DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, March 2, 2011

- The Deaf Education Core Group turns down a meeting
with Steve Noyce, Superintendent, Utah Schools for the
Deaf and Blind.

Noyce wanted a meeting to discuss the issues. The Core
Group felt the meeting would not be productive. The hot
issue is the ASL/English bilingual philosophy that the
school administration has not accepted and in which the
Core group wanted to be implemented.


- A deaf goalie on hearing soccer team suspended for 6 months

Tom Boyle is a deaf goalie for a hearing soccer team in
Southsea, England. He was angry at other team's player,
and threw the water bottle on the ground. It squirted
water in the referee's face. The referee threw him out of
the game. The soccer league suspended him for six months -
and that means he cannot play for the Deaf British Soccer
team for games against other deaf European teams!


- a famous actress joins the "Switched at Birth" cast

Last month DeafDigest Mid-Week edition mentioned a
new TV series - Switched at Birth, which is all about
a deaf baby and a hearing baby being switched to wrong
parents at birth. This program is getting a famous
deaf actress - Marlee Matlin. People have asked DeafDigest
when this series will start. It will be sometime during
the summer.


- sneaking a cell phone in a prison

Many hearing prisoners use cell phones that friends
sneak in for them. The use of cell phones is not allowed
in all prisons. Well, Frank C. Buccini is a deaf prisoner
in Pennsylvania. He was using a cell phone to send text
messages. A prisoner guard caught him using the cell phone.
There was a struggle. Buccini said the prison guard
assaulted him. The guard resigned the following day but
the district attorney ia investigating Buccini's cell
phone violation.

- a hearing ear dog in jail!

Kathy Kata, who is deaf, will report to the York Correctional
Institution in Connecticut to serve a 120 day sentence because
of a DWI violation. It not being the first time she was in
prison, she knew what it was all about - and she successfully
convinced the state Department of Corrections to allow her
hearing ear dog to accompany her. Her argument was that since
the jail has accessibility and accommodation issues, the
hearing ear dog will help her know what is going on.