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Ice Cream Parlour Employs Deaf People

The Brazilian ice cream parlour employs Deaf people.


ARACAJU, Brazil -- A Deaf man has bucked the trend, overcoming obstacles and challenges, to open his own business with an inspiring workplace initiative that breaks new ground for people with hearing difficulties.

Breno Oliveira’s ice cream bar, il Sordo, in Aracaju, north east Brazil, is the first outlet in the South American country where the majority of his staff are Deaf.


Mr Oliveira, 24, who was born with full hearing loss, came up with the idea of opening and running the unique parlour after becoming frustrated at the employment opportunities open to Deaf people.

He decided to challenge the perceptions of what workers with impaired hearing could do by striking out on his own and proving his disability was not a limitation.

Mr Oliveira said: “The idea was to create something that would be inclusive for everyone. il Surdo, happens to be a bar run by deaf people. But it is a shop selling tasty and delicious desserts for everyone.”

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Route 66 Promotions - Deaf Business Spotlight

Deaf Business Spotlight with Convo: Interviews with Deaf-Owned and Employees 'Route 66 Promotions'

The weekly series of Deaf Business Spotlight by Convo’s Community Curators working in partnership with The Daily Moth as the ASL series' Route 66 Promotions.

American Deaf-owned business Route 66 Promotions​ first started in a garage and has now expanded to a storefront with more than 10 Deaf employees. They can print almost everything, from small products to custom t-shirts to large vinyl wall coverings, and offer a variety of promotional services.


Route 66 Promotions prides itself on providing the highest quality work and having a fun, but tightly-run workplace. Our employees are like family and are treated as such. We believe in helping each other strive to be the best they can and to promote the betterment of the community.

After placing your order with our Customer Relations department, your project will then be transferred to the Art Department, where our art gurus will do any necessary design work and provide proofs. From there, your order moves to the production departments for manufacturing. Quality control is then performed, your merchandise boxed/packaged, and shipped out. Promotional products supplier in the St. Louis County, Missouri. You are kept informed on the progress of your project throughout the entire process. Pretty nifty, right? Convinced yet? We thought so, following us on social media.

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Indian Restaurants Staffed By Deaf People

Mirchi & Mime and Chai Pe Charcha restaurants, Deaf waiters staff serve imaginative takes on classic Indian cuisine in Mumbai.


MUMBAI, India -- He will constantly look at your lips to figure out what you're saying, without saying a word in return.

Meanwhile, he will note your order down, with his colleagues mirroring his actions at other tables. This is the scene you will find at two restaurants in the city -- Mirchi and Mime, and Chai Pe Charcha -- which have employed only Deaf people as their service staff.


At the Powai-based Mirchi and Mime, which has 25 Deaf employees, a waiter's uniform reads, 'Sign Language is my super power, what's yours?'. With inscrutable countenance and swift-hand gestures, he would ensure that your order is placed correctly.

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The year-old restaurant conducted an eight-week training programme before selecting these employees. "A lot of them had never taken up a single job in their lives. Their parents had accepted that they would remain jobless. But some others, interestingly, have been the sole earning members of their families," said Prashant Issar, the co-founder of Mirchi and Mime.


Issar, who has himself picked up sign language, added: "We were very certain that we had to capitalise on their abilities instead of focusing on their disabilities and our staff, as such, more dedicated than others. They do not have clutter in their minds."

Talking about her experience of working at the restaurant, Priyanka Singh said through sign language: "TV and movie celebrities appreciate us and salute us for the confidence with which we carry out our duties and bring them joy."

Meanwhile, at the quirky Chai Pe Charcha in Lower Parel -- a haven for tea lover -- there are not only board games kept on the tables with rustic yet colourful walls all around, but there is also a unique staff demographic to top it all. The restaurant has employed two Deaf people as members of its service staff.

Anil Kohli, who himself has had physical disabilities since birth, founded the restaurant only six months ago. He said: "I am blessed with a good family and finances, but not everyone else is. It is too easy to write a cheque for charity and feel good about it, but we're not empowering the unfortunate by doing the same and, instead, only making them more dependent."

