DeafDigest Blue - May 21, 2017
Blue Edition
Barry Strassler, Editor
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Last week's ASL Videos in youtube
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http://deafdigest.com/videos/deaf-asl-no/
This week's ASL videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/wyoming/
http://deafdigest.com/videos/spinalmeningitis/
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Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
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Saturday's Deaf Picture for your surprise
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Top stories about the deaf:
Schools for the deaf in Wales have been criticized for
not doing much to educate their students. this was the
scathing report issued by the National Deaf Children's Society.
Former South Dakota School for the Deaf superintendent
Larry Puthoff wrote a guest editorial in a Sioux Falls newspaper, crediting the school for his success
in life and apologized for not thanking the teaching
staff for their efforts in teaching their deaf students.
Interpreters in Great Britain said they lack legal
protection by the government in case of issues
with deaf clients.
There was a story in a newspaper in New Zealand about
some doctors refusing to sign deafness certificates
for deaf patients that want to get drivers' licenses.
Captioning is a waste of time for kids. Said who?
Harley Hamilton, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech.
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This week's ASL video in youtube
GALLAUDET STUDENTS ARRESTED FOR BEING DRUNK IN PUBLIC??
Many deaf people, in the past, many years ago, suffered
from Spinal Meningitis that made them deaf.
People with Spinal Meningitis have poor balance at
night. Many years ago, cops arrested some Gallaudet students
that were walking at night outside of the Gallaudet
campus because they thought the students were drunk!
It was not true. The cops did not realize that Spinal
Meningitis causes poor balance at night.
- for ASL News version with captions, please visit:
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Lip reading tale
The deaf person thought the angry hearing person said:
She is a wish
The angry hearing person actually said:
She is a witch
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This week's ASL video in youtube
PARENTS OF DEAF CHILDREN IN WYOMING HAD CHOICES
Wyoming, for many years, had no state school for the deaf. What
did hearing parents of deaf children do?
They had choices - send their children to schools for the deaf
in Montana or Idaho or Utah or Colorado or Nebraska or South
Dakota. And sometimes, at Model Secondary School for the Deaf.
Some parents researched and interviewed superintendents of these
schools before making a choice. This can't happen today because
of mainstreaming programs.
- for ASL News version with captions, please visit:
http://deafdigest.com/videos/wyoming/
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COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR - continuing series
People have to be careful not to look at realtime captioners and CART
providers as if they are machines or robots of some sort.
Occasionally a CART provider may be told to sit in a corner of a room
so that he or she won't be in the way. Many of the speakers might
turn their backs on the CART provider as they are speaking.
What you have to remember is that if the CART provider cannot hear or
understand what is being said, he or she cannot accurately transcribe
what is being said. It is important that the client communicate
with the CART provider about whether the CART provider should
interrupt in a situation like this.
Some people do not want the CART providers to interrupt the
proceedings. They want CART providers to just do the best that they
can and put in parentheticals like "inaudible" or "indiscernible"
if they cannot hear or understand what is being said.
Many CART providers will not interrupt the proceedings unless they
have been instructed to do so in advance by the CART consumer because
some CART consumers want the CART provider to remain an inconspicuous
as possible.
If you are working with a CART provider and you would like
him or her to interrupt more frequently if ¦he or sh ¦cannot hear or
understand, make sure you communicate that to the CART provider.
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News of the Week - Looking Back 10 Years Ago:
Well known evangelist Jerry Falwell passed
away this week.
What was his connection to the deaf? In the
early eighties he opened a TTY Medical Relay
hotline center in a building on the campus of
University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
Deaf people in need of medical assistance
could call the TTY hotline from anywhere in USA
to get medical emergency personnel dispatched
to their homes.
This center lasted for few years before
funding shortages closed it up for good.
This center was viewed with mixed acceptance
by the Deaf Community because of Falwell's
background.
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News of the Week - Looking Back 5 Years Ago:
Jennifer Hennderson, 53, a deaf woman from Jamaica, passed
away after leading a rather ordinary life. But she has become
the focal point of a family feud that led to police intervention.
The issue was where would she be buried. One group wanted her
buried in their cemetery whereas the group wanted her body in
their own cemetery. It led to violence between these family
members! At this point, this issue has not been resolved.
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