DeafDigest Mid-Week edition - June 18, 2018
-- hearing authors avoid print books
An avid deaf reader of serious novels complained
that more authors avoid print books, prefering
their stories to be told in audio. They are
actually discriminating against their deaf
readers - unless these audios are captioned!
A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/book-about-deaf-in-audio/
-- app to help the deaf with doctors
Two medical students are developing an
app that is supposed to help the deaf
when they visit doctors or hospitals.
This app has many features - interpreted
and captioned videos explaining different
medical issues; deaf patients explaining
to doctors about their pain and illnesses.
Also explaining about different types of
medicines.
-- story on deaf students at a major state university
Are deaf students happy while attending a major state
university? Many are not. Reasons are - feeling
left out, feeling ignored, professors forgetting to
turn on captions in classroom videos, lack of
campus understanding of deafness, interpreters
whose signs are difficult to understand, curious
hearing students not willing to learn ASL, and so on.
It was the focus of long newspaper story about that
big state public university.
Deaf jobs - latest update
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- Titanic's deaf connection
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
06/17/18 Blue and Gold editions & options at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
