DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, August 24, 2016
-- a deaf speed artist
We know about speed chess, where chess players
make their moves within seconds, instead of
deciding a long time before making next moves.
Speed artist? Well, Victor Sitali, who is deaf
and from Zambia, is a speed artist. He was seen
completing a portrait in just seven minutes.
As a matter of comparison, deaf portrait artist
William Sparks took months to complete a
portrait of past NAD executive director
Frederick C. Schreiber that was hung at
NAD headquarters. A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/deaf-speed-artist/
-- a different interpreter training program
There is a serious shortage of interpreters
in USA. One state is coming up with a different
approach to training new interpreters. These
interpreting students are prisoners in Louisiana!
They become friends with deaf inmates, learn
some ASL from them, and then sign up for
interpreter training program (inside the
prison walls)! First they do practice
interpreting for deaf inmates and then they
hopefully will get intepreting jobs when they
get out of prison.
-- a big rancher in Texas was a deaf man
Texas, a big state, has many big ranches - thousands
of acres. One of these big ranches was started by
a deaf man - Burnell Butler. He moved his family
from Mississippi to South Texas around 1850 to set
up a ranching business. This ranch survived hard
times and continued to exist right up to the
late 1930's. This seems to be the first story
of a deaf big rancher that DeafDigest has ever heard of.
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- deaf street performer
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
08/21/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
