#deafrights — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #deafrights, aggregated by home.social.
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A #deaf 9 year old is angry after being unable to go to school because her council couldn’t find her a specialist #interpreter. Maisie attended the same school since nursery and has always had a one-to-one sign interpreter.
"I feel angry and frustrated. I want to see my friends. I miss my school friends.". https://bit.ly/4elT2ic
Maisie, who is temporarily being educated at home in #Broseley, will now have to travel 32km to start at a new deaf resource base school in Wolverhampton.
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A #deaf 9 year old is angry after being unable to go to school because her council couldn’t find her a specialist #interpreter. Maisie attended the same school since nursery and has always had a one-to-one sign interpreter.
"I feel angry and frustrated. I want to see my friends. I miss my school friends.". https://bit.ly/4elT2ic
Maisie, who is temporarily being educated at home in #Broseley, will now have to travel 32km to start at a new deaf resource base school in Wolverhampton.
#DeafRights -
As popular as podcasts have become, the elephant in the room is how exclusionary they are to not an insignificant swath of the population. By their nature of being an audio-based medium, the reality is #Deaf and #HardOfHearing people have never been able to experience podcasts and enjoy them as the masses do. https://bit.ly/3SDDmxG
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In a first, #Deaf lawyer argues Supreme Court case in #SignLanguage https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/in-a-first-deaf-lawyer-sara-sunny-argues-supreme-court-case-in-sign-language-4421944
#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #WomenWithDisabilities #InclusionMatters #RepresentationMatters #DisabilityInclusion #DeafRights -
Cutting Corners: How to optimize space and design for the #Deaf community https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/cutting-corners-thematic-architecture-080823
#InclusionMatters #DisabilityInclusion #accessibility #DeafRights -
How is #SignLanguage adapting to #ClimateChange? https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66464437
Now they are among 200 #environmental science terms that have their own new official signs in #BritishSignLanguage (#BSL).
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#SupremeCourt hands victory to public school #students with #disabilities, which could give parents more leverage in negotiating with school administrations over assistance for their children https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1165072110/supreme-court-hands-victory-to-public-school-students-with-disabilities
#deaf #education #IDEA #ADA #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityPolicy #DeafRights