DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, February 22, 2016
-- small village nervous every time a woman is pregnant
Quarad, a village in the Saudi Arabian mountains, 3,300
feet above sea level, has nearly 40 deaf residents
in a population of 1,000 people. These deaf people
marry each other, thus producing more deaf babies.
This is the reason why everytime a woman is pregnant
the village people hold their breaths to see if the
baby is deaf or hearing. Word does get around that
fast! These deaf people lead primitive lives and
communicate via gestures and body language, knowing
no formal sign language. Some of them use videos
in their mobile phones to communicate with each
other. For a picture of two deaf villagers
communicating with each other:
http://deafdigest.com/two-primitive-deaf-villagers/
-- a drunk hearing woman mocks deaf in subway
A group of young deaf people boarded the subway
in Surrey, a city near Vancouver, British
Columbia. A 46-year old drunk woman mocked
their deafness and tried to attack them
with a knife. Two hearing people, seeing
the whole thing, tried to break it up
and she then attacked them! The police
came over and arrested her. She is now
awaiting trial and ordered not to ride
the subways again!
-- a newspaper story woke up the legislators
Few weeks ago DeafDigest mentioned that the
Florida legislators were unaware of lack
of standards for interpreters in the state.
As a result, the House legislators quickly
passed a bill to require certification
for classroom interpreters. All that
remains is for the Senate to work on it.
What bothers DeafDigest editor about
this bill - is that it is for classroom
standards - but no standards for
deaf adults that need interpreters!
Hopefully it is the next step.
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