DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 21, 2014
-- a deaf athlete and a business sponsor
We have few deaf professional athletes. Most of them
don't get sponsorship deals, except for Derrick
Coleman's Duracell hearing aid batteries deal. The
Florida Marine Raiders, a professional indoor football
team (Lakeland, FL) has a deaf player - Munir
Muwwakkill. The Healthy Hearing & Balance Clinic is
a team sponsor. Audiologist T. L. Schneider owns this
business, which has worked with deaf children. An
event is planned next month to feature the team, the
deaf player, the business, and the deaf community.
Speaking of Muwwakkill, he is big - 6'3 and 335 lbs,
and played football at Western Kentucky University
and for 7-8 years with different indoor football teams.
-- a newspaper's best subscription salesperson
Arif Begum is a young deaf man, in his twenties. He wanted to
find a good job but no one wanted to hire him because of his
deafness. But a newspaper hired him - to sell subscriptions.
Almost immediately, he was the best salesperson in his
sales group; his sales are double of other salespeople.
He cannot speak, so how could he sell subscriptions? He uses
the social media to reach potential customers, resulting in
sales. Where is the newspaper? In Kashmir, a small nation,
located between India and Pakistan.
-- airport's deaf actors
Deaf actors performing at a big airport? Sort of, but not really,
but important! Oregon's Portland International Airport will be
rehearsing a mock disaster scene next month. They need deaf
actors to play victim roles so emergency responders (police,
firemen, EMT's) will know what to do and how to communicate
with them. These deaf actors are volunteers, not professionals.
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