DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, February 18, 2015
-- Alabama county 911 chief tells people not to text
R.V. White, the Limestone County (Alabama) E911 chief
has been telling people not to use text with 911
calls, instead, to use voice, if at all possible.
Reason is that he wants to free up the 911 line
for the deaf people that need to send emergency
texts. It is the same as non-disabled drivers
being told not to park in disabled parking spots!
-- more and more deaf angry at Hollywood
There is a new hashtag #DeafTalent. It tells
Hollywood to stop using hearing actors to
play deaf roles both in movies and in TV.
#DeafTalent started because hearing actress
Catalina Sandino Moreno was cast in a deaf
role; her knowledge of deafness and of the
deaf is total ZERO. Enough is enough, hence
this #DeafTalent hashtag. But will Hollywood
listen? Very much doubt it!
-- Denmark to honor a deaf device
Denmark will be issuing a new postage stamp
on March 14th to honor devices invented by
the Danish people. One device is the
writing ball. It is a pre-typewriter invented
in 1865 by Rasmus Malling-Hansen, who was not
deaf. As a principal of the Royal Institute
for the Deaf in Copenhagen, he invented
it to help the deaf read and write better.
Another Alexander Graham Bell? Yes, and no,
but Bell hated sign language while Hansen
loved it!
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