Hello

Haven't tried remote services as we have a team of electronic notetakers 
who sometimes voice for the students (not that often as I think the 
students are not keen). We haven't tried it, but I think it would work 
better to connect the students laptop to a large screen so everyone can 
read the students contribution - this would require a very good facilitator 
though.

UbiDuo guys were in our office last week. Bit plasticky and the screen is 
small, but looks good for small meetings or study groups. I am not sure 
about use in a seminar as it is reliant on everyone being able to type 
quickly and having a screen conversation. Having said that this generation 
of students are so used to Facebook etc. they may be fine with it - it is 
very like Messenger except you can interrupt each other (which I liked!). 
Costs about £1.8K for the pair.

best wishes

Ember



--On 16 May 2012 17:10 +0100 Sheenagh Hull <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Hi All,
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> Any advice?
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> We have an applicant from East Asia who is profoundly deaf, doesn't
> sign, doesn't use her voice outside of her family, and believes she
> will struggle with lipreading English and reading western handwriting.
> Her usual communication is through reading and (hand) writing, I think.
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> So I can see we are talking about communication by (digital) text.
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> For her to know what is said:
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> Maybe electronic note-taking or speech to text reporting… – what is
> your experience of remote services?
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> For her to contribute to discussion… in groups, one-to-one:
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> Connected laptops or laptop to screen? I've seen some reference to
> tablets, iPads, smartphone apps – can you advise? There'll be a demo
> of this 'Ubi Duo' at NADP Conference – which I believe is
> expensive, has anyone experience of it?
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> Have you experience of participating in seminars or doing a presentation
> by text? (pros and cons of the others reading the text themselves, a
> facilitator/support worker reading it out, or text to speech software…?)
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> Best wishes,
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> Sheenagh
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> Sheenagh Hull
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