DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, March 22, 2016
-- Best Deaf Eyes or Bad Deaf Ears
Best Deaf Eyes or Bad Deaf Ears? Do deaf children
see things better than hearing children? Or do
deafness prevent the deaf from seeing things better?
Hard to say, but NTID researchers Matthew Dye and
Peter Hauser are trying to find out. They are
getting $450,000 from National Science Foundation
to study deaf children to see if they have Best Deaf
Eyes or Bad Deaf Ears! A picture of these two researchers
is at:
http://deafdigest.com/to-research-best-deaf-eyes-or-bad-deaf-ears/
-- dancing is dangerous for a deaf person
Is dancing a dangerous activity? No, but for Nyle
DiMarco, he was sent to hospital for that reason!
During a rehearsal, partner Peta Murgatroyd
accidentally struck him on the face, causing
bleeding. After four stitches to his face, he
was rushed back to finish the rehearsal. They
performed very well - but there were tricks -
he watched her all the time; she tapped
him on the shoulder; she pushed him to
go to different direction; she used little
ASL. What was Nyle's biggest fear? Being
hit on the head again? No! That he would feel
out of sync with her when music changes.
The judges, however, said he did very well.
-- the Green Shirt
A deaf person went to a sub shop to order
a steak sub. The popular sub shop was crowded
during lunch hour. Hearing people, after
ordering their subs, were asked for their
first names. When sub is ready their names
are shouted out for them to pick up their
orders. Deaf customer? The sub shop
owner would not write on the bag "deaf"
or "deaf mute" or "can't hear" etc.
Instead, he wrote down on the bag -
Green Shirt because the deaf person was
wearing a green shirt. When the
sub was ready, the owner pointed at
the Deaf Green Shirt to come and pick
up the bag! Pretty much avoids these
ugly name-insult lawsuits.
Latest deaf jobs:
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Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
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