Deaf People Fight To Be Heard - Lydia Callis

<i><b>Deaf News: Lydia Callis, longtime advocate of Deaf Rights, won admirers as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s sign-language.</b></i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2016/03/deaf-people-fight-to-be-heard-lydia.html" title="New Yorker ASL Terp Lydia Callis"><img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuEAil59ZJVUjeX9qpMpvbb4kRSxKDPSK4pHh7YVewjuObFk4ypkjFWACkagJbLgtk_D3M5rUiom9B-V6MJg-m2f3qt49x1Oeya_nJV4AggS-TEFt1L1EQyVckVok_upPgKxfH4JEcEFez/s400/lydia-callis-asl-terp.gif" width="500" /></a></div><br /><br />NEW YORK CITY -- New York Times: <a href="https://twitter.com/LydiaCalas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lydia Callis</a> wanted to get her mother a gym membership for Christmas last year. When she called to arrange a consultation, she mentioned that her mom (who lives in Arizona) is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_loss" target="_blank">Deaf</a> and would need a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_interpretation#Sign_language" target="_blank">sign-language interpreter</a> for the session. The health club said it would not provide a signer. Ms. Callis who became an Internet sensation during Hurricane Sandy as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/nyregion/lydia-callis-sign-language-interpreter-gains-fans-during-hurricane-sandy.html">exuberant sign-language interpreter</a> told the club that it was actually required by law to do so. Still it refused, and Ms. Callis, who was calling from Manhattan, gave up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2016/03/deaf-people-fight-to-be-heard-lydia.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="New Yorker ASL Terp Lydia Callis"><img height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPgxbQhHQdE-LvkbaAILTcV47E5O3du2IK6e2Z3N0-WR1meWf6YCmNOXN8N_PSZ9jqX4FY2K0jBhEXX6jwMt1Nik6O7yc3rspdZ7hkUsoXCVIrb_RkrqScyEzchpUUHGsNYi3Wcq7LWEx2/s320/lydia-callis-new-york-times.jpg" width="300" /></a>Last year was the 25th anniversary of the <a href="http://www.ada.gov/">Americans With Disabilities Act</a>, and yet this kind of scenario plays out regularly for people who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing. While the broader culture has become accustomed to certain changes the law has engendered, particularly wheelchair access, the rights of the Deaf have frequently been misunderstood or simply disregarded.<br /><br /><br /><br />Recently, however, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_rights_movement" target="_blank">Deaf rights</a> movement has begun to gain ground, particularly in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" target="_blank">New York</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br />One sign of this momentum has been a flurry of lawsuits. Last year, the city’s Department of Homeless Services <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-deaf-homeless-people-gain-interpreters-shelters-article-1.2404490">settled a case</a> that charged its shelters with failing to provide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language" target="_blank">American Sign Language</a> interpreters for Deaf residents, and a suit filed last summer in Westchester County claimed that two hospitals refused a Deaf couple’s requests for interpreters after the husband had a heart attack.<br /><br /><br /><br />Another case involved <a href="https://www.facebook.com/diana.williams.5220" target="_blank">Diana Williams</a>, a Deaf woman from Staten Island who was arrested in 2011 and was denied a sign-language interpreter, as the federal law dictates. In October, the <a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2015/10/deaf-woman-sues-nypd-for-wrongly.html">Police Department settled her lawsuit for $750,000</a>. Her lawyers, from the Eisenberg & Baum Law Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, said it was one of the biggest payouts of its kind.<br /><br /><br /><br />“What’s disturbing about all these lawsuits is that the A.D.A. has been in effect for several decades,” Eric Baum, one of the firm’s founders, recently said. Mr. Baum said that his firm had litigated about 100 Deaf <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination" target="_blank">discrimination</a> cases, roughly half in the New York metropolitan area, many dealing with a failure to provide interpreters. He was sitting in the Union Square office alongside the Law Center’s co-directors: Andrew Rozynski, a lawyer and fluent A.S.L. signer whose parents are deaf, and Sheryl Eisenberg-Michalowski, a Deaf rights liaison who was born Deaf...<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/nyregion/deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-fight-to-be-heard.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Read More</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Related Post</b>: <a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/search/label/Lydia%20Callis">#Lydia Callis</a>

Deaf People Fight To Be Heard - Lydia Callis

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#whyIsign - Trending Campaign Goes Viral