People often get surprised when Joel Pereira, one of the employees, rings their bell to deliver food and hands over the bill without saying a word. He said: "People often look at me in shock. They must wonder how a Deaf man can deliver food. But once they gulp down that fact, they smile."

SOURCE - Daily News & Analysis

Mirchi and Mime is a local restaurant located in Powai, Mumbai in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It's staff chiefly consists of people with hearing and speech disability. Most of the activities are undertaken by the staff who communicate with the patrons through sign language, images of whose variations accompany every single item in the food menu.

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Pepperbox Coffee - Deaf Business Spotlight

News with the Daily Moth in ASL, Deaf Business Spotlight with Convo: Exclusive interview with Texan Deaf-owned business 'Pepperbox Coffee'.

AUSTIN, TX -- The Daily Moth is a new ASL radio show, delivers news in video using American Sign Language. The Deaf host, Alex Abenchuchan, covers trending news stories.

This is the first of a new weekly series of Deaf Business Spotlight by Convo’s Community Curators working in partnership with The Daily Moth. The first series' Pepperbox Coffee.

The Daily Moth's interview with fastest coffee brewer in the Wild West and Deaf-owned business 'Pepperbox Coffee' in Austin, Texas on 4001 Medical Pkwy.


Motto: The original coffee cowboys are back to take the reins of the coffee industry once again in Texas. This time through Pepperbox Coffee.

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Deaf Cafe Fingertalk The Indonesian Restaurant

Deaf Cafe Fingertalk is unique! Places to eat it give different ways, message menu through sign language.


TANGERANG, Indonesia -- There are already plans ya guys where are you going to spend the weekend you today?

So, Let us step on the gas to South Tangerang City guys, in this city you can find a place to hang at the restaurants.

A cafe that has a unique concept called Deaf Cafe Fingertalk.


Deaf Cafe This Fingertalk other than those guys, because at this cafe owner Dissa Syakina Ahdanisa recruit employees with hearing impairment as the individuals.

From the cook, until the waitress was Deaf.

In this cafe a unique tradition to order the menu by using sign language.

If you want to order the requests are complicated mending ask for a piece of paper to write on it.

We do not need hard-les sign language before hanging on Deaf Cafe Fingertalk is because at every table already available mini guide KoG.

Various grain also vary guys, not just a dish of Asia, but also western.

Deaf Cafe Fingertalk is located on Jl. Pinang No.37, East Pamulang, South Tangerang City, and already has 2 branches cafes in the city, which is open every day at 10:00 to 19:00 pm.

So, let's enjoy the sensation of hanging pretty Deaf Cafe Fingertalk?

SOURCE - Tribunnews.com

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Deaf Barista Brutally Stabbed, Robbed

Thembelihle Quze, who is Deaf and works at the coffee cafe, was robbed at knifepoint and stabbed.


CAPE TOWN -- Cape Argus: A Deaf man from Gugulethu who survived a near-death experience when he was stabbed twice in the chest and arm during an armed robbery said he fears for his life.

Thembelihle Quze, 23, who recently re-integrated in society when he started working at a coffee shop in Claremont, said Saturday’s attack had made him vulnerable again. He was stabbed while walking home after visiting a friend near his home in Gugulethu NY111.

“Two men came walking towards me, I saw them talking but was not able to hear what they were saying. The one guy came up to me and demanded money. I tried to tell them I didn’t have any, but they weren’t even paying attention to me as I signed. The one guy pocketed me and then stabbed me.”

The two men fled the scene and Quze was helped by neighbours who had seen him. “I could not scream for help. I feel they targeted me because I am deaf; right now I am too scared to leave the house, I have no one to chat to,” Quze said, speaking through a sign language interpreter.

For the past seven months, Quze had been working at I Love Coffee in Claremont as a barista.

At the coffee shop, which comprise mostly Deaf employees, he acquired social and life skills training which is said to have helped him interact with others.

