Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Deaf News: Lydia Callis, longtime advocate of Deaf Rights, won admirers as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s sign-language.
NEW YORK CITY -- New York Times: Lydia Callis 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 Deaf and would need a sign-language interpreter 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 exuberant sign-language interpreter 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.
Last year was the 25th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, 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.
Recently, however, a Deaf rights movement has begun to gain ground, particularly in New York.
One sign of this momentum has been a flurry of lawsuits. Last year, the city’s Department of Homeless Services settled a case that charged its shelters with failing to provide American Sign Language 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.
Another case involved Diana Williams, 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 Police Department settled her lawsuit for $750,000. 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.
“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 discrimination 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...Read More.
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NEW YORK CITY -- New York Times: Lydia Callis 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 Deaf and would need a sign-language interpreter 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 exuberant sign-language interpreter 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.
Last year was the 25th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, 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.Recently, however, a Deaf rights movement has begun to gain ground, particularly in New York.
One sign of this momentum has been a flurry of lawsuits. Last year, the city’s Department of Homeless Services settled a case that charged its shelters with failing to provide American Sign Language 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.
Another case involved Diana Williams, 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 Police Department settled her lawsuit for $750,000. 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.
“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 discrimination 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...Read More.
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VIDEO: Pharrell's "Happy" signing interpretations of popular songs becomes an online hit.
The video that pop up on Facebook and Twitter - the kids at Camp Mark Seven’s Deaf Film Camp which offers filmmaking instruction to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing youths, came out with an inspiring music video that is an ASL interpretation of Pharrell’s “Happy” that going viral online communities.
This video is an American Sign Language interpretation of Pharrell Williams's "Happy." An expression of music in ASL composed by Rosa Lee Timm and Azora Telford.
The video was produced by a team of Deaf campers & staff from Deaf Film Camp 2014 at Camp Mark Seven. This video is displayed for entertainment and educational purposes only.
Performed by Rosa Lee Timm & Azora Telford
Pharrell Williams's "Happy"
ASL Interpretation
CAST
Rosa Lee Timm
Azora Telford
Campers
(coming soon)
Teachers
Bellamie Bachleda
Braam Jordaan
Bim Ajadi
Sophia Ballester
Tate Tullier
Wayne Betts Jr
Counselors
(coming soon)
Interpreter
Drisana Levitzke-Gray
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER (VIDEO)
Convo
VIDEO PRODUCER
Stacy Lawrence
Sophie Sok
EDITOR
Bim Ajadi
CINEMATOGRAPHER/CO-EDITOR
Wayne Betts, Jr.
VISUAL EFFECTS
Braam Jordaan
MAKEUP ARTIST
Sophia Ballester
VIDEO PRODUCTION CREW
Key Grip / Mentor for Campers
Bim Ajadi
Braam Jordaan
Bellamie Bachleda
Tate Tullier
Hunter Luther
Zhara Chauhan
Darren Drolsbaugh
Crew
Drisana Levitzke-Gray
Lifeguards
Erika Helm - Buckman
Eudore Robert Muhlbauer
VERY SPECIAL THANKS
Jarrod Musano
Lisa Dallos
Convo
Del Mar Interactives
National Technology Institute for the Deaf (NTID)
Gallaudet University
Gear Head Rentals
High10media
International Deaf Emergency
The Hollywood Reporter
The Utica Observer - Dispatch
Charmaine Hlibok & CM7 Board
© 2014 Mark Seven Deaf Foundation, Inc.
The video that pop up on Facebook and Twitter - the kids at Camp Mark Seven’s Deaf Film Camp which offers filmmaking instruction to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing youths, came out with an inspiring music video that is an ASL interpretation of Pharrell’s “Happy” that going viral online communities.This video is an American Sign Language interpretation of Pharrell Williams's "Happy." An expression of music in ASL composed by Rosa Lee Timm and Azora Telford.
The video was produced by a team of Deaf campers & staff from Deaf Film Camp 2014 at Camp Mark Seven. This video is displayed for entertainment and educational purposes only.
Performed by Rosa Lee Timm & Azora Telford
Pharrell Williams's "Happy"
ASL Interpretation
CAST
Rosa Lee Timm
Azora Telford
Campers
(coming soon)
Teachers
Bellamie Bachleda
Braam Jordaan
Bim Ajadi
Sophia Ballester
Tate Tullier
Wayne Betts Jr
Counselors
(coming soon)
Interpreter
Drisana Levitzke-Gray
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER (VIDEO)
Convo
VIDEO PRODUCER
Stacy Lawrence
Sophie Sok
EDITOR
Bim Ajadi
CINEMATOGRAPHER/CO-EDITOR
Wayne Betts, Jr.
