DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, January 12, 2016
-- a vest that makes us sad
This picture is self-explanatory, and so sad.
See the picture at:
http://35.182.75.222/a-sad-vest/
-- accepting a deaf student and kicking her out
There is a new lawsuit. A deaf woman was accepted to a
radiologic technology program at Keiser University in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. When the university officials
realized she was deaf, she was quickly kicked out.
It didn't matter that her employer, Bay Pines Veterans
Administration Hospital, was paying for her additional
training. Lawsuit? Very certainly so!
-- a new type of mental health assistance for the deaf
When a deaf person needs mental health services, it
is not a pleasant situation. Either there is a shortage
of deaf or ASL-fluent mental health professionals
or hearing mental health professionals that know no
ASL and depend on interpreters. In three states
there is a new approach - Certified Peer Specialists
program. Selected deaf individuals become peer
specialists and help deaf clients with their
counseling needs. The states with this such a program
are Minnesota, South Carolina, and Massachusetts.
Hopefully this will grow with more states getting
involved.
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