DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 19, 2014
-- a Sign Language birth certificate
When a baby is born, the parents write the baby's
name on the birth certificate. This is the normal
way of recording the baby's birth. But for
Tomato Lichy and Paula Garfield, a deaf British
couple, they wanted to do something differently.
Instead of writing the name of their baby on
the certificate, they had the baby's name signed
in British Sign Language! Impossible? Many legal
experts thought so, but an attorney made it
possible! Will we be seeing these ASL American
birth certificates?
-- best and worst states for deaf access in courts
What is the best state and the worst state for
access by the deaf in the courts? The National
Center for Access to Justice ran a survey of
50 state court systems. They said the best
state is Connecticut, and the worst states
are Oklahoma, Kentucky, Illinois, South Dakota
and Indiana. Deaf people that need interpreters
in these worst states need to make sure they
are getting good interpreting services!
-- looking for landlords that hate the deaf
Many landlords welcome the deaf. Many other
landlords don't. They discriminate against
the deaf, but are so clever about it
without getting into trouble with the Fair
Housing Rights law. The Austin Tenants
Council (Texas) is hiring a deaf person,
called a tester. His job is to ask these
landlords about vacant apartments. If the
landlord says no vacancy but the tester sees
hearing family renting an apartment, then the
landlord is lying and breaking the law.
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