DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, July 8, 2016
-- a special coffee house
Starbucks at the I-10 and Yale, in Houston, TX
is quite something special. It has three deaf baristas
plus a supervisor that knows ASL, plus a hearing
barista that is an interpreter. How do they handle
these very complicated coffee orders? Note pads,
lipreading and gestures. Almost all the time they
do not need help from the barista interpreter.
Regular patrons already know signs for thank you,
cold, hot, more whip cream, etc. If DeafDigest
editor was at that Starbucks location, he would
just fingerspell - P I K E and use the sign for
black, instead of just pointing at the Pike
canister. A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/special-coffee-house/
-- the danger of too many ADA lawsuits
An economist that specializes in cost-factor of these ADA
lawsuits said that if more college video captioning lawsuits
continue then there is a risk. It is that these universities
may stop videos - for all - not just deaf but hearing. If
this happens, everyone loses!
-- CI with noise suffering or no CI with no noise suffering
A CI user said that getting an implant gave him an unpleasant
result - suffering from these noises in restaurants,
bars and other social gatherings. As a result, he
stops going to these social events and just stays home.
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-- hog farmer
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
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