nebulous others with mysterious intentions of their own.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
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June 9th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
My gut feeling tells me that it will be someone who masters in English and speak well will take over the ship. Look at the society right now which is happening with the deaf people who speaks well and masters in English, they are oppressing their own deaf people who do not master in English nor speak well.
June 9th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
the crabs all come up from the sea floor and pull the boat to the bottom and everyone drowns, hence the crab theory
June 10th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Since an implantée can speak and can hear Spoken English, it is most likely that deaf and hard-of-hearing people on the ship may have to ask the implantée to broadcast for S.O.S. on the air waves.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Interesting… Some of them were concerning about writing and speaking in “Perfect” English based on “Communication” which was nothing to do with ABILITY to control the ship! I am concerning about any deaf/HoH crews who have some area of expertise who can control the ship equipment.
FYI, any Pirates seized the ships within their different culture and language.
USS Deafness Pirates CAN seizes any ship! : D
June 10th, 2008 at 6:53 am
If these Deaf people are familiar with Bummy Burnstein parliament procedure, great….they all can decide together who to commander.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:17 am
I agree with no. 11. I believe you are trying to tell us that we have a problem with this deafread. I am tired of people who brought up Rachel’s blog again and again. I don’t want to lose Tayler as our captain. If we lose him, who will run deafread?
June 10th, 2008 at 7:59 am
TO:
no one takes over,
Crab Theory,
Hey, I didn”t think about that and it could be!
Next question may be;
Which group is more likely to start the crab theory ideology?
June 10th, 2008 at 8:17 am
What a way to make me think the first thing in the a.m.! Fun vlog Amy!! Hope these passengers are equipped with life jackets in case a Titanic-like disaster strikes!
In the case scenario you have just described: No one knows how to steer the ship and no there is radio. In reality, there would be a crew who assists the captain and they would be the next closest experienced people to manage the ship. But in your description, you emphasized that the captain is the only one who knows how to operate the ship.
I do not want to say that it is required for one to be capable to communicate in both ASL and spoken English to be a captain because selecting an individual who knows a thing or two about nautical stuff would be more relevant. However, to maintain communication to the passengers, I would have a captain’s assistant to adopt the role as a communicator, or in other words, interpreter, who is able to channel in both ASL and spoken English. Communication skills and hands-on skills are two different things.
The moral of this story is to make sure that there are other individuals who are trained and prepared to operate any functions (organization, crew, companies, etc.) in case one is not able to do the job any longer. Back-up, baby, back-up!
June 10th, 2008 at 8:50 am
First thing the crew must do is dump ego/pride overboard to lighten ship. Leaders will naturally try to take control of the situation. Hopefully within 1/2 hour, they will select a captain and establish a chain of command. Certainly within an hour or two, would be quite apparent to spot out people with sailing/nautical skills. After that, it’s happy sailing over the horizon.
Notice I didn’t mention type of deafness or method of communication. I think it’s not important as long as this captain has a group of firstmates that can relay orders from top down among all people. I’m sure there be a group of people throwing a hissing fit for not being recognized or having a bruised ego. The most critical requirement is to communicate effectively among others. Due to extreme variety of methods, patience will be required. A good leader understands that.
If leaders fail to lead, people will fail to follow.
Donnie
June 10th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Deaf with CI doesn’t understand the concept of Deaf culture and deafness sicne nobody taught him/her how it affects the Deaf community.
For that reason most of the Deaf community feels uncomfortable about being proven as a medical condition.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:55 am
since (not sicne)
June 10th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Oops… missing words while typing. since( not sicne) about deafness being proven.
Please delete comment above. Thank you.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
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Deafchip
June 10th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Hey DeafChip,
That was pretty good and how true about the words, deafness and Deafhood.
See you in Milwaukee!
John
June 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Gotcha, David!
DeafNESS
vs
DeafHOOD!
June 10th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Gotcha David! That is the main reason I have a strong feeling that a deaf person who speaks well and think English is more important than ASL will take over USS Deafness Public ship.
We need to get rid of the term “Deafness”. That’s old vocabulary unless we elect to allow this to continue. That remains to be seen!
June 10th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Amy Cohen Efron’s response to all of the commenters:
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June 10th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Hi everyone including John, Jean and Joey
Perhaps, we should take an opportunity by invading USS Deafness Public after its controlling captain died. Then we christen and call it USS Deafhood or should it be HMCS Deafhood?
Wait and see what happened.
Deafchip
June 10th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Amy,
When I finished my response, I saw your video response. If I waited a bit longer, I would not make the response above.
Yes it is fun to see many different perspectives and I find that really good entertainment and pleasure.
Well done!
Deafchip
June 11th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Amy,
Everyone has different perspective which it is a very positive thing. We can create all different ideas as a team work/ brainstorm. I still believe some day (sooner) that one or more person CAN be a leader of the Deaf Community to overcome the obstacles over the Audism.
I am ready for it but I rather to have people to work together with “two” heads together as one head on my own. Our strengths and weakness skills can be mixed together which we CAN overcome the obstacles. That’s why, I do not make any judgment on any person who have CI, Cued, PSE, Oral and ASL. I always cherish and respect deaf people’s background.
I love the question about USS Deafness! Very tricky one!
June 26th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I view the USS Deafness Public as a metaphor of one aspect of a Deaf Society. Most respondents seem to have not gotten the allegorical aspect. The Idea of a Deaf USS will be excellent for a novel showing the personal dynamics between leader and his subordinates. Perhaps in different parts, independent of each other with different characters in each part, with different leadership styles, with different mentalities or life philosophies or backgrounds of the crews.
Some Hearing persons who deny the existence of Deaf Culture or those One-Worldies who think that Deaf people ought to not fragment themselves from the Society by forming their own culture, and als view that Deaf People are just deaf citizens who may use sign language if they so desire without a distinct culture. They will not entertain a Deaf USS, but may attempt to sabotage it.
Any novelist out there who can flesh out the idea into characters, events and conflicts that may correspond to what have happened with us Deaf people?
August 11th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I would think everyone should work together as teamwork… communication is the key…