DeafDigest Blue - July 10, 2016 Blue Edition Barry Strassler, Editor http://deafdigest.com - updated every Monday America's Unique Deaf Stories; subscription at no cost to you Serving the Deaf Community since 1996; 20th year -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- subscription changes, go to deafdigest.com and click on subscribe and follow the screen weekly DeafDigest Blue & Gold editions also posted at: http://deafdigest.com/ (updated every Monday) Employment ads web site is at: http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Last week's ASL Videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-crook-in-jail/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/a-deaf-signed-word-fifty-times/ This week's ASL videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/hearing-always-ask-same-question/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-discrimination/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update) -- deaf surgeon http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Try products from Harris Communications risk free for 30 days! 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Top stories about the deaf: It may be ghastly but there was a story at a funeral home in Alton, Illinois about a mummy that was hung in a closet for 80 years. It was William Lee, a deaf man who spent years as a petty criminal, always getting into trouble with the law, but pretty much a home town legend. Gene therapy helping fix deafness? This is what Richard Smith, MD, director of the Molecular Otolaryngology Research Laboratories (MORL) at the University of Iowa is saying. He was written up in a newspaper story. A cochlear implant woman made this interesting comment - Not all deaf people want to be fixed! Was she criticizing deaf people's resistance to a CI? In a newspaper story, she was neutral with her CI views, not 100 percent supporting cI, not 100 percent criticizing CI. Seth Tetteh-Ocloo, a deaf Ghanian man, graduated from Gallaudet in 1965 with a perfect 4.0 GPA and made Deaf Education his career mission, both in USA and in Ghana. His legacy has been honored this week when Access Women Network has profiled the Tetteh Ocloo State School in Ashaiman, Ghana. The Outreach Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Wyoming is threatened with a 40 percent state budget cut. The Deaf Community is fighting back. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates Deaf Dentist; College Park. MD & Gaithersburg, MD (near Washington, DC & Frederick, MD & also Metro Washington) Complete Dental Services; assistants either know ASL or are deaf more information: http://www.drrattner.com/our-team/meet-our-team/ to contact Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates: http://www.drrattner.com/contact/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- For postings, announcements and employment ad rates, please email mailto:barry@deafdigest.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- weekly DeafDigest Blue & Gold editions also posted at: http://deafdigest.com (updated every Monday) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- READ WHAT THEY SAY Unlock the phone with CapTelŽ Captioned Telephone! CapTel shows word-for-word captions of everything a caller says over the phone, letting you read everything that they say - Like captions on TV - for the phone! Captions are provided by a free service, no monthly fees or contracts required. For more information or to order call 1-800-233-9130 V/TTY or visit http://www.weitbrecht.com/captel.html For more info about CapTel or any of the many assistive listening devices we offer, email: mailto:sales@weitbrecht.com Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! CapTelŽ Captioned Telephone - See What Everyone is Talking About! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- youtube video with text HEARING PEOPLE SELDOM ASK DEAF THIS QUESTION A hearing person comes to a deaf person, but often asks this question: Can you lipread? He never asks - what do you prefer - lipreading or texting or notewriting or interpreter? It is always - can you lipread? It is very frustrating. youtube video with text http://deafdigest.com/videos/hearing-always-ask-same-question/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- When you go to the doctor's office..make your visit go more smoothly! You can download a card from the HealthBridges website for yourself that lists the accommodation you want (like an interpreter) to have better communication at your health care appointment http://www.healthbridges.info/?page_id=36 Please remember to like us on Facebook Happy Spring! The HealthBridges Team -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- youtube video with text DEAF DISCRIMINATING AGAINST DEAF Deaf people discriminate against other deaf people? We are not talking about ASL, oral, hard of hearing that fight each other. We are talking about almost-hearing people that discriminate against the deaf. Almost-hearing? Yes, many hearing people have hearing losses (age, noise, etc). Instead of understanding the real deaf, they discriminate against the deaf! youtube video with text http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-discrimination/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR - continuing series Computer-aided transcription (CAT) continued to gain popularity with court reporters in the 1980s and 1990s, and court reporters continued to find that the old method of writing on their steno machines totally phonetically would not always produce the translation they desired. One of the things that reporters became aware of was what are called word boundary problems. For example, if the prefix "en" and the suffix "en" are written the same on the steno machine because they sound the same phonetically, the computer may attach them to the wrong word, and erroneous translations may occur. A reporter might try to write the following sentence. "They will strengthen light enforcement of that policy." The CAT program could translate it as: "They will strength enlighten forcement of that policy." -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- For postings, announcements and employment ad rates, please email mailto:barry@deafdigest.com for Special Notes, go to the bottom of the Gold section -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 10 Years Ago: How much money has been allocated for telecommunications relay services everywhere in USA? It costs $419,724,291 right down to the very penny. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 5 Years Ago: Why do government programs to help the deaf and the disabled fail in Nigeria? The reason is that these government leaders establish programs - without asking the deaf and the disabled or advice and input. An example is establishing a training class for the deaf - but without hiring interpreters, and so on! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- subscription changes, go to deafdigest.com and click on subscribe and follow the screen weekly DeafDigest Blue & Gold editions also posted at: http://deafdigest.com/ (updated every Monday) Employment ads web site is at: http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- DeafDigest Copyright 2016 by Barry Strassler, DeafDigest. DeafDigest conditions and terms http://deafdigest.com/deaf-digest-conditions-and-terms/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Attention: the employment ads section is at: http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ All new jobs will be immediately posted in that section