Gallaudet University builts Deaf-Design "Union Market"
WASHINGTON, DC -- Serving Customers, without even talking by VOA on assignment. The market employs and deaf-design for Deaf community and Gallaudet students. A year-old food market in a Washington, neighborhood has become a unique hub of shopping and dining for the city's Deaf community.
Union Market has become a unique hub for the city's Deaf community.
The market employs and caters to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people, and also was built using deaf-design principles to make it easier for Deaf people to communicate. And as VOA's Michael Lipin tells On Assignment, the market is a place where Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people can hang out together.
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