>>>The youngest person is often the best speaker, but that's not who is normally in charge.<<
Ideally, I'd like everyone to be capable of making the call, even if that is the only English they know.
Other tricks:
- For some emergencies you might be able to recruit a bystander, neighbor, etc to make the call.
- If in a large enough group, you can sort by skillset. Or you might be able to /combine/ skillsets like tinkertoys - think a semi-billingual person interpreting and a local monoglot making the call and acting as moral support. Or if the kid has to make the call, have an adult there for moral support, even if the adult can't help with the call.
If an emergency happened /during class/, some other things to consider:
- How to communicate across different languages? (Usually we'd expect at least three languages to be in play at once.)
- How to recruit help? (There are fluent English speakers in the building, so being able to convey "Help emergency!" is important.)
- How to convey / follow directions, like "Get an AED / First Aid Kit," or "Open the [locked] door for the paramedics."
- And it might be useful for someone to keep the kids out of the way / relocate them to a different room.
>>...given that your language fluency will give access to an otherwise hard-to-reach population.<<
I can converse in Spanish and ASL, but am not good enough to run a class entirely in either language. And there are other languages than those two in play.
Likely what would happen is we'd need a teacher and an interpreter. (Or multiple interpreters, given multiple languages.)
Apparently, taking interpreters to an already set up class would be delaying / distracting, so you'd need a separate class...and hiring an instructor costs $ that we dont have.
And yeah, translating two languages makes everything take three times longer than normal...and then everyone spends 2/3ds of /that/ listening to language output that makes no sense to them.
>>The amount of training and quality of supplies determines how much time someone can buy.<<
For whatever reason, "Do I have backup, or is it all down to me?" is cutting ahead of "How long does it take help to get here?" in my mind.
Sooner is better than later.
I guess for a lot of things (that usually technically aren't emergencies), I'm used to "DIY or it don't get done," (at least not to a workable quality or in a decent timeframe).
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Date: 2021-06-21 01:58 pm (UTC)Ideally, I'd like everyone to be capable of making the call, even if that is the only English they know.
Other tricks:
- For some emergencies you might be able to recruit a bystander, neighbor, etc to make the call.
- If in a large enough group, you can sort by skillset. Or you might be able to /combine/ skillsets like tinkertoys - think a semi-billingual person interpreting and a local monoglot making the call and acting as moral support. Or if the kid has to make the call, have an adult there for moral support, even if the adult can't help with the call.
If an emergency happened /during class/, some other things to consider:
- How to communicate across different languages? (Usually we'd expect at least three languages to be in play at once.)
- How to recruit help? (There are fluent English speakers in the building, so being able to convey "Help emergency!" is important.)
- How to convey / follow directions, like "Get an AED / First Aid Kit," or "Open the [locked] door for the paramedics."
- And it might be useful for someone to keep the kids out of the way / relocate them to a different room.
>>...given that your language fluency will give access to an otherwise hard-to-reach population.<<
I can converse in Spanish and ASL, but am not good enough to run a class entirely in either language. And there are other languages than those two in play.
Likely what would happen is we'd need a teacher and an interpreter. (Or multiple interpreters, given multiple languages.)
Apparently, taking interpreters to an already set up class would be delaying / distracting, so you'd need a separate class...and hiring an instructor costs $ that we dont have.
And yeah, translating two languages makes everything take three times longer than normal...and then everyone spends 2/3ds of /that/ listening to language output that makes no sense to them.
>>The amount of training and quality of supplies determines how much time someone can buy.<<
For whatever reason, "Do I have backup, or is it all down to me?" is cutting ahead of "How long does it take help to get here?" in my mind.
Sooner is better than later.
I guess for a lot of things (that usually technically aren't emergencies), I'm used to "DIY or it don't get done," (at least not to a workable quality or in a decent timeframe).
Ugh, life/responsibility is/are exhausting.