DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 23, 2016
-- finally a real deaf stamp
We have many, many stamps that honor deaf individuals
- but they were honored for helping the hearing, not
helping the deaf. We have deaf individuals, noted for
helping the deaf, that deserve stamps of their own,
but the Postal Service paid it no attention. Finally,
this Postal Service has come up with a new deaf stamp,
honoring Robert Panara, the long time professor at
Gallaudet and at NTID. He is being noted for his
contributions to Deaf Culture. Hopefully it paves the
way for outstanding deaf individuals (Mac Norwood,
who pushed hard for TV and movies captions; Boyce
Williams, who pushed hard for a long list of deaf
social and educational services and Frederick C.
Schreiber, who pushed hard for first class Deaf
Citizenship rights).
A picture of Panara is at:
http://deafdigest.com/deaf-stamp-for-helping-the-deaf/
-- deaf landmark for sale
The Volta Place, in Washington, DC, is for sale.
Cost as listed by the realtor is nearly $2.4 million.
It was the home of the Alexander Graham Bell
Association for the Deaf (AgBell). It was
a landmark for people that strongly believed in
Oral Education of the Deaf. DeafDigest editor,
who uses ASL, was invited to attend a social
event at the AgBell building few years ago.
The social event was packed with people that
used either - oral and ASL! Everyone was
welcome regardless of their choice of language.
-- perfect person not deaf
India has an interesting attitude. If a deaf person
has no hearing aid, has no CI and speaks perfectly
he is not deaf - in the eyes of many hearing
people of India! This attitude prevents these
deaf people from getting services they need
because of their deafness. The Right with
Disabilities Bill, now in legislative session,
is trying to change it all that.
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- Deaf Culture disagreement
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
11/20/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
