Deaf Girl, 5, Raped, Left To Struggle For Life

Deaf News: 5-year-old Deaf girl 'brutally' raped, left to struggle for life.

VARANASI, India -- A five-year-old Deaf girl is struggling for life at ICU of SSL hospital of BHU after being raped by a youth. The accused was caught red-handed by the villagers and handed over to Manduadih police after heavy thrashing in the wee hours on Thursday.

According to reports, Sanjay (24), a native of Ghazipur who lives near Phulwaria gate, worked as a labourer. He first struck at Patelbasti of Chandpur area and tried to lift a minor girl, sleeping with her mother outside their residence, but fortunately, the girl woke up and started crying following which other family members also came out of the house. They chased Sanjay, but he managed to escape.

After few minutes, he raided Natbasi in the neighbouring locality where he kidnapped the physically challenged minor girl, who was also sleeping with mother outside their hut. As the Deaf girl could not raise alarm, Sanjay took her to a neighbouring field and raped the minor.

In the meantime, the mother of the hapless girl woke up and raised an alarm. On hearing this, people of the locality came out of their houses and started searching the girl. On seeing the people entering the field, Sanjay tried to escape leaving the girl in a pool of blood. The people of this locality chased him while residents of Patelbasti also reached from the opposite side after which Sanjay was caught and beaten brutally.

After this information, police also reached there and somehow rescued Sanjay from the angry mob. The girl was immediately rushed to SPG divisional hospital where the doctors referred her to SSL hospital of BHU in view of sharp deterioration in the health condition of the girl.

SSP Nitin Tiwari reached the hospital to see the condition of girl and assured to extend financial support to her family for the proper treatment of rape survivor. He said that two cases, including raping the minor after kidnapping and bid to kidnap another minor, had been lodged against Sanjay, who was sent to jail.

SOURCE - The Times of India

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Deaf and Dying at the Ottawa Hospital

Deaf and dying: How a volunteer team brings palliative care comfort through communication in the capital of Canada.

OTTAWA -- The first experience Monica Elaine Campbell had with palliative care was helping a woman who had lost her ability to speak because of throat cancer.

Campbell, profoundly Deaf since birth, is an excellent lip reader and staff at an Ottawa Hospital asked if she could interpret the dying woman’s words. The woman had been communicating with paper and pen, but now was too weak even to do that.

“I was very hesitant. Then I thought, well, the least I could do is give it a try,” said Campbell, who is able to speak despite never having heard a word herself. “I put my hand on her right arm and said, ‘I’ve never done this before. I will try my best.”

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Campbell leaned close as the woman mouthed her words. Campbell repeated it back and had the woman nod yes if she had understood correctly. She spent five hours with the woman, relaying messages between her and her family and the medical team. She was able to interpret about 85 per cent of what the woman told her.

“I came away a different person,” Campbell said. “I was very touched by the experience.”

The dying woman had not been Deaf, but the experience got Campbell thinking about the communication needs of people like herself: the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. A few years later, Campbell was asked to help a Deaf friend who was about to receive bad news about her cancer diagnosis.

“I didn’t know much about palliative care, but she was struggling with her terminal illness,” Campbell said. “I thought, my goodness, what if that was me? I thought, I should talk to my Deaf friends about death and dying and what our experiences have been.”

Those conversations led Campbell and her friend, sign language interpreter Christine Wilson, to start up the Ottawa Deaf Palliative Care Team, a group of volunteers that provide end-of-life care for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and their families. In 1999, she enrolled in palliative care courses at Algonquin College with two Deaf colleagues (the Deaf use a capital D to refer to the sub-culture of people who communicate with sign language; “Hard of Hearing” are those who have lost some or most of the hearing but can still use some speech, sometimes augmented with sign language; the “Deafened” or “Oral Deaf” have lost some or all of their hearing, but either learned to speak before their deafness or, like Campbell, learned to speak despite it... Read More at Ottawa Citizen.

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Deaf Dog Rescued By Good Samaritan

A stray dog was hit by a car and left to die on a Texas road but saved by good samaritan.

