DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, January 2, 2013
-- USA will not help, but Finland will help the deaf
The World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) is like our Deaf United
Nations. The WFD needs money. The USA governemnt does not pay a cent,
but the parliament of Finland has donated about $66,000 to the WFD.
Why Finland and not USA? Anyway WFD has 133 member nations. There
are WFD conferences where delgates discuss issues about the deaf and
of deafness.
-- An important person in National Football League is a Coda
Ronnie Baynes, a Coda and a former teacher at Alabama School
for the Deaf and Blind, is an important person with the National
Football League. He refereed football in the SEC for 13 years
and in the NFL for 14 years. No longer a referee, he has been
working for the NFL for 12 years as the supervisor of rookie
referees. He may possibly have had his past rookies become Super
Bowl referees. Who was his father? Harry Baynes, the legendary
teacher and coach at Alabama deaf school.
-- Why does China have so many deaf people?
China says their deaf population is almost equal to Australia's
hearing population. Why? In China, many children get medicines
that were bad for them - such as antibiotics for a fever. As a
result these hearing children become deaf.
-- deaf owner of a store at a big shopping mall
At the Southern Park Mall in Youngstown, Ohio, there is a store
called Touchdown Gifts. It is owned by Stephanie Mansour, and
she is deaf. She started small, with a 6 by 6 kiosk, but the
business grew so much that she moved to a store about 10
years ago. The store sells gifts and novelties with logos of
Pittsburgh Steelers, Penn State, Cleveland Browns and Cleveland
Indians. Is she a sports fan? She "knows" nothing about sports
but knew these logos were popular and hot-selling! She knows
sign language and communicates with hearing customers by
lipreading.
-- must be careful with a big donation
In Wales, Specsavers is a chain of hearing aid stores. Specsavers
donated $13,000 to the Wales national deaf rugby team. The deaf Wales
national team agreed to have all deaf players get hearing tested by
the Specsavers audiologists. But what happens if a deaf player is
tested by a non-Specsavers audiologist? Would Specsavers punish the
Wales national deaf rugby team? It is the same as a NBA player wearing
Reeboks, not allowed in NBA because Nike is the official NBA shoes
supplier.
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