Reply to: Deaf Contracting

[TheRefactornator]

Me too.

Me too after a bit of skull trauma a few years back. I hope that stem cell will actually be a working treatment for deafness one day http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7974795.stm

..it does make the news now and again when a new discovery is made, but most stem cell treatment stories at the moment often end with messages like "clinical trials are some way off" and "will hopefully be viable treatment in 10 years". You never know we might live to see treatment one day..but there are definitely worse things in life than being deaf in one ear.

[Ravello]

I'm deaf in one ear? Does that count?

Me too.

[jkoder]

Brian Wilson is deaf in one ear.

I have often wondered if there are one armed contractors.

That's how pair-programming started.

[Durbs]

In the past I have worked with 2 blind coders, both absolutely tulip hot. When I was an op we used to do a special print run (on an impact printer) using the braille chain to print off program listings for one. He used a scanning device to translate what was on the screen into braille (this was circa 1980).

Now that is impressive and i doff my cap to those chaps!

Dont see how it would work these days though? To answer the OP though, I cant see any issue at all with a deaf coder.

[minestrone]

Worked in an office with a blind guy, to be honest I don't know what he did as his monitor was never on but it was an IT role.

Poor dog looked bored out it's tits, basically chained to the desk for 7 hours a day.

[d000hg]

In the past I have worked with 2 blind coders, both absolutely tulip hot. When I was an op we used to do a special print run (on an impact printer) using the braille chain to print off program listings for one. He used a scanning device to translate what was on the screen into braille (this was circa 1980).

The other chap (now a senior manager) had a guide dog which sat under his desk all day. He had some software which magnified the characters on his screen to massive size, and on a 21" monitor he could read a short word.

I always thought that losing my sight is about the worst thing that could happen to me, far worse than losing hearing, legs or an arm. I can't imagine being able to code without seeing.

[d000hg]

On a similar topic, I watched a program last night about a guy with no arms, who had become a fully trained carpenter using his feet to hold and use the tools.

The only problem now is that he can't get a job as health and saftey dictates he has to wear steel toe capped boots when on a building site, which leaves him buggered!

There's a guy on YouTube who plays guitar with his feet.

[d000hg]

I have worked with a deaf contractor. She could lip read, and had a "hearing dog". The latter part caused some issues with our French project - because the French have dogs for the blind, but not for the death - but she'd done such a good job on the UK project, that these objects were not insurmountable.

Lol

[NotAllThere]

I have never met a deaf contractor. Does such a beastie exist ? Is it possible to do the biz in IT if you are deaf ??




just wondering

I have worked with a deaf contractor. She could lip read, and had a "hearing dog". The latter part caused some issues with our French project - because the French have dogs for the blind, but not for the death - but she'd done such a good job on the UK project, that these objects were not insurmountable.

[C5/6]

Slightly different situation with me, I'm wheelchair bound and my hands are affected so that I'm pretty much a one finger typist (but IDE's cut down the amount of typing needed these days).

I know I've not got contracts because of this, but now I've got a reasonably good experience an prooved myself I don't think it's too much of an obstickle.

I think if you need adaptions/support companies won't be willing to supply these for contractors, but if it doesn't really effect the way you work on a day to day basis. Probably boils down to how good is your lip reading & speech?

Edit: please god let me have got affect/effect the right way round before the grammar nazis torch me.

[ba55meister]

I've never met deaf contractors but plenty of daft ones

[Doggy Styles]

I had a deaf project manager once. He read lips pretty well. He was good at managing.

He met his wife at some deaf school and their kids are deaf too. He said when the family used to go out, sometimes people thought they were lunatics because their speech is a bit strange and they wave their arms about a lot. He found that funny.

He's a good man, great sense of humour, and I enjoyed working with him.

[minestrone]

Brian Wilson is deaf in one ear.

I have often wondered if there are one armed contractors.

[ribble]

hereditary or illness ?

unless you were refering to the contracting?

[chef]

niether my mum had preeclampsia.....

to save all those that dont have a clue what that is

from wikipedia
"Pre-eclampsia (US: preeclampsia) is a medical condition where hypertension arises in pregnancy (pregnancy-induced hypertension) in association with significant amounts of protein in the urine. Because pre-eclampsia refers to a set of symptoms rather than any causative factor, it is established that there are many different causes for the syndrome."