Quze had started gym training and was also teaching clients sign language. A part of his job also included travelling to Joburg which his father, Mbuyiselo Mbali, said encouraged Quze to be more social.

“He refuses to leave the house and we, too, fear for his life. In this area, Deaf people are targets. My son right now is in pain, the stitches in his chest are bleeding. This is not right,” said Mbali.

He said the incident changed his son.

Coffee shop owner, Gary Hopkins said the sweat classes at the gym had helped Quze defend himself during the robbery.

He said the coffee shop, which employs mostly Deaf youth as part of its social enterprise work, hired Deaf people to escape violence and to boost the employment rate. Part of the work programme includes life skills training.

“Most Deaf children grow up in homes where they are overprotected. They become easy targets because they don’t have the necessary life skills.

“Thembe (his nickname), because of the gym partnership we have, has become quite an athlete. He was able to protect himself and smart enough not to carry money on him,” said Hopkins.

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First Deaf Canadian Iron Worker With Certificate

Winnipeg iron worker receives red seal certificate in Canada.


WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Jonathon Anderson is a qualified tradesman. At 26 years of age, he's the first Deaf Canadian iron worker with a red seal certificate.

The national designation lets qualified tradespeople use their skills anywhere in the country, something Anderson said he’s very proud of.

“I'm very happy to be doing what I am doing,” Anderson explained using American Sign Language. “I love my job."

Anderson was diagnosed as Deaf shortly after his first birthday, when his parents noticed he was sleeping through loud noises.

His parents said he never let his hearing impairment get in the way of what he wanted to do.

“He learned to adapt, he couldn't hear but he always had his way of communicating," his mother Bertha Anderson said.

Growing up in Winnipeg, Anderson attended the Manitoba School for the Deaf and St.James Collegiate.

According to his mother, Anderson played hockey and football with the help of an interpreter and by finding unique ways to communicate with his teammates.

“The coaches would often write on the white board to help with the communication,” she said.

Anderson attended Red River College where he earned his iron working qualifications.

Last spring he took his red seal examination and passed.

On Sunday family, friends and mentors gathered at Union Centre to celebrate Anderson’s achievement.

Throughout his career Anderson has worked across the country, but his most significant job was at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

It’s the building he is most proud to have helped build.

"My parents will say my son helped build that building and my sons will say daddy worked there," he explained.

Anderson has also worked on many other buildings in the city, including the RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg, University of Manitoba and True North Square.

He hopes what he has accomplished will inspire youth who also live with a hearing impairment to chase their dreams.

"I want to show people that Deaf people can work with people who are not Deaf," Anderson said.

“You can succeed and prove them wrong if they say you can’t, show them that you can."

SOURCE - CTV News

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Starbucks Opening Café Staffed By Deaf Baristas

A Starbucks store in Malaysia has become the first in the world coffee chain to focus on providing employment opportunities for Deaf and Hard of Hearing customers.


KUALA LUMPUR -- Seattle Times: A Starbucks store in Malaysia has become the first in the global coffee chain to focus on providing employment opportunities for those who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing customers.

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The store in Kuala Lumpur, which opened Wednesday, results from a partnership between Starbucks Malaysia and The Society of Interpreters for the Deaf, the company said.

The society provided Starbucks with two sign-language interpreters during hiring, training and coaching for Deaf employees, and to teach sign language to hearing employees, according to a Starbucks news release.

The store employs 10 Deaf employees and three hearing ones, including the store manager.

“This is an underrepresented community in Malaysia,” a Starbucks spokeswoman said. “Over the years, the team has worked with local organizations to hire Deaf partners [employees] and we wanted to celebrate and recognize the contributions of Deaf workers and people of all disabilities.”

Customers place their orders by filling out a menu ticket that they hand to the baristas. The baristas then key in the orders on a dual-screen system where customers can see if their order is correct. The order number is displayed on a large screen above the pickup counter when it’s ready.

The store also has a Starbucks Card kiosk where customers can check their card balances and reward-program points.

