DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 10, 2014
-- Survival sign language
What is Survival Sign Language? Using sign language in
order to survive. China, during the 1970's was a much
different nation from what it is nowadays. China was
in big mess as top leaders hated each other. Deng
Yingchao, the wife of premier Zhou Enlai, was deaf.
He was always telling his wife to keep voice down, she
spoke loudly. He was afraid that listening bugs would
pick up their conversation. For that reason, they
used their own sign language to communicate with
each other.
-- king of captioners in Australia
Who is the king of captioners in Australia? It is
Alex Jones. He is deaf and owns the Ai-Media,
an Australian captioning company. It has captioning
contracts with the Sky News and Fox Sports. It also
captions many other TV programs. As this company
is growing fast, it is the #1 captioner in
Australia.
-- deaf wins a discrimination lawsuit against big agency
The Social Security Administration is a huge federal agency
with 11,000 employees in Maryland. Many deaf people are
employed - and they have been discriminated for many years
with no chances for promotion. A deaf man, Ronald Jantz
filed a lawsuit. It dragged on for almost ten years.
Finally the federal judge has agreed to a $10 million dollar
settlement for the deaf and disabled employees that were
denied promotion.
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