DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, May 10, 2013
-- a medical school refusing a Cued Speech interpreter
Michael Argenyi, a former deaf student at Creighton University
Medical School, will have a trial. He accused the school of
discrimination because his request for Cued Speech interpreters
was turned down. In 2008, he applied for admittance into the
medical school, explaining that he was deaf and needed Cued
Speech interpreters for his classes and labs. The school
accepted him but gave him other accommodations, but no Cued
Speech interpreters. He had to take out a $110,000 loan to pay
for his own interpreters. After two years he got frustrated
and dropped out. Why not ASL? He does not know ASL.
We will see what happens in the courtroom.
-- a deaf ombudsman in Japan
How important is an ombudsman? He is appointed by an agency
to fix small problems that people deal with. Onaka Koji,
a deaf man, has been appointed as the ombudsman on behalf
of the deaf in Otsu, a Japanese city of 350,000 people.
He will help the deaf with many things such as interpreters,
paperwork, setting up appointments, etc, etc. He is actually
an ombudsman, but he prefers to call himself deaf counselor.
-- a deaf Texas Ranger?
Could a deaf person become a FBI Agent? Or even a Texas Ranger?
Texas Ranger's duties are probably the same what the State Bureau
of Investigation agent does. SBI works on state level as FBI works
on the national level. Well, have we ever had a Deaf Texas Ranger?
Yes - and it was Deaf Smith! He only lasted only four months before
he resigned because one of his actions got the Texas Republic governor
angry. Could we see a future deaf FBI agent or even a deaf SBI agent?
Never say never!
(DeafDigest thanks Dr. Steve Baldwin, author, The Legacy of
Deaf Smith, for this valuable piece of information! He is
the nation's #1 Deaf Smith's historian)
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