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Apple QuickTime movie  |  2002-08-14  |  43.1 MB  |  320x240  |  15fps  |  8 minutes, 38 seconds
Transcription: I use this machine to help me communicate every day when people can't understand my sign language and when we're both frustrated. It helps me communicate on the street, like on the bus. One of the rules in communication which is often broken, is waiting for someone to finish speaking before responding. Often people interrupt, assuming they know what the end of the sentence is going to be anyways, and so they just jump in. But I would say rule is waiting for someone to finish, and even pausing before you respond. But that often doesn't happen. Language, and I guess I felt it more because at hom ...