DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, March 3, 2016
-- student telling interpreter what to interpret
Amanda Schuster, who is deaf, is attending cosmetology classes
in Colorado. Her goal is to own her own hairstyling business.
She was able to find an interpeter, but she was specific
on what should be interpreted - meaning interpreter must
slow down, the instructor must get to the point without
talking too much about nothing! It has worked so far.
For a picture of Amanda working on a patron's hair:
http://deafdigest.com/student-instructing-interpreter-what-to-interpret/
-- a relay provider closes for good, blames FCC
Effective March 31, 2016, Star VRS, a relay provider, closes
up for good. The provider spokesperson, in a signed video,
has blamed FCC for the closing. Two reasons were given -
a drastic cut in VRS rates paid the providers; second
reason was that the bigger providers monopolized the
market, making it impossible fro smaller providers to
survive. DeafDigest worries about this trend, hurting
the deaf community in the long run.
-- deaf woman not notified of fire in her apartment building
The Macon-Bibb Fire Department (Georgia) is not too
happy about a deaf woman not being notified of a fire
in her apartment building. An arsonist set off fire
in an apartment on her floor. The fire alarm alerter
in her apartment was not working, despite her repeated
efforts to have the apartment manager fix it. After
seeing water in her living room, she called security
but there was no response. Panicking, she screamed
for help - and luckily a fireman on her floor
heard it and rescued her. In fact when the firemen
arrived on the scene, no one from the apartment office
told them of a deaf resident!
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