With CRISPR technology, Deaf people as well as their culture and language like some specific animals might no longer be on Earth. Then, they discussed about the contributions Deaf people gave to this world and what would they would do to prevent the extinction of Deaf people.On the surface, CRISPR sound like a promising medical solution to the problems surrounding hearing loss or total deafness.
This important work calls out ‘audio supremacy’ and asks us to acknowledge the Deaf protagonist’s defiant indignation at their treatment by the hearing world.
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Directed, Filmed & Edited by Adam Docker
Written and Spoken by Raymond Antrobus
Performed by Vilma Jackson
Producer & Colourist Ces Terranova
Sound & Music Design Enos Desjardins
Love is not Deaf - Our Sign Language Romance - BBC News.
Habib and Carole, a Deaf couple from Lebanon, say they hope their children will be born hearing so they don't have to face the challenges they did. They say society has a long way to go to make people with disabilities feel like equals.
BBC Arabic’s Joelle Naayem followed the couple as they prepared for their wedding.
Deaf couple say squabble with Delta over lack of communication at Michigan airport.
DETROIT, Michigan -- A Deaf California couple is lashing out at Delta Air Lines, claiming one of its agents at Detroit Metro Airport refused to communicate with them in writing and instead of helping them rolled her eyes at them.
The couple said they just wanted to know if they could be seated together. Turned out, the plane was full, but the couple still had questions.
Confusion followed. Police were called. The passengers were asked to leave.
By Monday morning, the airport incident had gone viral on social media as the couple ended up being denied boarding. They wound up at an airport hotel - hurt, confused and angry.
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"Whew. This is raw. I see this kind of stuff happen to many Deaf, Deaf-Blind, and Deaf-Disabled people in the news. I've always listened to those stories with disbelief. ... Even though I have seen this many times, it was a huge shock when it happened to us ... The feeling of being oppressed is very traumatic," airline passenger Melissa Elmira Yingst said in a Facebook video, where she used sign language to explain what happened.
The 40-year-old Yingst, who is a TV personality in California for Tru Biz and a social activist, also took to Twitter.
"Wow. Am at @Delta airlines in Detroit. Front desk attendant Felixia refuses to communicate with us in writing and even threw away the paper she wrote on with us," Yingst tweeted.
Delta Air Lines tweeted back.
"Hi Melissa, I am so sorry to hear this. Please provide me with your confirmation number, travel dates and city pairs using the link below for further assistance. *TMU"
According to Delta, the two passengers knew in advance they weren't seated together as they had purchased their tickets separately. The airline said that the boarding gate agent at issue accommodated the two passengers in letting them know that the plane was full, and that she would work with the flight attendants to see whether someone would give up a seat so they could sit together.
Delta also said the couple was ultimately refunded their tickets and denied boarding because one of the passengers aggressively went behind the counter - which isn't permitted - and pushed the agent to get to a trash can to retrieve a note.
“Delta is in contact with two customers who reported having difficulty communicating with a gate agent prior to their flight. We are reviewing the situation with our Detroit team and will work with these customers to better understand what transpired. As always, we take situations like these seriously and we are using this as an opportunity to learn and improve” Delta Air Lines spokesman Michael Thomas said in a statement late Monday.
Meanwhile, the couple is reeling.
"This has been very traumatizing for us and we right now are currently collecting resources to figure out the best way to remedy this situation," Yingst wrote to the Free Press in an email Monday. "We booked a different flight out of Detroit with a different airline. Currently on our way to LA. Just looking forward to a hot shower tonight!"
The incident happened about 8 p.m. Sunday as Yingst and her partner, Socorro Garcia, 34, were heading back to Los Angeles after attending a 'creating-change' conference in Detroit.
According to Yingst and Garcia, who gave a detailed account of the incident on Facebook, here is what they say happened:
During check-in, a Delta agent explained to them that once they got to the departure gate, they would be given seats together.
So the couple went to departure gate A64, where, they say, they encountered an unhelpful agent named "Felicia."
The couple communicated to the agent their request to sit together through an iPhone, but the agent "kept talking to us without writing anything down."
According to Garcia, Yingst started questioning why they couldn't sit together, but the "gate agent rolled her eyes at us." After a few moments, the agent "finally wrote on a piece of paper" that the flight was full and that the couple couldn't sit together.
