DeafDigest - 16 August 2021

DeafDigest Mid-Week edition - August 16, 2021 -- helping solve a crime A newspaper story said that an interpreter helped solve a crime! Really? No. The interpreter just interpreted what the deaf victim of a crime told the police. And the interpreter was given credit for it!   -- struggles of a deaf TV news photojournalist Stephen Bourque, who is deaf, has been a TV news photojournalist for 16 years in Chicago. He is an oralist that knows no ASL. The face mask cut off his lipreading. And for that reason he said he had to depend on common sense and experience to get things done, saying he had to do the best he was able to do so.   -- computer discriminates against the deaf Do computers discriminate against the deaf? Or more specifically the AI! Many companies use AI to screen out "unqualified" applicants and so, for some reason AI has been designed to consider the deaf as unqualified, no matter their background and qualifications. This was what an article in the Microscopy Research and Technique magazine is saying!   Deaf jobs - latest update http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ 08/15/21 Blue and Gold editions & sub options at: http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/

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