DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, August 21, 2013
-- a city honors NFL's first deaf player
NFL has had a number of deaf and hard of hearing players.
The only two deaf players in NFL was Bonnie Sloan and
Kenny Walker. The city of Hendersonville, Tennessee is
having Bonnie Sloan Day on Sunday, August 25th. Bonnie
played for the St Louis Cardinals in 1973. He could have
had a long career but unfortunately injuries cut it short.
If you never heard of St Louis Cardinals in football, it
is because the team moved to Phoenix. In football Bonnie
was a defensive tackle.
-- Another deaf girl from India lost for 13 years
DeafDigest mentioned few months ago that a deaf girl
got on the wrong train in India and has been lost
from her family for years. There is another one -
a 8 year old deaf girl, riding on the train from
India to Pakistan, got lost, unable to find her
mother. That was 13 years ago, and the governments of
India and Pakistan are now busy trying to locate her
family.
-- hard for some colleges to find CART providers
More deaf students are demanding CART, rejecting
interpreters. And some colleges, wanting to comply
with ADA regulations, are having a hard time finding
CART operators! Said a CART operator - "there is no
registry for CART providers like there is for
interpreters. It is often just a word-of-mouth referral"
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