Garcia wanted to continue communicating and tried to write on the agent's note, but said "instead of giving us the paper we asked for, (the agent) crumbled it in front of us and threw it in the trash."
Yingst then pulled out her notepad and started documenting the incident. She said she asked the agent for her name, but that the woman refused. So she looked at her badge, wrote down "Felicia" and kept pressing the agent to work with them on paper.
Meanwhile, Garcia ventured to the trash can to retrieve the agent's note, but was pushed away by the agent.
That's when Yingst started videotaping the incident. So did the agent, who ultimately called the police and accused Garcia of assaulting her.
In the video taken by Yingst, the agent is heard telling Garcia: “You can’t come back here.” Then someone says, "You want me to call the police?" The agent says 'Yes,' waves her hand at Garcia and says, "No more. No more talking."
The couple said that when police arrived, they told them that nothing could be done about the seating arrangement and asked them to leave. They advised the couple to book another flight back to Los Angeles, they said, so they got a hotel near the airport and vented on social media.
"This really isn't about us not being able to sit together but how they handled communication and refused to provide us access to the needs we asked for," Yingst wrote.
Garcia added: "Loss for words. What did we do wrong?"
UPDATE: A Deaf couple who was kicked off a Delta Air Lines flight following a dispute with a boarding agent over seating assignments has threatened a lawsuit against the airliner unless these conditions are met... Read more: Deaf couple threatens to sue Delta Air Lines over agent's behavior.
Deaf Chinese son has been chained and locked up in a stone house for decade by his own mother.
DENGFENG, China -- 'I had no choice': Mum admits locking up Deaf son for decade as police discover man in chains, mum Yue Rong said her son Wang Zhiqiang, now 41, was born unable to hear or speak and as the years went on, his mental disorders got worse.
Wang Zhiqiang, now 41, was born unable to hear or speak, his mum Yue Rong, 77, revealed.
But as a child he still showed signs of intellect, so his family sent him to a special needs boarding school.
Only his time there proved to be a traumatic experience after he was severely bullied.
As a result Wang Zhiqiang, who lives in Xuanhua in Dengfeng City in Henan, China, developed psychological issues.
And as his poverty-stricken family could not afford to seek help and treatment Zhiqiang's mental disorders got worse.
His mother said: "He wasn't able to go to school any more, and his condition worsened while staying at home.
"It reached a point where he was attacking other villagers."
Yue explained when her husband passed away she found it difficult to cope which is why she resorted to chaining up her son.
She added: "When his father was still alive, he was able to take care of him, but when his dad passed away 12 years ago, I couldn't handle him on my own."
"I had no choice but to chain him up and lock him in the room. It's been more than 10 years."
Zhiqiang's sister, Wang Shufen, cries every time she sees her brother in the animal-like state.
Footage of their most recent meeting shows her sobbing as she inspects the marks on her brother's arms made by the wrought-iron shackles.
Now in her 50s, Shufen said: "I wish it were me chained up and that my brother were free instead.
"You never saw the times, while he was still lucid, when he begged my family to let him out."
Woman kept Deaf sister locked in closet for seven years while stealing benefits.
CORUNNA, Michigan -- Candy Lawson, 46, was gave her adoptive sister Diana Churchill little food, water or clothing during her seven-year ordeal in the tiny 4ft by 8ft space. She was freed in 2015 when she was discovered at the house in Corunna, by construction worker, Robert Lamar, while he carried out works on the house.
Lawson was meant to be caring for her sister following their mother’s death 10 years ago, but instead subjected her to years of abuse. The prosecutor said: ‘I think the easy answer for us is we think the motive was the benefits she was getting, the social security money that she was getting.
‘It’s too bad that somebody can be on the radar with the SOS Administration that there is no protocol in place for actual face-to-face follow up, to figure out whether or not this person is alive and well, and actually getting the benefit of their funds.
‘In this case, obviously the system let this woman down.’
Diana’s brother, who had the same cognitive and physical impairments as her, died at the age of 33 weighing just 60lbs.
Police are now investigating whether she was also responsible for his death but no charges have been brought.
Lawson claimed that the closet was a room and the reason she locked her in was to prevent her from walking off in the night.
She also said that she hadn’t deprived her of food and was free to walk around the house.
However she was malnourished and so dirty that her skin reacted badly when nurses used soap to try and clean her.
