DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, September 13, 2013
-- Disney plans a movie about a deaf female deputy sheriff
Susie Cambre, who is deaf, has been in the law enforcement
field for over 30 years as investigator, police officer and
sheriff's deputy in several Louisiana counties. She had to
overcome two obstacles - being a female and her deafness.
No one wanted to hire her - she never gave up and fought,
fought and fought to get these police jobs. Disney will
do a movie and a book about her life story.
-- Philadelphia Sports Radio Show host angry at Deaf football fans
When Washington Redskins played Philadephia Eagles in a NFL
football game, the Eagles won. It made several deaf Redskins
fans angry about it. They created a video, in ASL, that mocked
the Eagles team and the Eagles fans. This lack of respect
made a Philadephia Sports Radio Show host very angry about it.
He posted on a web site, scolding these deaf fans for their
bad behavior!
-- IBM no longer good to the deaf?
For a long time, IBM had a great reputation for giving jobs
to the deaf and for their great pension, great health
insurance and for no layoffs, etc. These deaf IBM employees
were greatly admired by the Deaf Community for these reasons.
Not any more. IBM started to buy out the deaf employees,
started to lay them off. And for the deaf people with
retirement health insurance coverages, IBM is trying
to push them towards Medicare Advantage or Medigap policies.
It may affect all of their coverages (medical, drugs,
dental and vision). Said a worried deaf IBM retiree:
I have to review the material IBM sent me
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