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Why You Shouldn't Share Those Emotional 'Deaf Person Hears for the First Time' Videos
There's one "inspirational" viral video I'm completely sick of seeing and will be happy to never see again.
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Screenshot/YouTube The Problem With 'Deaf Person Hears for the First Time' Videos
A case against sharing them as "inspirational" stories
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The Faux Sign Language Interpreter Was an Insult to Deaf People – and to Mandela
This morning, I had about a dozen emails in my inbox, all about the same story: How the sign language interpreter who was interpreting Barack Obama’s speech at yesterday’s memorial service for Nelson Mandela was a fake.
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Your Jokes About Bloomberg's Sign Language Interpreters Aren't Funny
These days, a major world event can’t happen without an accompanying meme. During Hurricane Sandy, the new social media star is Lydia Callis, the American Sign Language interpreter who appears next to the Mayor at press conferences and whose facial expressions have garnered her an internet following and – the ultimate status symbol on the internet—a fan Tumblr.
