DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 6, 2016
-- a big drive to save a deaf TV show
(picture)
Popular TV shows get cancelled all the time.
This is the way business works with the TV
industry - but when Switched At Birth was
to be cancelled after the 2017 season,
the viewers did not accept it. They are
working behind the scenes to try to find
a way to get the series continued. A big
problem, though, is that if the series
continue, we will be seeing "high school
age" performers pushing their thirties
and showing face wrinkles! A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/ily-sign-by-a-beloved-actress/
-- Obama's deaf people
President Obama has two deaf women working in the
White House - Leah Katz-Hernandez, whose job title
is Receptionist of the United States or ROTUS.
The other deaf woman is Claudia Gordon, an
attorney, who works with the Office of Federal
Contract Compliance Programs. These two deaf
women were featured in a BBC story. Come
November we will find out who our next
president will be. This leads to a big
question - will the new president keep
both deaf women? White House politics
being what it is, a new President may
sweep out the old administration people.
Or maybe - a twist - the new President
could replace both deaf women with new
deaf women!
-- a strange request in South Africa
A disabled South African activist made this
request - that all newspaper interviewers,
wanting to interview the deaf, must learn
sign language! Is this a joke? It takes
years to master sign language and an
interviewer cannot learn it in five
minutes just for an interview! Why
not just hire an intepreter? Possibly
because the confidence in interpreters
in South Africa is low.
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