DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 18, 2012
-- The cashier and the posted "deaf" sign on checkout counter
At one of the Target stores, a deaf cashier checks out
customers' purchases. A sign on his checkout counter
warns the hearing customers that the cashier is deaf.
A hearing customer saw the sign and did not like it.
He wrote a newspaper story about it, wanting to know
if it was important that hearing customers be warned
of the cashier's deafness?
-- Fighting fires with ASL instructions
Fighting fires with ASL instructions? Yes, with air
and water hose equipment. But it is not a human
fire fighter; it is a robot fire fighter! This robot
built by the US Navy research team and is designed to
take commands in ASL. This robot is not perfect and
the researchers need to tinker more with it before
it is 100 percent ready.
-- Hard to find Michigan School for the Deaf campus
The new campus of the Michigan School for the Deaf will be
ready soon. But the drivers may have problems finding
the school in Flint, Michigan if they drive on I-75. There
are no highway signs that tell us about the school campus.
Many schools for the deaf have highway signs but not Michigan.
Why? The Flint city administration did not ask the Michigan
Department of Transportation for signs. And they would not
explain the reason for not asking the state.
-- India's laws permit discrimination against the deaf!
India is a big nation where newspapers always describe
the deaf as deaf-and-dumb or deaf-mute. A research team
with the National Disability Network and the Disabled
Rights Group looked at all of India's laws. They found
150 different laws that discriminate against deaf.
Examples are - deaf not allowed to marry, deaf not
allowed to inherit, not allowed to write wills, not
allowed to drive, etc. Many of these laws are old
but were never changed. Will India's legislators
change these laws?
-- A picture of a deaf street sign
do visit:
http://35.182.75.222/a-street-named-after-a-deaf-person/
DeafDigest credits a well known deaf couple for taking the picture.
you can also visit:
http://35.182.75.222/category/newsletter/newsletter-blue-newsletter/
http://35.182.75.222/category/newsletter/newsletter-gold-newsletter/