BOERNE, TX -- Vet Ranch shares a very touching an inspiring story about Gabe the Deaf dog is a pit bull-dalmatian mix - was the victim of a hit and run. Thankfully a good samaritan stopped to help. Thank you to his foster and adoptive famililes for loving him so well.

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If you are interested in helping with animals in the future, please visit http://vetranch.org to learn more about what we do and to donate if you would like.

Dr. Matt Carriker, a veterinarian licensed in Texas founded Vet Ranch Inc., a 501(c)(3), tax exempt non-profit organization. There is no shortage of pets in need, so every donation means more lives we can positively change. If you are not able to donate, please enjoy the videos and share if you like them.

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'DWTS' Contestant Nyle DiMarco Hospitalized

'Dancing with the Stars' contestant Nyle DiMarco goes to hospital, gets stitches after rehearsal mishap.

LOS ANGELES -- Dancing With the Stars season 22 contestant Nyle DiMarco had to get stitches above his eye after a he was hit in the face during a rehearsal.

Video shows Nyle and his partner Peta Murgatroyd beginning to dance when she whirled around and accidentally plopped him in the face with her elbow.

The Deaf model takes the hit in stride, smiling while touching his eye.

Things had been going so much better for Peta, who marveled at the Deaf model when he took off his shirt to rehearse with her.

"Yes!" the dance pro said about him disrobing. "I'm totally fine with this."

Moments later, things were a bit bloodier.

"Oh, my God," Maksim Chmerkovskiy's fiance said as her dance partner ran to look at the wound in the mirror. "Are you okay? I'm so sorry. I have never hit anyone that badly in my whole life."

Nyle said, "I think I might need stitches."

Later, cameras showed Nyle outside of the hospital, with his eyebrow stitched together.

Via American Sign Language and through an interpreter, Nyle said, "So I just left the hospital. I had to get four stitches on my left eyebrow. I definitely realized today that dancing is definitely a full-contact sport and I like it!"

Hopefully the dance duo will have better luck on the dance floor. Peta knows a thing or two about dominating the dance floor, as she took home the Mirrorball Trophy with Donald Driver in season 14.

Nyle, too, knows about winning, as he won "America's Next Top Model" in it's 22nd cycle.

"It truly did take a toll on me mentally," he told Us Weekly after winning. "I even cringe when I watch myself on ANTM being all alone and sometimes brainwashed from 'only talking to myself.'"

He did find a silver lining in being Deaf during his ANTM stint.

"The only positive thing out of it is that I wasn't able to hear all the drama!" he said. "I'm relieved. Also, with the lack of communication, It has helped me to stay focused and think about how I can improve myself as a model."

Yeah, he's real. @NyleDiMarco feels the music like no other! https://t.co/3Bzd4INkoX

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NAD and Deaf Parents Sues Tennessee Hospital

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JOHNSON CITY, TN -- ABC NEWS: A Deaf couple says a Tennessee hospital discriminated against them by failing to provide a qualified sign language interpreter while their 21-year-old daughter was dying of cancer.

Chris and Donna Cantrell's federal lawsuit against Mountain States Health Alliance in Johnson City was filed Wednesday by Disability Rights Tennessee and the National Association of the Deaf.

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The organizations say the Johnson City Medical Center refused to provide qualified sign language interpreters to allow the couple from Wise, Virginia, to participate in their daughter's care during the six months before Sydnei Cantrell died on May 19.

"(The couple) watched their daughter suffer from serious health conditions ... without ever receiving a full explanation of what was happening to their daughter," the lawsuit said. "(Donna) Cantrell saw her daughter burst into tears but had no idea why she was crying. Because her daughter was too upset to explain, (she) did not learn that her daughter was dying until much later."

The hospital provided a person to facilitate communications on fewer than five occasions, but the person was not qualified to act as an interpreter and didn't sign clearly enough, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit asks a judge to order Mountain States to develop a nondiscrimination policy requiring the provision of qualified sign language interpreters, and to train medical staff on compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit also asks for unspecified compensatory damages and attorneys' fees.