Starbucks currently has no plans to replicate this model beyond the Malaysia store, the spokeswoman said.

SOURCE - SeattleTimes

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Mirchi and Mime - Mumbai's First Deaf Eatery

Mirchi and Mime, Mumbai's first Deaf eatery the fine dining restaurant in India.


MUMBAI, India -- Mirchi & Mime is the city’s first restaurant with a fully Deaf-Mute staff serving the food. Launched just a week ago, this restaurant plans to serve society by creating employment opportunities for the differently abled and at the same time, keeping guests satiated with an interesting regional Indian menu. We checked out the place and were smitten by the bright smiles of the staff and their warm hospitality.


Ambience - The restaurant is tastefully designed in lighter shared paired with wooden furniture making the space look huge. The 2000 sq ft property can host about 80 guests at a time. The walls are decorated with antique kitchenware, cake stands with dome on top have cookbooks and plants in it. On the other side, you’ll find handwritten recipes from various cookbooks dating from the modern right up to pre-independence time... Read More.

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Kentucky Fried Chicken Operated By Deaf People

Deaf Kentucky Fried Chicken in Egypt, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore and Thailand made for and handled by Deaf people.


How to order a meal at Kentucky Fried Chicken in sign language ... to tell the staff that you want to stay to eat in rather than take out ... if you don’t know, then you probably haven’t visited a KFC that is entirely run by speech and hearing impaired employees in Egypt, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore and Thailand.


In fact, one of the first things customers learn at the two KFC outlets is how to order meals and drinks in sign language. Plastered on the walls of the restaurant are pictures of how to use sign language and finger spell, and it helps placing orders, watch how the Deaf KFC employees performance in the compilation.

Deaf Egypt KFC - SigningSensations from the TV show "An Idiot Abroad" Karl Pilkington in Egypt and visits a Kentucky Fried Chicken, the fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken. This KFC is run and staffed by Deaf people.

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Deaf India KFC - India KFC has focused on providing equal opportunity to hearing and speech impaired employees. India has over 70-80% hearing/speech impaired team members.

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Deaf Thai KFC - A special serve store employs Deaf staff in Bangkok, Thailand of KFC 'We Hear Every Dream' sign on counter at KFC store, workers in background.

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Deaf Malaysia KFC - Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant run by the hearing-impaired and speech-impaired employees.


If you wanted to apply for a job at this particular Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, you will have to be Deaf (or speech-impaired). Yes, hearing people cannot apply there Where is that anyway? None other than Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Source

Deaf Pakistan KFC - It is inspiring to see news of twenty hearing-impaired heroes gaining self-sufficiency through employment at KFC Pakistan’s recently inaugurated Deaf-operated outlet in Federal B Area, Karachi.


KFC and FESF (Family Educational Services Foundation) have collaborated to advocate for equal opportunities for the Deaf community in Pakistan. Effectively, over 100 young Deaf men and women have been employed at KFC’s seven Deaf-operated branches. Source

Deaf Singapore KFC - Deaf-operated the restaurant that serves Singapore's favourite finger lickin' good chicken meal, with strong support from its customers.


Fried Chicken (KFC) received the innovative employers award for modifying the workplace for PWDs, and employees at Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre. Source

The community responses has reacted to the Deaf KFC employes on Reddit.

Harland Sanders The Kentucky Fried Chicken History - KFC is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States.


KFC was founded by Harland Sanders, an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. Sanders identified the potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchise opened in Utah in 1952.

KFC popularized chicken in the fast food industry, diversifying the market by challenging the established dominance of the hamburger. By branding himself as "Colonel Sanders", Harland became a prominent figure of American cultural history, and his image remains widely used in KFC advertising. wikipedia.org/kfc

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Indonesian Fingertalk Cafe Employs Deaf People

Deaf Cafe Fingertalk - A first-of-its-kind cafe hires and empowers the Deaf in Jakarta, Indonesia.


