DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, May 6, 2015
-- a nice surprise for a police department
In Waupaca County (Wisconsin), a deaf couple came
to the police station and gave them a stack of sign
language booklets. These booklets have simple sign
language gestures for the police to communicate with
the deaf for any reason. Each police officer now
has the copy for quick reference. Why not
interpreters and why the booklets? Yes, interpreters
but it normally takes them at least 30 minutes
to arrive at the scene - hence these booklets!
-- Health First Pharmacy to serve the deaf
The Health First Pharmacy will be serving the
deaf; the staff has been trained on how to
communicate with them. It is a pharmacy with
chains located across the nation. Where is
that pharmacy? Sorry, not in USA but in
Dubai!
-- a deaf irony in Wales
Wales (part of the Great Britain) has a bad reputation for
discriminating against the deaf. The Department of Work and
Pensions is an agency in Wales which more or less functions
as our SSA. This agency gives out deaf devices for the deaf
people in need. Anyway, this agency has a deaf employee and
he asked his agency for this deaf device. His reqeust
was denied - because people that work for that agency are not
eligible to receive deaf devices!
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