Diana is now being cared for by the state and is doing much better according to Wnem.
Speaking about the case, Mr Lamar who found her said: ‘Horrible really. It was disgusting how she left her sister. Someone that doesn’t care about another human’s life.’ She will be sentenced on October 27.
Short Documentary Film "The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam" What is life like for Women living under Sharia Law? Historical of Sharia Law within violence against Women in Middle East and North Africa.
Warning: Some viewers may find this video distressing. This video contains violence and graphic content may disturbing. "The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam" might contain content that is not suitable for all ages. The features images that may shock or sensitive audiences.
This post is purpose for education and awareness of violent against women. It is an utter disgrace that more people the world over - including and especially human rights and women's organizations are not speaking out loudly against the hideous, violent treatment of women that including Deaf and Hard of Hearing within Islam as well.
This abuse has been going on for centuries, and little has changed over the past decades since the non-Muslim world began to take notice of Islam. In fact, Muslim apologists including non-Muslim defenders are very vocal in denying that women are abused and oppressed within Islam, an assertion that is patently false and mendacious.
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All of the apologies and apologetics in the world will not make these facts of violence against women go away, and day in and day out women and girls are treated abysmally in the Muslim world, simply because of their female gender and because the wanton abuse of women is endorsed by the Islamic holy book, the Quran/Koran, as well as various commentaries thereon, such as the Hadiths, to the evident exultation of misogynists worldwide.
The silence of the non-Muslim world in not criticizing Islam and its proponents especially in regard to the vicious, widespread and ongoing oppression and abuse of women and girls is deafening - and shameful.
Please read the booklet linked hereto by Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler, and pass it along to all those who love life and justice. We need many more voices like these hard-working individuals who are risking their necks to expose the harsh realities behind Islam.
The bottom line is that millions of women and girls are suffering every day within Islam, and not doing anything about constitutes a tacit endorsement of such suffering.
The booklet that you are about to read details some of the principal ways in which women suffer inthe Islamic world - often with religious and cultural sanction. Many of these crimes against women,
such as wife-beating, are ordained by the Qur'an itself; others, such as female genital mutilation and honor killing, are praised by Islamic clerics and hallowed by Islamic culture. That feminists in the West remain silent about this deeply ingrained and institutionalized mistreatment of women, and even ally with groups that have devoted themselves to the spread of Islamic law that justifies this mistreatment, is one of the unconscionable scandals of our time.
This article is a segment of a series being run as part of our nation-wide campus effort, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which will be held on 200 university and college campuses on October 22-26. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a national effort to focus on all the victims of Islamo-Fascist Jihad - as well as to counter the lies of the academic Left, which seeks to deny the evil, and even the very existence, of our enemy in this terror war. In this way, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week hopes to educate American students and to enable them to rally to defend their country.
In terms of the this booklet of our subject today, its cover is a still photograph that epitomizes Islamic oppression of women, and it has come to also epitomize the Western feminist non-response to it. The picture comes from a Dutch film called De Steen (The Stone), directed by Mahnaz Tamizi, and features the actress Smadar Monsinos. The Stone dramatizes the barbaric treatment of women in Islamic countries. It accurately depicts the reality of Islamic Sharia law regarding adultery: when a couple is caught in adultery, the man is jailed while the woman is stoned to death.
It is a telling indication of the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the Left that it has fastened upon our use of this picture to try to discredit Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, since the photo does not depict an actual event - as if women weren't being stoned to death under Sharia law in Iran and some other Muslim countries today. In reality, eight women are currently in prison in Iran awaiting death by stoning for the crime of adultery. A mother was sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran for adultery just last week. It is typical of the Left to try to cast opprobrium not upon those responsible for these harsh realities, but upon us who are trying to draw attention to them in the name of human rights.
It may have seemed inconceivable that feminists and their allies would defend those who bury women in the earth and kill them by throwing large stones at them, but that is the ultimate thrust of the Left's outcry against our use of this picture and against Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week in general. Such are the ironies of our troubled age.
In this booklet are realities that should be of paramount concern not just for feminists in the West and their allies on the Left, but of all those who are concerned with the universality of human rights and the dignity of every human being.
