DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, August 7, 2014
-- Washington, DC police department is different
In Washington, DC, there is a special police unit
that is called the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Liaison
Unit. This unit communicates with the deaf and
the hard of hearing on serious issues. They can
be found on the Gallaudet campus during big events.
Do other cities have it? Yes, there are police
officers in other cities that know ASL, but are
there special units that work with the deaf?
-- hottest deaf law firm in USA
the hottest deaf law firm in USA is Stein & Vargas,
based in Frederick, MD. And there is an irony,
deaf clients rarely come to the office to discuss
their cases! Attorney Mary Vargas, who is not deaf,
is the one that takes care of the Frederick office
whereas her partner Michael Stein, who is deaf,
operates out of Rochester, NY, where he teaches at
NTID. Vargas worked with the NAD on law cases before
she branched out on her own with Stein. They handle
cases that deal with discrimination, especially with
ADA issues.
-- more deaf signers or more deaf non-signers
Do we have more deaf people that use sign language
or do we have more deaf that don't sign? This was
the issue brought up in a special program on the
British Broadcasting Corporation TV network. The
truth is that we have much more deaf people, either
in USA or in United Kingdom, or even anywhere,
that do not use sign language!
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