DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, January 16, 2014
-- we have an overlooked deaf professional football player
Derrick Coleman is not the only professional football
player right now that is deaf. We have another one -
Tony Tatum, from Gallaudet. He tried out for the pro
scouts, and he played a few games with Utah Blaze
(Arena Football League) last season. He is now with
Cleveland Gladiators, another team in the AFL. The
Gladiators have players from Purdue, Ohio State,
Virginia, Marshall, Indiana, etc - these big time
NCAA-I programs, as compared to Gallaudet's NCAA-III
level. Plus many former NFL players are playing in the
AFL.
-- a wrong device for a hard of hearing man
A hard of hearing deaf man. registering for a hearing
convention at a California hotel, asked for a set of
assistive listening devices. When he arrived at the hotel,
he was told that assistive listening devices were not
available. When he got angry, it forced hotel to "borrow"
the device from another hotel. But it was the wrong
bag - smoke alert device, not an assistive listening
device. He has sued the hotel because of discrimination.
-- a soft knock on door on purpose!
The Davenport, Iowa police department did not like
a hard of hearing resident. He was a troublemaker.
A police department employee came to the troublemaker's
house, but knocked on the door so softly. Reason
is that they did not want the troublemaker to hear
the knock to open the door. The troublemaker didn't
hear the knock and the police went away. When
the troublemaker found out about it later, he got
angry - and this led to an official apology by the
city officials and to an out of court monetary
settlement!
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