Final note from Acharya: I don't usually engage in the politics of "right v. left," but I have to say that, in the case of Islam, the lefty liberals have driven me and many others straight into the Neocon camp. For those who are bothered by the "staged stoning" of the pic above, please see this disturbing video of a real stoning - albeit of men, who likewise suffer horribly under the sadistic fascism called Islam.
The rest of the images here are unfortunately quite real, including the blood pool from a victim of female genital mutilation, the hanging of an Iranian woman from a crane, and the Iranian victim of a severe beating because she was not properly covered up to post here some of the worst images, including that of the genital area of a victim of female genital mutilation.
This sounds familiar within Moses laws and Jehovah's Witnesses holy book, the Quran/Koran, as well as various thereon. It is so sadistic quotes Islamic bible, they really are fearful for the future of humanity when Muslim Brotherhood allow such old barbaric practices to continue. This manslaughter must be stopped and for crimes of violence against women.
The Violent Oppression of Women By Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler from Front Page Magazine Friday, October 05, 2007.
Police did not inform courts that defendants appearing for a video arraignment were Deaf, so the individuals did not understand what was happening, according to the review.
And police failed to provide qualified sign-language translators or other services to defendants, victims, and witnesses, according to the review.
DOJ said it was seeking to remedy the problems cooperatively through a consent decree with the department.
"In the event that we are unable to reach such a resolution, the Attorney General may initiate a lawsuit pursuant to the [Americans with Disabilities Act]," the letter states.
The Police Department issued a statement Friday evening saying it would work with DOJ to fix any problems.
"While the finding and conclusion regarding the complaint are sobering, we appreciate the DOJ's work and their input regarding the matter," the Police Department said.
"We are using this as an opportunity to address a legitimate concern and make necessary improvements. The department's goal is to move beyond remedial measures with a commitment to making this department a model for others in adhering to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act."
The Police Department said it would collaborate with the city's Office of the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and with the Mayor's Commission on People with Disabilities.
The Justice Department review was prompted by a complaint from a man who had been arrested, and that led to four other people who alleged discrimination by police.
According to the original complaint:
In 2013, a 23-year-old man who was Deaf was arrested in court after he threw a bracelet hitting two people during a sentencing hearing for his brother.
He was handcuffed behind his back, making him unable to use sign language. While in police custody, a radio room staffer was identified as having some sign language ability, but the man could not understand what was being communicated.
The man asked for a qualified interpreter, but police ended their attempt to communicate and placed him in detention for 16 hours.
During his video arraignment the next morning, the judge was not told he was Deaf and the video was not captioned.
Two months later, police arrested him mistakenly for failing to appear in court. His hearing had actually been scheduled for a later date.
He was again handcuffed behind his back, but after his mother intervened, the officers cuffed him in the front. When he explained the hearing had been rescheduled, the officers asked for documentation but would not allow him to search for it.
After he was detained and released, he asked for a telecommunication system for the deaf, but the one police provided him did not work.
Deaf woman loses High Court bid to serve on jury in Australia, claims “a smack in the face” for the Deaf community.
BRISBANE, AU -- The Independent: The High Court in Australia has ruled to deny a woman the chance to become the country’s first Deaf jury member, a decision she later described as “a smack in the face” for the Deaf community.
In 2012, a registrar told Gaye Lyons from Queensland she should be excused from jury duty as a sign language interpreter could not be sworn into the conference room, according to state law.
The 69-year-old can lip read but needs an interpreter to communicate, and decided to take her case against the Queensland government to the High Court.
The court decided to uphold state law and said the presence of an interpreter in a deliberation room would cause “an incurable irregularity” which could affect the outcome of a case, resulting in the dismissal of Ms Lyons’ appeal.
Queensland attorney general Yvette D’Ath said the confidentiality of jury deliberations and the right to a fair trial were “among the most fundamental tenets of Australia’s justice system”, according to AP Australia.
"We're the same as everybody else, we're human, we have kids, we go to work, we drive cars, we pay mortgages - I was just fuming because I could not have equal access to this," Ms Lyons told reporters outside court.
"Why should the powers that be decide what's right for me, why should they decide what I can and can't do? It just made me livid, I was seething about the whole thing.”
Ms Lyons has repeatedly cited her detailed interest in the law and said jury duty was “something I really wanted to take part in”.
"After five years of struggle, just fighting for access for the Australian Deaf community, it felt like a slap in the face.”