Mountain States spokeswoman Teresa Hicks declined to comment, citing patient confidentiality requirements.

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Missouri Deaf Kids To Hospital As Bus Overturns

Authorities say as many as 20 children are being taken to a hospital after a charter bus carrying students from the Missouri School for the Deaf overturned in eastern Missouri.

DANVILLE, Missouri -- A charter bus carrying students from the Missouri School for the Deaf overturned along an interstate in eastern Missouri on Friday, sending 15 children and three adults to a hospital but causing no life-threatening injuries, authorities said.

The accident happened around 1:30 p.m. as the eastbound bus was exiting Interstate 70 near Danville, about 75 miles west of St. Louis.

The children, who were between ages 10 and 18, were treated in the emergency room at University Hospital in Columbia, along with the bus driver and two chaperones, hospitals spokeswoman Mary Jenkins said. She said the adults' injuries also appeared not to be life-threatening.

Department of Elementary and Secondary Education spokeswoman Sarah Potter said initial reports from the hospital indicated the children had "minor injuries bumps and bruises, that sort of thing."

The superintendent of the Fulton school went to the hospital to help translate for the children. Jenkins said the hospital also brought in eight sign-language interpreters to help the children communicate.

The state-run School for the Deaf has residential and day programs for children in first through 12th grades. The bus was taking the children from the central Missouri campus to five drop-off points in St. Charles, St. Louis, Arnold, Sikeston and Cape Girardeau, Potter said... Read The Full Story.

Medical Services - Understanding Deaf Culture

WATCH: Medical Services Interpretation: Understanding Deaf Culture.

Participants will learn how to provide culturally sensitive and competent mental health services to members of the Deaf community through gaining a better understanding of the culture and its specific needs.

Participants will also gain a better understanding of sign language and how this can affect the process of communication in mental health treatment.

Participants will learn how Americans with Disabilities Act applies to working with Deaf individuals in mental health settings as well as how to work more effectively with interpreter in these settings.

Objectives: The cultural aspects of the Deaf community that are necessary to understand in order to effectively provide mental health counseling and to make proper diagnoses, Information regarding commonly held myths about the Deaf community, How ADA applies to this population, How to effectively communicate in the therapeutic process using a sign language interpreters,

Elijah Buchholz, LPC, is the Director of Deaf Services for the Missouri Department of Mental Health. For the past six years, Buchholz has provided mental health and substance abuse services to the Deaf community. He has conducted numerous trainings for both mental health clinicians and interpreters across Missouri and Kansas.

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Deaf Woman Sues New Hampshire Hospital

New Hampshire Hospital has agreed to a settlement over allegations that it failed to provide appropriate aid and services under the ADA.

PETERBOROUGH, New Hampshire -- The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that Monadnock Community Hospital has agreed to a $5,000 settlement with a Deaf woman who received medical care at the hospital in 2010, according to a statement from justice department officials.

The woman, Amy Dauphinais, communicates primarily through sign language, and alleges hospital officials failed to provide her with auxiliary aids during her stay there, which resulted in her being unable to communicate with hospital personnel, and instead relied on her minor daughter to interpret for her, according to the statement.

Although the hospital agreed to pay Dauphinais $5,000, it did so without admitting liability in the incident, justice department officials said.

In a statement, hospital officials said there was "a strong difference of opinion on the facts of the patient visit that was the basis of the claim," and that "there was never any question of any adverse effect on the quality of care provided to any patient and MCH cooperated throughout the case... Read The Full Story.

ADA Effective Communication - Title III in ASL

ADA Effective Communication using Title III and ASL from the Disability and Communication Access Board.

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- Communication Access Provisions Title III of the Americans with Disability Act for Public Accommodations: https://hawaii.gov/health/dcab/docs/fact_sheets/ca_pa.pdf

Lack of effective communication. ADA effective communication systems tool in the ongoing battle against disability discrimination. In a recent in-depth article assessing the impact of the ADA in Hawaii. https://dredf.org/international/paper_y-g.html.

Legal Resources - Disability Rights: The ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act): Questions and Answers, visit https://davislevin.com/facts_adaqa2.html for more information.