DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 19, 2015
-- an unusual owner of a store
Anne Rosata, who is deaf, but functions as a hearing
person, owns a store in Palm Harbor, Florida. The
store may be an unusual business for a deaf person as
it is a music school. This school teaches hearing
students how to play all types of music. As a
student at a local community college, she was
advised by a professor to forget music as a career
because of her deafness. She didn't listen!
The picture of the store owner is at:
http://35.182.75.222/unusual-owner-of-a-store/
-- a frustrated deaf poker player
A deaf poker player had a prepaid card with a casino
in Atlantic City, NJ and wanted to transfer the balance
to his poker account so he could play online. He was
told he needed a personal identification number to
make this tranfer. The casino would not even accept
his call through the relay service, thinking the
relay operator could use the information for own
personal gain. He argued with the casino for one
hour - no luck! He is discussing this with an
attorney on the possibility of a lawsuit.
-- Deaf Culture, 10 years ago and now
A Deaf Education coordinator at Flagler College,
St Augustine, Florida made this interesting
comment. She said that ten years ago, her
hearing students could attend an event at
a deaf club and there would be 40 people
there. Now if they go to the same deaf club
there may be 10 people. Why? Maybe five
of them went to a football game and maybe
four of them are having drinks at a local
restaurant. The rest? Involved in the
local community. Who made that remark?
Margaret Finnegan, the Flagler coordinator.
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