DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, June 21, 2013
-- Another deaf player in women's WNBA basketball league
For years, Tamika Catchings, Indiana Fever, was the only deaf player in
the women's WNBA basketball league. Not any more. There
is another deaf player - Emma Meesseman, from Belgium.
She plays for Washington Mystics. She is 20 years old
and is 6'4 tall and wears two hearing aids while playing.
She is an average player, not a superstar like Catchings.
-- A TV news anchor that supports the deaf
How often do we know of famous people that help the deaf? Very
rare, if any. Well, Gregg Lagerquist is a well known TV news
anchor in Maine. He has been on TV for more than 10 years. He
said that helping the deaf and hard-of-hearing kids in Maine
is one of his goals in life. He wants them to become
successful.
-- Canada discriminating against deaf immigrants?
Canada has many, many deaf immigrants. Yet there is a strange
story of this nation refusing permanent residency for Dmitri
Smirnov, a deaf Russian. He moved from USA to Canada and
is employed as a house painter. Canada says he failed the
language exams. Deaf people are angry because there are many
deaf immigrants that know only ASL and were able to obtain
residential status in Canada. Something funny is going on?
06/16/13 Blue edition at:
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06/16/13 Gold edition at:
http://35.182.75.222/category/newsletter/newsletter-gold-newsletter/
