DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, December 17, 2015
-- nine year old deaf TV star
Nickelodeon and Disney are the two popular TV programs
for children and young teenagers. In United Kingdom,
there is Rocket's Island. And it has a new child
star that is deaf. It is Lauren Press, age 9.
Has Nickelodeon and Disney ever had deaf child
actors? Don't know, but anyway a picture of
Lauren is at:
http://deafdigest.com/deaf-british-child-tv-star/
-- deaf man thrown out of meeting
Robert Tupper, a deaf man living in Halifax (Canada),
asked to speak to the province Law Amendments Committee
about salaries and wages. He was given an interpreter.
But when he and the interpreter showed up, the
Liberal political party members threw him out!
Why? They said he arrived late, but the meeting
had plenty of time left! It backfired. Public anger
quickly forced the Committee to reschedule Tupper's
testimony.
-- tomorrow is very important day
DeafDigest mentioned that the City of Portland
(Oregon) passed a new law requiring TV's in
public places to always turn on the captions.
This new law becomes effective tomorrow
(December 18, 2015). The city, in fact,
set up a website advising people on what
to do if a restaurant or a bar refused
to turn on captions!
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