DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, January 23, 2015
-- a deaf-owned advertising agency with big clients
It is the dream of every advertising agency to have these
clients - Toyota, Tiger Woods Foundation, Lexus,
West Coast Choppers, a big hotel chain, a college, etc.
The agency - AkinsParker, which is located in Santa Ana,
California, is deaf-owned. The owner is Geoff Akins,
and he has operated this business for 10 years. He says
he is a success because of his "deaf eyes" - meaning he
sees things with the ad designs that his hearing
competitors don't!
-- a deaf question at a Super Bowl
Super Bowls always create excitement. In a past Super Bowl
press conference, former quarterback Jim Plunkett was
asked this question - is your father deaf? He was not too
pleased with this question because his father was blind.
-- an interesting family involvement with sign language
Many hearing parents and hearing brothers and sisters learn
signs to communicate with a deaf family member. There is
a twist - in Malawi, a small African nation, there is
a push to teach sign language with families that have
a deaf member. The twist is that the nation is encouraging
aunts, uncles, cousins to learn signs! Normally it is
close family members (mother, father, brothers, sisters)
that learn signs - but not the distant members!
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/deafdigest1
Twitter:
@deafdigest
to make subscription changes, go to http://deafdigest.com,
click on the "subscribe" icon and follow screen instructions
1/18/15 Blue edition at:
http://deafdigest.com/category/newsletter/newsletter-blue-newsletter/
1/18/15 Gold edition at:
http://deafdigest.com/category/newsletter/newsletter-gold-newsletter/
