DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 6, 2011
- Why are small town Australians more likely to be deaf
than big city Australians?
The Australian Bureau of Statistics said that nearly 7
million Australians live in small towns. And that about
25 percent of them will become deaf. Why? They smoke
too much; drink too much; eat too much - and do not
protect their ears when there is noise! They know it
and they don't care!
- Gallaudet was sort of involved in The American
Revolutionary War 1775-1783)!
The Americans fought in the Revolutionary War to break away
from England and to form USA as a new nation. One of those
involved may have been Gallaudet!
Gallaudet? Elisha Gallaudet hid some members of the New Jersey
militia in his house during the Revolutionary War. The English
soldiers, angry about it, wanted to capture Elisha, but he escaped.
Elisha was one of the earlier descendants of the famous Gallaudet
family - Thomas Hopkins and then Edward Miner.
- A solution for deaf physicians in the operating room
Operating room people - physicians, nurses and technicians,
wear surgical masks. It makes impossible for deaf physicians
to read lips. There have been see-through surgicial masks,
but fogging makes lipreading difficult. Recent technology
has improved on the fogging issue, and it is now being
sold in medical supplies stores.
- All deaf devices ruined in a deaf home
Ianek Zubrzycki, a deaf man, lived in a Deaf House,
with these deaf devices - webcam on laptop, wake up clock,
door signaler, TTY machine, TV with captions, etc, etc.
He woke up one morning and found that all of these deaf
devices were ruined. What happened? A group of thieves
broke into a neighborhood electrical power station to
steal copper wire. As a result, there was an electrical
blackout that hit the deaf man's house. He is very
upset about it and may file legal action against the
local power company.
- A deaf man driving a car on three wheels!
Andrew Mackay left a party so drunk and drove his car
for home. He did not realize the car only had three
wheels and he drove that car for 4 miles until
the police stopped him. He was so drunk that he could
not feel the heavy bumping of the car ride and also
could not notice the sparks coming out of the metal
hub on the missing 4th tire. The judge was so angry
about it and handed a 10-month suspended prison
sentence and 150 hours community service and
suspended the driving license for 3 years.
