DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, August 14, 2014
-- another deaf player in pro football championship game
We have a deaf player - Derrick Coleman, playing in the
Super Bowl. Now we have another deaf player in a
pro football championship game. Tony Tatum, a past
Gallaudet player, is with the Cleveland Gladiators
team in the Arena Football League. His team is
playing Arizona Rattlers for the ArenaBowl
championship on August 23rd. The Arena Football
League has some players sign NFL contracts.
-- a promise of 100 percent captions
Right now it is:
100 percent - in USA, per FCC mandate on future programs
100 percent - in Great Britain
85 percent - in Australia
In New Zealand, it is just 25 percent; deaf MP Mojo Mathers,
running for re-election, has made 100 percent captions (by
2017) as her campaign promise. Election takes place next
month.
-- a bad interpreting situation at a hospital in Oregon
A deaf man went to the hospital emergency room in
Salem, Oregon. He had to wait 4 hours for an
interpreter to show up. The interpreter did not
understand his signs. Another time, he was in the
same emergency room, and the hospital would not
give him an interpreter. Instead they set up a
Video Remote Interpreter (VRI) for him. Same thing
- he and the interpreter could not communicate. The
angry wife researched and found out that the VRI
interpreter was not certified! The hospital has
promised to improve on its interpreting services.
Will it improve?
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