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Disability Awareness: Responding to Disability (3)

A Question of Attitude – continued:

  1. give up and go on, assuming you will get the meaning from the context of the rest of the conversation.
  2. ask again and again to have the sentence repeated, until you do understand.
  3. ask the person to spell out the words or use an alternative word or phrase.
  4. get someone else who understands the person better to come over and serve as an interpreter.
  5. make a joke about the situation and laugh at your inability to understand the person.

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