VIDEO [CC] - <i><b>Deaf News: Meet Stacy Abrams, the person who started the #whyIsign social media movement.</b></i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2016/03/whyisign-trending-campaign-goes-viral.html" title="#whyIsign communites campaign"><img height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv5q2QPQaYd_6He5Clok2pkRBk_9Ht_wBrwg0ZSFLEyMHz_QQ2iPF-48xbqUfctTdxbcXLYwqDixPwx3P0mwSa_X8MOPmgubpJeiWtZQqo5WcM-FgsVeUIlsExm3ABtRPrz8kzT-NXyXVt/s400/%2523whyIsign.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/stacy.abrams.50" target="_blank">Stacy Abrams</a> welcomes everyone to join March 13th-15th <a href="http://www.whyisign.com/" target="_blank">#whyIsign</a> trending campaign!<br /><br /><br /><br />Stacy Abrams How did #whyIsign start? she thought of it to inspire families everywhere to share their personal stories about why they elect to sign with their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_loss" target="_blank">Deaf</a> children. There are countless reasons why we care so much about signing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language" target="_blank">American Sign Language</a>. Now it is your opportunity to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Whyisign-515038975329512/" target="_blank">share your story</a>!<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mOlftws5cyM" width="500"></iframe></div><br /><br /><a href="http://dailymoth.com/" target="_blank">The Daily Moth</a> - The Deaf Host ASL Radio Show: Meet Stacy Abrams, the Deaf woman who started a social media campaign to embrace and inspire families of Deaf children.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/autI7jMiAV0" width="500"></iframe></div><br /><br />Top reasons why supports #whyIsign:<br /><br /><br /><br />#1 To sign is human.<br /><br /><br /><br />#2 Researches have proven that learning ASL first can help improve speaking skills.<br /><br /><br /><br />#3 It is important that the baby is exposed to ASL because language acquisition is important to take place, during first five years of the child's life.<br /><br /><br /><br />#4 The point of the #whyIsign message is that Deaf children who have ASL have greater academic success.<br /><br /><br /><br />You can help make <a href="http://www.whyisign.com/" target="_blank">#whyIsign</a> go viral. Share <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Whyisign-515038975329512/" target="_blank">your story with the media</a>!<br /><br /><br /><br />Purchase your #whyisign t-shirt - <a href="http://www.route66promo.com/product/whyisign/" target="_blank">http://route66promo.com/product/whyisign</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Follow #whyIsign on social media:</b><br /><br />Youtube - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23whyisign" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/whyisign</a><br /><br />Facebook - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Whyisign-515038975329512/" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/whyisign</a><br /><br />Twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/whyisign" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/hashtag/whyisign</a><br /><br />Instagram - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/whyisign/" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/whyisign/</a><br /><br />Official Website - <a href="http://www.whyisign.com/" target="_blank">http://www.whyisign.com</a>

#whyIsign - Trending Campaign Goes Viral

VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: Meet Stacy Abrams, the person who started the #whyIsign social media movement. Stacy Abrams welcomes everyone to jo...

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StopHam - Stop A Douchebag Movement

VIDEO [CC] - <i><b>Stop a douchebag movement: Russia's bad driving vigilantes the version with english subtitles.</b></i><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2016/03/stopham-stop-douchebag-movement.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="StopHam - Stop A Douchebag Movement From Russian"><img height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0LD3JDwQgOwBcFKkgTDCuaW-NxVPIz5Z6UK2icAZ1JG5q7W8ztoM9FhPHKyaqT1x069m49JnbejPRog2rbUt8tHFCpyHpunwWYUfBHQb6zguExfRnidaZqHUlfhlFZR-sUiz35TBnFQom/s320/stopham-stop-a-douchebag-russians.jpg" width="250" /></a>StopHam (СтопХам) Russian which translates as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/stopxamlive/videos" target="_blank">Stop a douchebag or stop a lout</a> is a Russian non-profit organization, headquartered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow" target="_blank">Moscow</a> and founded in 2010 by members of the youth movement <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashi_%28youth_movement%29" target="_blank">Nashi</a>, which opposes traffic rules violations and arrogance on the road. The leader of the organization is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.chugunov.75" target="_blank">Dmitriy Chugunov</a>. The mode of operation of the activists of the movement is to film offenses and their conversations and confrontations with offenders and consequently edit and upload the gathered footage to video-sharing websites such as YouTube.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JFMv0tEJfbM" width="500"></iframe></div><br /><br />One of the popular strategies is to place big stickers with the phrase "<a href="https://youtu.be/OuZdIwlI_ZU" target="_blank">I don't care for anyone, I park where I want</a>" on car windshields of non-cooperative traffic offenders. A number of accidents involving activists of the movement have garnered significant public attention in Russia. Watch the channels - English version: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/Lomak1581" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/stopham</a> - Russian version: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbDwGuUDlyV4uo5UZ6RqVmw" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/channel/stopxam</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StopHam_%28organization%29" target="_blank">SOURCE</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Follow StopHam:</b><br /><br />Subscribe - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/lomak1581/videos" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/stopham</a><br /><br />Facebook - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stopham-153775278039318" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/stopham</a><br /><br />Twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/stopxam" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/stopxam</a><br /><br />Reddit - <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/stopxam/" target="_blank">https://reddit.com/r/stopxam</a><br /><br />Official Website - <a href="http://stopham.tv/" target="_blank">http://stopham.tv</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Related:</b> <a href="http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-worst-road-rage-incidents-of-all.html">The Worst Road Rage Incidents Of All Time</a>

StopHam - Stop A Douchebag Movement

VIDEO [CC] - Stop a douchebag movement: Russia's bad driving vigilantes the version with english subtitles. StopHam (СтопХам) Russian wh...

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