DeafDigest Blue - November 27, 2016 Blue Edition Barry Strassler, Editor http://deafdigest.com - updated every Monday America's Unique Deaf Stories; subscription at no cost to you Serving the Deaf Community since 1996; 20th year -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- subscription changes, go to deafdigest.com and click on subscribe and follow the screen weekly DeafDigest Blue & Gold editions also posted at: http://deafdigest.com/ (updated every Monday) Employment ads web site is at: http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Last week's ASL Videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/hearing-employee-refused-to-train/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/fired-and-apology/ This week's ASL videos in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/mediation/ http://deafdigest.com/videos/ex-oralist/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update) -- only deaf passenger at Titanic http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Try products from Harris Communications risk free for 30 days! 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This was the issue raised in an editorial. Replacing bad cochlear ears with newly grown cochlear ears to help patients preserve their hearing? This is what a group of British researchers are saying that can be done within the next five to ten years. Something new or just same old story with these same old promises? Do not know. CSUN is a huge campus, nearly 355 acres. CSUN also has about 200-225 deaf students. How many TTY machines (however, obsolete) are located on the campus that deaf students can use in case of emergencies? Just four! The US  Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Cochlear Australia infringed on the copyright claims of the Alfred E. Mann Foundation with respect to CI designs. The Federal District Court for the Central District of California with respect to awarding of damages. Won't be surprised if Cochlear goes to the Supreme Court. A deaf Floridian has filed a lawsuit against the state over their refusal to allow him to take truck driving tests in order to obtain truck driving license. He said he already has a job lined up - on one condition - that he gets his truck driving license. State says no. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates Deaf Dentist; College Park. MD & Gaithersburg, MD (near Washington, DC & Frederick, MD & also Metro Washington) Complete Dental Services; assistants either know ASL or are deaf more information: http://www.drrattner.com/our-team/meet-our-team/ to contact Dr. Steven L. Rattner, P.A. & Associates: http://www.drrattner.com/contact/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- For postings, announcements and employment ad rates, please email mailto:barry@deafdigest.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- weekly DeafDigest Blue & Gold editions also posted at: http://deafdigest.com (updated every Monday) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- READ WHAT THEY SAY Unlock the phone with CapTel® Captioned Telephone! CapTel shows word-for-word captions of everything a caller says over the phone, letting you read everything that they say - Like captions on TV – for the phone! Captions are provided by a free relay service, no monthly fees or contracts required. For more information or to order call 1-800-233-9130 V/TTY or visit http://www.weitbrecht.com/captel.html For more info about CapTel or any of the many assistive listening devices we offer, email: mailto:sales@weitbrecht.com Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! CapTel® Captioned Telephone – See What Everyone is Talking About! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This week's ASL video in youtube DISAGREEMENT WITH A SCHOOL DISTRICT Many parents of deaf children have disagreements with the school district. An example would be that the parents want to send the deaf child to a residential school but the district wants the deaf child to go to a mainstreamed program. If you live in Virginia, you may be lucky. The state Department of Education has mediation services. The parent and the district can go to mediation and hopefully solve this disagreement issue. Does your home state have it? Maybe you may need to find out. This week's ASL video in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/mediation/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Lip reading tale A deaf man and a hearing man were having a casual conversation. The deaf man thought hearing man said: Do you like lifer? Lifer as in liking something for life? Hearing man actually said: Do you like liver? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This week's ASL video in youtube WHAT IS AN EX-ORALIST? is it a person that graduated from oral school but finally learned ASL at Gallaudet or NTID? or is it a person that always hid his signs at the oral school that he graduated from? You decide! This week's ASL video in youtube http://deafdigest.com/videos/ex-oralist/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- COMMENTS FROM A CART OPERATOR - continuing series People have to be careful not to look at realtime captioners as if they are machines or robots of some sort.  Occasionally a CART captioner may be told to sit in a corner of a room so that he or she won’t be in the way. Many of the speakers might turn their backs on the captioner as they are speaking. What you have to remember is that if the captioner cannot hear or understand what is being said, he or she cannot accurately transcribe what is being said. It is important that the client communicate with the CART captioner about whether the captioner should interrupt in a situation like this. Some people do not want the CART captioners to interrupt the proceedings. They want CART captioners to just do the best that they can and put in parentheticals like “inaudible” or “indiscernible” if they cannot hear or understand what is being said.  Many CART captioners will not interrupt the proceedings unless they have been instructed to do so in advance by the CART consumer because some CART consumers want the captioner to remain as inconspicuous as possible. If you are working with a CART captioner and you would like him or her to interrupt more frequently if he or she cannot hear or understand, please make sure you communicate that to the CART captioner. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- For postings, announcements and employment ad rates, please email mailto:barry@deafdigest.com for Special Notes, go to the bottom of the Gold section -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 10 Years Ago: There are serious behavioral problems on the Mackworth Island, which houses the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, in Maine, not too far from Portland. Serious behavioral problems, yes, but whoa - it has nothing to do with human beings! The island is overrun with wild, unruly turkeys, the source of these behavioral problems. The state fish and game officials stocked the island with birds two years ago as part of a conservational program. This plan backfired since these birds block the road and deposit their droppings everywhere. The school officials need to make a decision to solve this behavioral problem. And this is not a new problem. Way back in the late eighties the island was overrun with menacing, wild dogs! -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- News of the Week - Looking Back 5 Years Ago: DeafDigest has mentioned Mojo Mathers of New Zealand who is hoping to become the nation's first deaf elected MP. Present polling trends have been favorable to her Greens political party. If her party gets at least 12 percent of vote, then Mathers gets in as the new MP. editor's note: she continues as the MP -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- subscription changes, go to deafdigest.com and click on subscribe and follow the screen weekly DeafDigest Blue & Gold editions also posted at: http://deafdigest.com/ (updated every Monday) Employment ads web site is at: http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- DeafDigest Copyright 2016 by Barry Strassler, DeafDigest. DeafDigest conditions and terms http://deafdigest.com/deaf-digest-conditions-and-terms/ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Attention: the employment ads section is at: http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/ All new jobs will be immediately posted in that section