"For them [the High Court] to say that interpreters could not relay information accurately, that was the living end, that was the last straw for me. Deaf people should not be treated differently. The High Court does not see that,” she added.
In 2011, a Deaf woman served on an inquest jury in the United Kingdom after several legal challenges found Deaf people can fully comprehend courtroom discourse and jury deliberations through interpreters.
Exemptions for Deaf people carrying out jury service in criminal trials were removed in Ireland and the UK after legal challenges during the 2000s. In the United States, they have been serving on juries since 1979.
New Zealand is another country where sign language interpreters are employed by courts to help Deaf jurors contribute to trials.
WATCH [CC] - A movement on and off the grid, founded by Angela Maria Nardolillo to provide sustainable resources and empowerment for groups within a larger culture.
PORT-AU-PRINCE -- A former Gallaudet University student brings relief to Deaf Haitian communities, Angela Maria Nardolillo is the interactive creative/art director & humanitarian, what it means to be Deaf in one part of the world, has a completely different meaning elsewhere and these stories do not just happen in Haiti, but after witnessing the abuse, violence and the struggles of those Deaf, Blind...etc with limited resources in various parts of the world, is how Angela Maria got there the city of Port-Au-Prince.
This documentary is based off of actual events from #offthegridHAITI missions in an effort to shine light on the realities, provide access to tangible solutions, and to pay tribute to the precious lives lost along the way.
Official 'Off The Grid HAITI' Trailer.
The 'Off The Grid HAITI' documentary premiere released on June 30th, 2016.
Official 'Off The Grid HAITI' Documentary (Episode 1)
Official 'Off The Grid HAITI' Documentary (Episode 2)
Deaf News: Deaf ex-employee’s court case puts bosses on notice for behaving badly in Mississauga, Canada.
TORONTO, ON -- The Canadian Press: A long-time employee tormented by her employer and unceremoniously dumped after she went Deaf had her damages award more than doubled to $246,000 by Ontario’s top court on Thursday.
In its decision, the Appeal Court ruled the egregious nature of the company’s “heartless” misconduct warranted significantly higher damages for Vicky Strudwick.
“In the lead-up to Ms. Strudwick’s termination, she was belittled, isolated, humiliated and made to suffer the effects of her disability to the greatest extent possible,” the Appeal Court said.
“This conduct was deliberate, malicious and designed to force Ms. Strudwick to quit a job she had held for almost 16 years.”
Court documents show that Strudwick worked for Applied Consumer and Clinical Evaluations, a family-run business based in Mississauga, Ont., that recruits people to participate in focus groups. She began by doing data entry, but later instructed recruiting staff, earning $12.85 an hour.
In October 2010, she went completely Deaf - possibly because of a virus.
Court records show that Andrew Hoffman, the general manager, and a supervisor, Liz Camilleri, then began a concerted campaign of abuse against Strudwick aimed at forcing her to quit.
They not only denied her any accommodation for her disability, but actually took steps to make her life even more difficult, the court said.
In May 2011, Hoffman fired her, allegedly for pulling a “stunt” at a company event, prompting Strudwick, then 56, to sue for wrongful dismissal and abuse.
Applied Consumer never delivered a statement of defence and was noted in default.
The Appeal Court affirmed the costs award, but found Strudwick deserved much more by way of damages given the “cruel” treatment to which her bosses had subjected her.
Examples included giving her instructions while preventing her from lip reading, then calling her stupid. They refused to let her turn her desk around so that she could see people as they approached.
“In the immediate lead-up to her dismissal, Ms. Strudwick was confronted in front of an estimated 13 other employees, yelled at and called a ‘goddamned fool’,” the Appeal Court stated.
Hoffman, who would later himself be fired, gave her a termination letter and a cheque for three months’ pay. When she refused to sign a release, he took the cheque back and had her marched out of the building in front of her co-workers.
Applied Consumer, which claims to foster an environment of “empowerment, engagement, fairness and responsibility,” then claimed she had been fired for insubordination and wilful misconduct - a tactic that delayed her access to employment insurance.
On appeal, Strudwick argued for more than $1 million, but the court said its hands were tied by her initial statement of claim, which sought $240,000 plus an amount for loss of benefits.
The Appeal Court said she deserved her full claim for damages in light of the “malicious and heartless” treatment meted out to her. It also awarded another $20,000 in costs for the appeal.
