Did you previously qualify for DAS just for being hearing impaired or are you trying to for the first time now and are worried?
This is exactly what my deaf sister in law has been told by CMs.
No, but other accommodations may be appropriate, such as a CM escorting through a dark line with a flashlight for visual impairments. One could try to say that the person could just use their own flashlight and technically that is true; however, from a gust control point of view that could become problematic as some guests would take offense to the person doing so and it could be a source for fights, so it would be better to have a cast member escort them in such situations. The problem then becomes that obviously they are not going to want the CM to be waiting in the standby queue, so there really are no simple answers with this stuff.
Not at all reasonable to expect a CM to escort a guest through the line with a flashlight.
You are changing the focus of the discussion. The posts leading to this stated they didn't qualify for DAS with deaf/hearing impairment. DAS only provided 1 accommodation and that was to wait outside the standby queue. The discussion wasn't hypothesizing about what could be offered, it's about the past and still-current DAS.
I mean, I don't think its on Disney to provide one on one assistance to people and that's beyond DAS anyway. If you are visually impaired and need a guide surely you bring your own?
Not one on one and I never said that they would, but at certain queues that are exceptionally dark and have twists and turns, such as Finding Nemo at EPCOT, Indiana Jones at Disneyland, Haunted Mansion (Both Coasts) definitely will have someone with a flashlight escort a visually impaired guest through the queue, DH has witnessed this a lot, I have seen it a couple of times. But that’s a whole different story, this isn’t about what accommodations would be offered, but the point is they would still need to account for a wait time somehow.
Agreed.
My sister in law does get other, non-DAS accommodations. But nothing that has been announced as part of the changes, and she has always "spoke" (ie her interpreter) to GS in person day of.
Yes, quite possibly. GAC was very different from DAS in that it had various stamps as different accommodations for different needs.
Yep, it was a different time! GAC was very different and like I said the family learned about it from their Deaf community friends, so at the time GAC had different allowances.
I don’t want to discourage you from emailing but I think you will get a more detailed/individualized answer through the video chat. I’m also afraid they won’t tell you anything about what it will be like after the new changes. They seem to be very secretive until May 20th. But it can’t hurt to try!
Am I able to use the chat for questions? I thought it was only for applying?
Did you already do a video chat planning for next week’s visit? If so, when? That DAS should be good for 30 days from the pre-registration. If that puts it expiring prior to the June trip, you can probably re-register next week (depending on when you did the pre-registration).
