DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, February 6, 2015
-- a surprise student in a sign language class
Ahmet Davutoglu is a new student in a sign language
class and it is a big surprise. He is the Prime
Minister of Turkey! In Turkey, the Prime Minister
runs the country's affairs. Why is he interested
in sign language? He wants to be able to communicate
with the Turkish deaf and to be able to listen to
their needs. Do we find Obama or Biden taking ASL
classes here in USA? No.
-- reason the deaf lost the closed captioning case
Four deaf people filed a lawsuit against Coquitlam's
SilverCity Cinemas/Cineplex because of no movie
captions. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal
supported the movie house. Why? Several reasons.
The movie complex has captioning equipment. And
at the time of the complaint, 19 of their 20
movies were captioned. The person who complained
did not remember the name of the movie that was
not captioned! And also the person did not properly
fill out the complaint paperwork!
-- the deaf ice cream
Do we have a Deaf Ice Cream? Well, 85 years ago
the Warwick Ice Cream Company opened for business
in Warwick, Rhode Island. The founder Charlie
Clemente Bucci was the father of four sons,
three of them deaf. He wanted the company
to provide employment for his deaf sons. Years
later, one of the deaf Buccis is Bruce Bucci,
a program director in Deaf Studies at Boston
University. This ice cream is the most popular
one in Rhode Island and it is being marketed
right now in China.
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