VISUAL EFFECTS
Braam Jordaan
MAKEUP ARTIST
Sophia Ballester
VIDEO PRODUCTION CREW
Key Grip / Mentor for Campers
Bim Ajadi
Braam Jordaan
Bellamie Bachleda
Tate Tullier
Hunter Luther
Zhara Chauhan
Darren Drolsbaugh
Crew
Drisana Levitzke-Gray
Lifeguards
Erika Helm - Buckman
Eudore Robert Muhlbauer
VERY SPECIAL THANKS
Jarrod Musano
Lisa Dallos
Convo
Del Mar Interactives
National Technology Institute for the Deaf (NTID)
Gallaudet University
Gear Head Rentals
High10media
International Deaf Emergency
The Hollywood Reporter
The Utica Observer - Dispatch
Charmaine Hlibok & CM7 Board
© 2014 Mark Seven Deaf Foundation, Inc.
ROCHESTER, NY. - Rochester has more Deaf and Hard of Hearing residents per capita than the national average and a larger Deaf population than many other similarly sized cities, a new report out of Rochester Institute of Technology has found.
Rochester’s sizable Deaf community has often been assumed but was never quantified until the report, written by Gerard Walter and Richard Dirmyer from RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
The study found other cities have more total Deaf residents per capita, but among college and working aged people, Rochester has one of the largest populations in the country. In particular, the study found Rochester has far and away the highest percentage of Deaf residents enrolled in secondary education, likely driven by NTID.
“Often times it’s difficult to understand how many people are really in the community,” said Thomas Pearson, director of the National Center for Deaf Health Research at the University of Rochester. “This has been a real challenge for anyone interested in the field.”
Using American Community Survey data, Walter and Dirmyer found there are 43,000 Deaf or Hard of Hearing residents in the Rochester metro area, about 3.7 percent of the population. That’s higher than the national average, which is 3.5 percent.
Rochester doesn’t have the highest population per capita as is often suggested, however. The report only looked at a handful of cities, but found 3.9 percent of Pittsburgh’s population is Deaf or Hard of Hearing. The authors of the report attribute that to more elderly residents living in Pittsburgh than in Rochester, and the onset of age-related deafness... Read more: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120925/NEWS01/309250048/Rochester-Institute-of-Technology-deaf?odyssey=nav|head
Related News - Wham ABC: http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Study-Rochester-Has-Largest-Deaf-Community/NIohNf_5HkSnV30z7zDwdg.cspx
RIT-NTID News: http://www.ntid.rit.edu/news/rochester-areas-deaf-population-better-defined
RocWiki blog: http://rocwiki.org/Deaf_Community
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: NEW YORK CITY - Justice is blind, but that’s no help if you’re Deaf. A suspect in a Bronx murder is trying to get his videotaped confession tossed because he says he was misunderstood and confused by a sign-language interpreter.
Following a tip, cold-case investigators nabbed Gabriel Thompson, 48, in 2010 — 25 years after he allegedly stabbed and killed a man who was having an affair with Thompson’s live-in girlfriend.
Prosecutors say Thompson confessed to the murder, but he claims the cop who interpreted his answers during an interrogation ignored his request for a lawyer and misconstrued him.
Thompson says it was also not clear to him that the person asking questions during the session was actually a prosecutor trying to gather evidence to charge him with the murder of Miguel Lopez... Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/cop_missed_the_signs_deaf_slay_suspect
Following a tip, cold-case investigators nabbed Gabriel Thompson, 48, in 2010 — 25 years after he allegedly stabbed and killed a man who was having an affair with Thompson’s live-in girlfriend.
Prosecutors say Thompson confessed to the murder, but he claims the cop who interpreted his answers during an interrogation ignored his request for a lawyer and misconstrued him.
Thompson says it was also not clear to him that the person asking questions during the session was actually a prosecutor trying to gather evidence to charge him with the murder of Miguel Lopez... Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/cop_missed_the_signs_deaf_slay_suspect
EXCLUSICE VIDEO: Former Onondaga County family court judge Bryan R. Hedges is accused of sexually abusing his 5-year-old Deaf niece 40 years ago.
SYRACUSE, NY - Ellen Cantwell Warner, the suspected victim in this case, spoke out at Vera House in Syracuse Thursday.
"An experience like this would be difficult for any child growing up, but it is especially difficult for a Deaf child, whose communication is limited. He preyed on my deafness," says Warner.
"40 years of trauma have finally come to an end. I am at peace. The truth has set me free. I feel like a butterfly that has finally emerged."... Read more: http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story
Ellen Warner is holding a press conference after coming forward to say she was sexually abused... Read more: http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story
SYRACUSE, NY - Ellen Cantwell Warner, the suspected victim in this case, spoke out at Vera House in Syracuse Thursday.
"An experience like this would be difficult for any child growing up, but it is especially difficult for a Deaf child, whose communication is limited. He preyed on my deafness," says Warner.
"40 years of trauma have finally come to an end. I am at peace. The truth has set me free. I feel like a butterfly that has finally emerged."... Read more: http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story
Ellen Warner is holding a press conference after coming forward to say she was sexually abused... Read more: http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story
