DeafDigest Mid-Week edition - April 29, 2019
-- a perfect mental health professional for deaf patients
Always difficult to attract ASL-fluent mental
health professionals (ASL-deaf and ASL-fluent
hearing). In residency at Unity Health in Searcy
(Arkansas) is Dr. Tracy Kaufman. She is a former
ASL interpreter before entering medical school.
And most important of all, mental health needs
of the deaf is her #1 priority.
-- first big high tech company to hire full time interpreter
There are many deaf employees in these high tech
companies, especially in Seattle and Silicon
Valley. How many of them have full-time interpeters?
Zero, according to a newspaper story today that
Amazon has become the first big high tech
company with a full time interpreter. A
clarification - it seems that other high
tech companies (Microsoft, Facebook, etc)
hire on-call interpeters, but full time?
No.
-- a Coda entertainer did it; would others do same?
Rosa Condo, who is a Coda entertainer, had all of her
shows captioned for the benefit of the deaf in
the audience. We have quite a few Coda entertainers,
fluent in ASL, that do not have their shows
captioned. They say they love the deaf, love
their deaf parents but still do not caption!
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