DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 10, 2013
-- a minister arrested for mocking a deaf girl
Minister Bosco Miiro, of the Arise Ministries,
was arrested by the police because he made fun
of a deaf girl that attended the services at
his church. The police said an investigation is
ongoing. Terrible! Where was the church? Not in
USA, but in Uganda!
-- a 98 percent interpreter attendance rate
98 percent attendance rate among interpreters?
Interpreters that miss two appointments in 100
assignments are rated 98 percent. Good or bad?
Well, in United Kingdom, 98 percent is the minimum
satisfactory rate according to government rules. A
private interpreting agency was scolded by the
government for having interpreters show up only
90 percent of the time for courtroom hearings.
-- a disabled rights jobs law overlooking the deaf
Gujarat, a state in India, had a law that reserves 3 percent
of the jobs for the disabled. The wording in that law splits
3 percent for the blind and for the wheelchair people. Deaf?
There was nothing in the wording that mentioned the deaf!
A group of angry activists pointed it out, forcing the Gujarat
high court to suspend that law, and instructing the government
to re-write the law to include the deaf!
-- deafness in pro football?
Violence in pro football making some players deaf? Well, late-deafened
Ed Michaels played in the 1943 season and he had to take off
his helmet during the huddle to catch the quarterback's signals!
People thought it was amusing but it is not. The NFL Players
Association is very concerned with concussions and with possible
deafness because of the violence. This organization is learning
more and more about deafness and on how to prevent it among its
active players.
-- apps and the deaf
Few years ago if we say apps, no one would know what
we are talking about. Nowadays apps is part of our
everyday vocabulary. What about us, the deaf? Currently
there are nearly 35 apps - which help us with relay
calls, captions, face to face conversations, etc. And
what is great is that most of these apps are free; some
others only cost maybe a dollar or two.
04/07/13 Blue edition at:
http://35.182.75.222/category/newsletter/newsletter-blue-newsletter/
04/07/13 Gold edition at:
http://35.182.75.222/category/newsletter/newsletter-gold-newsletter/
