DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, January 13, 2016
-- Three Wise Monkeys Play
There is a One-Act Play contest in India. One of the
competing One-Act plays is titled The Three Musketeers.
One is deaf, one is blind and other has no speech.
They work together to solve a murder case. Three
Wise Monkeys? See picture at:
http://35.182.75.222/telling-the-world-what-it-is/
-- between Washington, DC and Frederick, MD
The county between Washington, DC and Frederick, MD
(both large deaf communities) is Montgomery County.
That county, incidentally, has a large deaf population.
But are the police officers ignorant about ADA? There
was a story of a former Gallaudet student arrested by
county police - and interrogated for hours and also
held for a long time - both without interpreters!
The higher the Deaf Community population, the higher
the ignorance level of police, not knowing ADA?
-- a strange wrestling rule
There was a story of a deaf wrestler in a public
high school in Michigan filing a lawsuit, because
he was not allowed to have interpreters with him
during wrestling matches. He won the lawsuit. But
is it strange? The interpreter can stand anywhere
outside of the 28-foot wrestling circle. What if
the wrestler, and the interpreter are at the
far end of the circle? Can the interpreter
hear the coach's commands when everything is
noisy. Also since wrestling is rough and dangerous,
would the interpreter risk injury, if the wrestler
is thrown outside of the mat? It is like an
interpreter standing behind a deaf football player
during a real football game!
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