DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, September 3, 2013
-- a deaf man in a forensics crime field
We watch these TV programs - Criminal Minds, Bones, CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation, etc - and we know that the forensics labs
help solve crimes. Do we have a deaf person working in the real
forensics field? Graham Williams, who is deaf, teaches
Forensic Science at the University of Huddersfield in England.
Before his teaching job, he worked for the Forensic Science Service,
a British agency - before budget cuts closed it up for good last
year. He communicates orally and knows no sign language.
-- A busy Deaflymics president
The new Deaflympics president is a deaf Russian, Valery Rukhledev.
In the past, being the Deaflympics president was a part time job,
but it seems to be a full time job with Valery. Do look at his
travel schedule for this month, all on Deaflympics business -
September 4th - flying to Argentina
September 20th - flying to London
September 23rd - flying to New York
and between these trips, meeting with the Russian government officials
to urge them to host the 2015 Winter Deaflympics.
-- Sometimes a problem with interpreters for deaf in the courtroom
Always from time to time a deaf person, in the courtroom, does
not understand ASL or any other forms of sign language, and
cannot follow CART. What is the judge going to do? In extreme
cases, hire an interpreter thouands of miles away to come to
the court room to try to interpret for that deaf fellow. One deaf
interpreter did - flew from the West Coast to the East Coast to
try to interpret. Did it work? In that case, no!
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