JAKARTA -- Deaf Cafe Fingertalk: Frisca Carolina Loho, 25, possesses skills in cooking, sewing, computer design, home repairs and Balinese traditional dancing. However, the woman, who previously lived in Denpasar, Bali, and Cimahi, West Java, said that finding a stable job was a challenge due to fierce competition.


“I have learned a variety of skills so I can take on different jobs. But there are a lot of people without disabilities who can also do such jobs,” she told The Jakarta Post via an interpreter at her new workplace, the Fingertalk Cafe and Workshop, on Jl. Pinang 37, East Pamulang, South Tangerang, Banten province.

She was able to secure a steady job after Singapore-based Dissa Syakina Ahdanisa, a 25-year-old social entrepreneur, and hearing impaired activist Pat Sulistiowati, 65, opened the cafe and recruited hearing impaired workers.

Frisca, who has an academic background in cooking and fashion, was among the few recruits with extensive skills, therefore she also plays a role in training the younger and less-experienced employees... Read The Full Story.

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McDonald's Charged In Discrimination Deaf Job

Deaf News: McDonald's charged by EEOC after canceling interview for Deaf job-seeker in the state of Missouri.


KANSAS CITY -- McDonald’s Corporation has been charged with disability discrimination by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for refusing to provide a sign language interpreter for a Deaf employee candidate.

Ricky Washington, who is Deaf, applied online for a job at a McDonald’s restaurant in Belton, Missouri, in June 2012. When the Belton restaurant manager learned Mr. Washington needed a sign language interpreter for his job interview, she canceled the interview and never rescheduled it, despite Mr. Washington’s sister volunteering to act as the interpreter, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a statement issued Monday.

Mr. Washington indicated on his application that he attended Kansas School for the Deaf and that he also had previous job experience working as a cook and clean-up team member at a McDonald's restaurant in Louisiana in 2009.

Restaurant management continued to interview and hire new workers after Mr. Washington made several attempts to schedule an interview, according to the agency.

After first attempting to reach a prelitigation settlement through its conciliation process, the EEOC charged Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald’s Corporation. and McDonald’s Restaurants of Missouri Inc. in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Missouri, with violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to accommodate and hire a Deaf applicant.

“Removing obstacles in the hiring process for people with disabilities is a national priority for EEOC,” said James R. Neely Jr., EEOC’s St. Louis district director. “All employers, but especially large ones, should join with the agency to make sure everyone has equal access to the employment process.”

The Belton restaurant where Mr. Washington applied for work is owned and operated by McDonald’s Corp., the statement said.

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Starbucks Sued For Discrimination Deaf Employee

Starbucks sued for allegedly discriminating against Deaf staff.


PHOENIX, AZ -- The American Genius: Having a product that is in demand is vital, but maintaining quality help is the very bedrock of successful companies. A business, even the most reputable one, cannot make an impact without respectable, pleasant and reliable employees.

Regulars get used to seeing helpful, friendly faces and before you know it, instead of merely stopping by a coffee shop to grab your favorite cup of joe, a connection is made. Patrons become invested in the success of the company because they’re invested in the relationships they’ve fostered with the staff.
And so the cycle begins.

This is the type of emotional correlation that breeds success, but these connections can only occur when employees are valued and supplied the proper modifications at work. With that being said, shame on you, Starbucks.

Obviously, most of the adult world couldn’t function without their java, but that doesn’t give companies like Starbucks a pass on providing disabled employees proper accommodations.

Laura Roberts, a Starbucks employee for seven years, has filed a lawsuit against Starbucks. She claims that the store fired her in retaliation after she repeatedly asked for American Sign Language (ASL) accommodates.

Roberts, who has been Deaf since infancy, requested interpreters during staff and training meetings on various occasions.

She can read, and during her employment relied on a printed schedule for her hours. She also utilized her ability to lip-read in order to serve customers.

After a managerial transition, she was denied a printed schedule, and required to read her schedule from a posted list. Thus, limiting her ability to understand the hours she was required to work... Read The Full Story.

