Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Chapter 12 Topic of Interest
I found the topic on accommodating for both the speaker’s and audience’s physical impairments very interesting. Although it may seem the physical impairments of some speakers can be distracting, I found it very considerate that these speakers prepare for the speeches before hand. They do this by adjusting their setting in order to make their impairments less of a distraction. For example, speakers that use crutches or wheel chairs will make sure that they have plenty of space to move about and nothing in front of them such as a table or podium to act as a barrier. When I read the section on accommodating for the audience’s physical impairments, I was reminded of a community meeting that I attended. There were several speakers and a large audience. The audience consisted of many different cultures and some had head phones used to translate what the speakers were saying. There were several people in the back with a head set that spoke Spanish and Chinese. It was very intriguing watching them do this job.
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I like the topic that you have chosen, it is an interesting one, most of the time the physical impairments of a speaker can be quite distracting. I don’t I remember a time where I was an audience member to a speaker who was physically impaired though. I also had a similar experience like yours where I was at a meeting with my mom and there was an English speaker and a Chinese translator next to her. Every time the English speaker finished a sentence the translator would have perfect timing to repeat after what the other speaker just said and they never clashed and had to talk to each other to fix anything.
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