Son James was mercilessly picked on in the playground because he has a hearing impairment at mainstreaming school.
DUNDEE, UK -- The Sunday Post: Chris said teachers did little to tackle the problem when James was subjected to name-calling by other pupils.
Eventually, Chris and wife Samantha were forced to take the step of removing him from the school due to the “lack of understanding from teachers”.
“People are ignorant – that’s not going to change,” said the former striker, who has tried to teach his son how to deal with the name-calling.
He said: “It is wrong for children to tease and bully but it happens through school and as much as we’d like it to, it will probably never be eradicated.
“I prepare James for this. What I couldn’t understand was the lack of understanding from his teachers at his previous school.
“They did not know how to treat him because of his hearing aids.”
Following abuse at the hands of other children, Chris was forced to carefully explain to James that he was happy with him just the way he his.
“You find out who your friends are,” is the difficult advice he gave him.“Kids have to work things out for themselves,” he added.
Since placing James in another school, he has flourished and is now an accomplished hockey player, much to his dad’s delight.
Chris said: “Going to his new school totally transformed him as a person.
“He was depressed and lacked self-belief and it was because of the common sense and logical understanding of the teachers at his new school that he began to build his confidence.”
The now 14-year-old’s early life was beset by problems.
James was born prematurely at 28 weeks in September
2001 at The Queen Mother’s Hospital in Glasgow, weighing just 3lb.
He was so tiny, Chris could hold him in the palm of his hand.
After weeks of specialist care, he was eventually allowed to go home.
However, Samantha rushed James to the former Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow 10 days later when he fell seriously ill with a respiratory virus.
He was choking and having terrifying episodes where he would stop breathing.
She took him to hospital but while in the waiting room he stopped breathing again.
He was rushed to a side room where doctors resuscitated him. Medics said he could have died if he hadn’t got there when he did.
Chris, 43, said: “My wife had this feeling and she turned round and James was going blue.
“They rushed him into the hospital and he had gone. They got him back.
“He was in a long time. They resuscitated him. He was a tiny baby. It was the most worrying thing that has ever happened.
“Had we lived any further away we might not have got there in time. Another minute and he might not have been here. We were told that.”
Doctors said James was suffering from RSV – a common virus with cold-like symptoms.
Healthy children tend to shrug it off, but it can be life-threatening for premature babies.
The star was in Spain at the time preparing for a crucial UEFA Cup tie with Valencia when Samantha called to say James was fighting for his life.
He immediately tried to get a flight home, but couldn’t.
In the end he chose not to go to the match but instead stayed at the hotel where Samantha could call to give him updates.
He flew home early next day and went to the intensive care ward where he and Samantha kept a bedside vigil.
The footballer said it was the most worrying time of his life.
“James was on life support. It was touch-and-go,” he revealed.
“You hope, you sit and pray and think about things.
Deaf News: Exclusive interview with Deaf teachers of Iowa School For The Deaf face firing: NBC report.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA -- Teachers with a combined 40 years’ experience have been suspended and could be fired at the Iowa School for the Deaf. The teachers are shocked and question the motive and timing of the personnel action.
Despite a bad report card on their teaching techniques, Tina Murdoch and Tricia Tighe say they never failed their Deaf students.
"Both of us put our heart and our soul into that school. We both were there on Sunday nights," said Murdoch. Though Iowa School for the Deaf Renewed their contracts last summer, both teachers received termination notices about four months later.
Tighe said, 'I'm really upset. They gave me a contract I don't know why they're firing me.”
Tighe taught four special education students and Murdoch had a class of Deaf fifth graders both teachers received similar letters recommending termination.
The letters contain a laundry list of at least two dozen reasons why administrators feel the teachers have short comings in the classroom; among the reasons school administrators cited failure to use methods to monitor student learning, failure to demonstrate competence in content and failure to enhance academic performance.
"After 25 years they're saying I'm not meeting teaching standards that I was meeting before. It does not make any sense," said Murdoch.
Tighe’s mid semester suspension also caused elementary aged special education students to be moved into the high school. That concerns the 7-year-old’s grandmother Kitty Eisenhauer.
"She has a new teacher, a new building a new environment and she's in the with high schoolers, I don't really care for that," said Eisenhauer.