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Deaf EMT Better Than Some Hearing Staff

Deaf EMT 'better than some hearing staff' with ambulance company.


BETHLEHEM, Israel -- Chad Grabousky, Global Medical Transportation Services' first ever Deaf EMT, sits in the back of an ambulance last week at the company's Bethlehem headquarters.

Global Medical Transportation Services Ambulance Capt. Don Burslem didn’t know what to think when the person on the other line told him he was on the phone with a Deaf person.

How could he hire a Deaf emergency medical technician for the Bethlehem-based ambulance company? EMTs need to communicate with their patients, with their partners, with hospital officials over the radio.

But Burslem decided to take a chance on hiring Chad Grabousky, and more than two months later, he’s very glad he did.

“His patients love him, our staff loves him, and he actually does a wonderful job in back of the ambulance, better than some of my hearing staff,” Burslem said.

Grabousky, 22, is glad Burslem took a chance with him. He became a state-certified EMT almost four years ago but has struggled to find paid work. He lives more than an hour north of Bethlehem in Lackawanna County but had little luck finding work up there... Read The Full Story.

Free Illinois School For The Deaf From Audism

WATCH [ASL] - Petition: Kids for American Sign Language - Task Force Team: Free Illinois School for the Deaf from Audism.


JACKSONVILLE, IL -- A letter was sent to Illinois Secretary of Education Beth Purvis, with copies to Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, Department of Human Services Director Kris Smith, Illinois School for the Deaf Advisory Council (ISDAC), Illinois School for the Deaf Alumni Association (ISDAA), Illinois Association of the Deaf (IADD), and several legislators about Illinois School for the Deaf (ISD) issues.


Your support in signing the petition will send a strong message to ISD to stop Cued Speech and Audism make important changes and to listen to Deaf children and parents. Sign up petition HERE.

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Alumni of Illinois School for the Deaf, along with the Deaf community in the State of Illinois, would like to express our concerns with ISD administrators and hearing faculties’ oppression towards Deaf Educators and other employees at ISD. Deaf employees of ISD experienced tremendous Discrimination and Oppression by hearing administrators and faculty over the years.

More than five families with multiple Deaf children left ISD because their parents were concerned about the well-being of their children and their success in education. The environment on ISD campus is not healthy nor is it a positive experience for Deaf students due to obvious discrimination and oppression of Deaf employees... Read The Full Story.

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Deaf Worker Lawsuit BioLife For Discrimination

Deaf worker whose job offer was rescinded wins bias appeal.


Business Insurance - Deaf employees are allowed to use alternate alerting devices to perform their job, says an appeals court that reversed a ruling Monday in favor of a Deaf job applicant who had a job offer rescinded after being offered the position.

Kelly Osborne filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne, Wyoming, against BioLife Plasma Services, a blood collecting facility located in Cheyenne that operates under Deerfield, Illinois-based Baxter Healthcare Corp. Ms. Osborne’s case stated the company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits employers from discriminating against a qualified individual on the basis of disability.

Ms. Osborne, who is Deaf but can read lips, applied for a plasma center technician position that required monitoring the donor area’s plasmapheresis machines that remove blood from a donor, separate the plasma and return the red blood cells to the donor. The machines emit audible alarms when something goes wrong. She was offered a position, but BioLife’s human resources department determined Ms. Osborne was not qualified, and the offer was rescinded, according to court documents.

The District Court decided May 30, 2014, that Ms. Osborne did not identify reasonable ways that she could monitor the donor blood machines using other methods to alert her and granted summary judgment to BioLife...

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5 Stars Hotel With 30% of Deaf Employees

Hotel sets trend by employing highest number of Deaf people in Cape Town, South Africa.


CAPE TOWN -- A new Cape Town hotel has been making headlines for all the right reasons lately by exposing guests to the world and life of Deaf people.

The Newlands based Park Inn hotel has a staff compliment where 30% of the employees are completely or partially Deaf. It's believed the hotel has the highest compliment of Deaf employees in the world.



