DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, September 12, 2014
-- another Heather Whitestone
Are we having another Heather Whitestone, a deaf woman, who
was Miss America 1995? We have a deaf participant taking
part in 2015 Miss America Competition right now. It is Miss
Michigan K.T. Maviglia. Every Miss America participant has
a goal in life; K.T.'s goal is to provide hearing aids for
deaf children.
-- an amazed deaf tourist from Scotland
DeafDigest editor was riding the subway with a
deaf friend. A deaf tourist from Scotland saw the signing
and came over. Communication was between American
Sign Language and British Sign Language. This
tourist repeatedly emphasized one word - access.
He was just amazed that for the deaf, access in
USA was much easier than in Scotland.
-- the facts re the Rochester captioning protest?
a group of deaf Rochesterians are pushing the
Regal Entertainment Group to turn on captions
upon demand. Is Regal against captions? No -
and in fact, Randy Smith, the Regal vice president
has a deaf son. The TV set in Randy's house is
always captioned even though the deaf son moved
out 4 years ago. Then why Regal refuses open
captions? Business goes down 50 percent with
open captioned movies. The worst fear? That
Regal, suffering from slow business with
open captioned movies, would close their
Rochester theater.
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