DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, February 9, 2011
- TV series "Switched at Birth" (involving a deaf character)
to be broadcast
ABC will show 9 new episodes of the program "Switched at Birth"
which involves a deaf character. The plot revolves around two
teenagers who were switched to wrong families after birth.
One was a hearing baby from a rich family and the other was
a deaf baby from a poor family. Both teenagers confront each
other and learn the truth. Please check your TV guide for
show dates and times.
- A new and different way of paying for our TTY
equipment
In all states, telephone users are charged a few cents
per month on their phone bills. The money goes to a
state fund that pays for our TTY equipment. Well, in
Arkansas, a new bill was introduced to charge cell
phone users for the same thing. The Arkansas bill is
asking that cell phone users be charged up to 3 cents
per month.
- Did a bad TV script make Marlee Matlin look bad?
Marlee Matlin was in the program, CSI's "The Two Mrs. Grissoms"
and a bad script may have made her look bad. In the plot,
she played the role of Grisson's old girlfriend. When
Sara Sidle asked her questions about the car bombing,
Matlin's character responded about her old past with
Gil Grissom, and not at all, explaining about the car
bombing.
- A deaf child may have already grown up and moved
out of the neighborhood but "deaf child" sign is still
there. Why?
A city traffic engineer from Roanoke, Virginia said
in the old days, requests for "deaf child" signs were
handwritten and filed away, and possibly forgotten
for years and years. With computers nowadays, the city
knows the date the sign was posted and will review such
signs from time to time for possible removal (when
the child becomes an adult and moves away).
- Impossible to find a second interpreter for mainstreamed
students?
The Fargo North HS (North Dakota) has five deaf students.
This school has one interpreter, but needs one more.
The high school principal has been looking for an
interpreter for one year - but no luck so far!