From the outside it paints the picture of a modest hotel, but guests are pleasantly surprised when they are welcomed in sign language. Employees in many of the departments are Deaf but are not hampered by their disability when dealing with clients.

"Communication with guests is very important for some of us. It's very difficult without hearing aid so we try to do written communication, but for me I have hearing aid and I also train myself to try and speak clearly so to greet them and when guests see my I am Deaf badge, guests are very accommodating and their attitudes gradually change.

Guests at the hotel have praised their work. "My experience is absolutely wonderful and this hotel is a role model of employment equity. They are very good at lip reading," says hotel guest, Cheryl Harper.

Deaf SA has urged the importance of having Deaf community gain access to the working environment. "As you know the South Africa unemployment rate is so high especially in the Deaf community. Access to employment for Deaf people is so important,” says Bruno Druchen from Deaf SA.

The hotel opened its doors in December and has a full time sign language interpreter on site. Cape Town hotel sets trend by employing highest number of Deaf people.

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Deaf Homeless Man In Compassionate Gesture

Deaf homeless man touched by Winnipeggers' generosity.


WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- A Deaf, homeless man working hard to find a job in Winnipeg has been moved by the generosity of Winnipeggers.

Kevin Adams, 38, was randomly handing out his resume in a McPhillips Street parking lot last week, hoping someone could help him find a job.

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That's when he met Jennifer Martens and her husband. The couple took his resume and posted it on Facebook to spread the word. In just hours, it prompted dozens of comments and thousands of shares.

"I am so proud to be a Winnipegger, knowing that people have openly embraced this man and want to help him get back on his feet. It just warms my heart," Jennifer Martens said.

While the Facebook posting resulted in a few job offers, it turns out that Adams' own efforts paid off. He found a job as a painter and starts Tuesday.

Now Adams is composing a letter to thank Winnipeggers for reaching out to him...

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Israel’s First Deaf Flight Attendant

Drama teacher seeking to become Israel’s first Deaf flight attendant.


TEL AVIV, Israel -- The 51-year-old has been trying to persuade El Al to hire him for two years, but the airline has balked due to safety concerns. A 51-year-old man's quest to be Israel's first Hard of Hearing flight attendant fell on deaf hears this week after the Civil Aviation Authority refused to intervene.

Deaf drama teacher Shuki Assouline has been engaged in active talks with El Al for the past two years to convince the airline to hire him as flight attendant. However, the airline determined that it could not employ him as an attendant due to safety concerns.

The CAA declined a request to weigh in on the matter this week, saying that according to regulations a Deaf person could not serve as a pilot, but that it does not maintain any medical guidelines for flight attendants. Instead, the CAA said commercial airlines were free to set their own standards and that Assouline should contact the airlines directly.

"I want to make history and become Israel's first Deaf flight attendant," Assouline said in an interview conducted by email. "For 51 years I have known that I am meant to be an El Al flight attendant."... Read The Full Story.

Deaf Korean Starbucks Barista The Signs

The Korean Starbucks Barista, It’s all in the Signs.

SEOUL, South Korea -- Deaf Korean Starbucks barista, it’s all in the signs. Although a Starbucks branch in Seocho-dong, southern Seoul, was bustling with coffee lovers at around noon on Monday, employees worked in silence.

Most baristas at Starbucks franchises receive orders from the cashiers verbally, with shouts of machiatto, mochachino and latte echoing throughout the store.

But Hwang Jin, a 33-year-old Deaf barista, receives her orders via hand gestures. Employees give a thumbs-up to signal an Americano and make a “G” sign to confirm it’s a grande.


“When making foam with milk, those who are hearing-impaired rely on the sensation in their hand when frothing the milk instead of the sound,” barista instructor Sung Jeong-min said. “They are more sensitive to the vibrations of the milk steamer and produce a smoother taste in the coffee.”

Hwang, who lost her hearing after health complications as a 4-year-old, has worked at the Seoul National University of Education Starbucks branch since November 2011... Read More Here.

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