A regents spokesman tells Six On Your Side the second grade class is in the high school, but they’re in their own room with no high school students except for a well supervised 45 minute period.
They are constantly supervised and safety is of primary concern, but Kitty says moving class after removing the teacher affects a special needs seven year old. She said, "Yes I have questions about why. Were there problems because I felt they were both great teachers."
The regents who oversee Iowa School for the Deaf won't comment on personnel matters. But two teachers can't suspend their feelings and say the recommend firings are a bad sign for the Deaf students they taught.
As a result, the average person has no idea what being Deaf involves, and therefore life can get downright weird for anyone who can't hear like the rest of you. Well, I'm a sign language interpreter and an American Sign Language (ASL) graduate, and I'll try to give you a glimpse of how strange things can get...
#1. Society Has Traditionally Treated Deaf People Like Garbage.
For much of our history, society just didn't know what to do with Deaf people. In the B.C. era, the law of the Talmud denied Deaf people the right to own land, while St. Augustine in the early A.D.s made deafness a straight-up sin. It wasn't until the 1960s that interpreting for Deaf people was even a profession.
Before then, Deaf people relied on the help of family, teachers of Deaf people (like Helen Keller's Deaf-Blind teacher Anne Sullivan), and the occasional clergyman that learned some signs. If you didn't live in an area with a thriving Deaf community, you might as well be cut off from the world entirely.
Educators didn't have a problem with Deaf people until the 1880 Conference of Milan. A bunch of hearing people and one token Deaf guy got together in Italy to figure out just how Deaf people ought to be educated. You can sum up their conclusion as "Fuck sign language, just try real hard to speak." Even today, many Deaf people remember having their hands tied and wrists slapped to stop them from trying to sign.
He spent his life pushing legislation that would force Deaf people to undergo surgery to make sure they couldn't have children together and make a "Deaf Race." Fearing this day, Bell pushed for the abolition of sign language because it brought Deaf people together. (Oddly enough, Bell's own mother and wife were Deaf. So yeah, probably some awkward holidays for that family.)
This should help explain why Deaf people are wary of anyone who claims to be able to "fix" them. Big-D Deaf people often oppose cochlear implants, and it isn't because they're anti-technology.
It's because they have a distinct culture that people have tried to wipe out. It's not easy feeling like you're doing a pretty damned good job of getting by in life, only to hear a whole group of people look at you and scream, "We have to stop any more unspeakable horrors like this from existing!"... Read More: 5 Reasons Life as a Deaf Person Is Weirder Than You Thought.
WATCH [CC] - One Minute: Real Deaf Education - Time for the real truth what is really going on with Deaf Education today.
One Minute: Real Deaf Education - producer by Jason Tozier aka TheLastHiccup, who is known as the most controversial blogger in Deaf Community in the America, shares the educational video "One Minute: Real Deaf Education" going viral on social media in Deaf community... this video will make you the last hiccup'd!
Jason Tozier refuse to be embarrassed about doing this video that will make thinkers both to examine the truth and there is no reason why people should be intimidated by snobbish folks who tell them that it is beneath their dignity to use American Sign Language and many others...Educational Bankruptcy!
WATCH [CC] - Deaf News: #PSBSuperintendent2015 - Canadian Deaf President Now Movement - Superintendent Search: Elite Deaf Schools.
TORONTO -- This special discusses the movement for a Deaf Superintendent in Ontario, Canada - George Postlethwait, our Board President, made several comments on the latest community concerns related to the Provincial Schools Branch - Superintendent selection process - #PSBsuperintendent2015.
Postlethwait want to share with you that the Ontario Association of the Deaf is in full support of Rose Etheridge's advocacy efforts for the next incumbent of the Superintendent to be a Deaf individual. Rose is the mother of two Deaf children. We fully endorse the work she has done to engage the community thus far.
Led by Rose Etheridge, a Deaf mother of Deaf children. She's saying now is the time for a #Deaf president. She's saying there has been no #DeafSuperintendent in Canada for the entire country's history.
[Clarification: PSB = Provincial School Branch, not Board.]
One by one, Canadians are mobilizing to demand a Deaf president and end audism for once and for all. There is no alternative. And we have much to learn from their fight against oppression.
Rose Etheridge on twitter: "Thank YOU to Deaf teachers and Canadian communities for supporting #DeafSuperintendent" ... she tweeted.
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