DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, July 20, 2016
-- Carlsberg discriminates against deaf
Carlsburg is one of the world's best known beers.
Yet this brewery discriminates againt the deaf.
DeafDigest editor is vacationing Porto, Portugal
now and he saw a Carlsberg advertising promotion
offering free beers. To get a free beer the
person must talk to a hidden wall microphone,
saying this beer is the best. A deaf person
with no speech skills cannot get a free beer!
This is discrimination.
A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/carlsberg-beer-free-for-perfect-speech/
-- written notes is not enough
A deaf employee, who is an important person in
his company, had a note taker during company
staff meetings. No interpreter was provided
even though employee's first language is ASL.
The EEOC suggested that written notes is not
enough - because it prevents deaf employee to
ask questions during the meeting!
-- sign language in colors
A researcher at Deafness, Cognition and Language
Research Centre at University College London,
said that there is a rare condition among
deaf people - called synesthesia. This rare
deaf person sees sign language in different
colors. Very interesting!
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- Astronomer, notable deaf, self-taught
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
07/17/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
