DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 18, 2013
-- screaming helps deaf actress win audition!
Stephanie Nogueras, who is deaf, performed on the Grimm TV series,
as a mermaid. She won the audition in an unusual way - she was asked
by casting directors to scream! For Stephanie to scream was an uneasy
effort because of her deafness. She had no way of knowing if it was
a good scream or a bad scream. It, in fact, was the first time she
used her voice to play an acting role. With the Switched at Birth,
she plays the Natalie role but with no voice.
-- arrested for stealing useless hearing aids
Thyvuth Lin, not deaf, was a long time employee with the Siemens
Hearing Instrument Inc factory. Greedy, he stole hearing aids and
sold these devices for low prices on eBay. He was caught when
eBay customers checked with the Siemens factory on warranty issues.
What Lin did not know was that these hearing aids were useless.
Hearing aids returned to the factory could not be sold again,
and are therefore useless.
-- these medical emergency first responders
At the Brick Township in New Jersey, there was a training program
for about 35 new Community Emergency Response Team members. This
training program went through nine steps. Among these new members,
14 of them are deaf. They took these classes with help of interpreters.
They are trained to work with disaster relief, search and rescue,
medical emergencies, team organization, and terrorism. New Jersey's
Office of Emergency Management provided support for these classes.
of Emergency Management. Exactly where is Brick Township? It is not
too far from Atlantic City.
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