DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 19, 2013
-- a possible deaf player in Australian Rules Football
Many of us have watched Australian Rules Football on
ESPN or on any of these cable sports channels. This
sport is wild, fast, dangerous, fascinating, exciting
and sometimes strange. There has never been a deaf
player on the highest level (like NFL) in Australian
Football. Alex Hickey, age 18, is deaf and plays for
Geelong Falcons, a junior level team. People in
Australia are saying he may be drafted to play for
one of these highest level Australian Football teams.
-- Six years to create interpreter rules
In Michigan, everyone agrees that deaf people must have
interpreters. In 2007, the state legislators agreed that
state Division on Deaf and Hard of Hearing should write
interpreter rules. Six years later, still waiting and
waiting. Whose fault? State department of Civil Rights
did not like it. There were several hearings. Hospitals
and doctors hated these rules. Finally everyone compromised,
but still more public hearings. Hospitals and doctors say
interpreters must understand medical words. Etc, etc, etc.
Six years, then seven years, then eight years? Who suffers?
We, the deaf, all suffer!
-- a deaf owned coffee cafe
Two deaf partners, Angie Leong and Kent Cheong,
own a coffee cafe that is open for breakfast
and lunch seven days a week. The name of the cafe is
Coffee Sprex. It is a perfect partnership because
Angie is better in brewing these coffee varieties,
and Kent is better in baking and cooking. Where
is that coffee cafe? It is in Kelana Jaya, a suburb
of Petaling Jaya (355,000 people) in Malaysia.
At the cafe, there are special menus where hearing
patrons point for orders.
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