DeafDigest Blue - December 13, 2015
Blue Edition Barry Strassler, Editor
http://deafdigest.com - updated every Monday
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Last week's ASL Videos:
http://deafdigest.com/videos/two-deaf-sign-languages/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/hearing-tired-of-deaf/
This week's ASL Videos:
http://deafdigset.com/videos/tourist-with-map-and-deaf/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/spanish-and-deaf-gestures/
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Sale Pricing on New Signaling Package from Sonic Alert
The HomeAware HA360 Master Signaling Package is the exciting new
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The HA360 Package will alert you to landline/videophone calls,
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Additional transmitters are also available. (The HA360 cannot be used
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Saturday's Deaf Picture for your surprise
a school for the deaf has closed up
http://deafdigest.com/recently-closed-school-for-deaf/
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Top stories about the deaf:
The WIRED magazine ran a piece about a vibrating
vest, saying it becomes the 6th sense that deaf
people use and need.
The city of Syracuse (NY) has been teaching English
to refugees. It is expanding its program to
involve the deaf refugees.
The FCC has yet issued a new directive to make
sure that Wi-Fi calling and VoIP are
hearing-aid compatible.
Threatened with closing because of lack of funds is the
Royal School for Deaf Children in Great Britain.
This school has been teaching the deaf for 250 years!
A father of two deaf children in Tennessee has opposed
the installation of a pipeline at a public hearing.
His reason. Deaf cannot hear emergency sirens caused
by pipeline accidents!
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READ WHAT THEY SAY
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HEARING TOURIST WITH A MAP
Many tourists look at a city map to find their
way around.
DeafDigest editor was lucky. A hearing tourist
came to him but showed him the map, gesturing
"where is that museum?"
It was easy to point to the direction of that
museum. If the tourist talked, instead of showing
the map, then communication is impossible.
http://deafdigset.com/videos/tourist-with-map-and-deaf/
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Deaf 911 calls confuse AT&T
read about it at:
http://deafdigest.com/deaf-911-calls-confuse-att/
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EASY TO COMMUNICATE WITH SPANISH-SPEAKING IMMIGRANTS
A deaf man said he communicated with three Spanish speaking
immigrants. They did not know English, and the deaf man did
not know Spanish - yet they could communicate.
They used gestures that were easy to understand and they
communicated together for a long time!
http://deafdigest.com/videos/spanish-and-deaf-gestures/
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How to qualify for a CI operation?
http://deafdigest.com/deaf-qualifying-for-a-ci-operation/
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WHAT DO INTERPRETERS HATE?
being asked this question:
how long did it take you to learn sign language?
COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR - continuing series
The fingering of a stenocaptioner needs to be very precise. For
example, the ring finger of the left hand can depress the T key on
the top row or "bank" of keys or the K key on the bottom row of
keys. If the captioner depresses both of those keys at the same time
by hitting the crack between the two keys, the letters T and K will
both appear, and when those two keys are combined together, they
become a D in steno.
Since many steno writers start off as court reporters, they learn
short forms for many legal terms. A common way to write the word
"testimony" in steno is TEFT. Another common word for court
reporters is "defendant." A common way to write that word in steno is
TKEFT, which is seen by a steno writer as DEFT.
Even though the words "testimony" and "defendant" do not sound at all
alike, you may see mistakes like these by captioners or court
reporters:
"The testimony is sitting at the counsel table with his attorneys."
"He was sworn, and he gave his defendant in a straightforward
manner."
As you can probably tell, these should read as follows:
"The defendant is sitting at the counsel table with his attorneys."
"He was sworn, and he gave his testimony in a straightforward
manner."
A PET PEEVE OF BEING DEAF
trying to lipread a person that is constantly moving
his head everywhere
(Every deaf person, no matter if it is ASL, oral,
Cued Speech, late-deafened, hearing aid user, CI user,
etc, share these pet peeves. You may laugh or cry)
DEAF HORRORS & NIGHTMARES AT RESTAURANTS
a reprint from 10 years ago
BAD SERVICE IN AN EATING ESTABLISHMENT
When a deaf person encounters bad service in an eating
establishment, he cannot help but wonder if it is because
of communication problems or because the restaurant
people were simply rude or incompetent?
This happened twice to DeafDigest editor in recent
months. He was led to his table but had to wait a long
time to be served. In fact he was bypassed by a waiter
to then tended to a couple of tables that were just
occupied.
And in another case, there was a billing dispute.
And the counterperson would not communicate, insisting
the bill was correct.
In both cases, the involved restaurants went out
of business. Goes back to the question - were the
restaurants so bad to begin with, thus driving away
business - or was it that the restaurant people did not
want to deal the deaf patrons?
to see a list of past horrors:
http://deafdigest.com/deaf-horrors-nightmares-at-restaurants/
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DeafLaw
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
filed a lawsuit, accusing Fedex of discriminating
for many years against the deaf employees.
Fedex has denied it, saying they have been
committed to fair and equal treatment of
all employees, the deaf included.
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News of the Week - Looking Back 10 Years Ago:
A variation of an interpreting scam has been
surfacing at some agencies across the nation. A "client"
would request interpreting services and a third party
would be paying for it in advance. The amount of that
check exceeds the actual cost of the interpreting
service, and the third party would request that the
agency refund the overpayment.
The check, however, is fraudulent and the party
making the "interpreting request" has originated
from Ghana.
Seems scammers in Nigeria and Ghana take turns
concocting different deaf-related schemes.
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News of the Week - Looking Back 5 Years Ago:
Deaf people in Massachusetts think that the state
government is cutting more money out of Massachusetts
Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing than
with other such state agencies and commissions.
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Deaf Apocalypse of the Week:
Do we really remember our past deaf winners?
Seems Marlee Matlin is the one we all remember as
the Deaf Oscar winner. Do we remember who was the
deaf winner of Miss America? Do we remember who
the deaf singer that was #1 in the world during
the fifties? The deaf winner of the Nobel Prize?
The first deaf player in the NFL, and so on?
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