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From: Gerry.Grimm@p0.f71.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Gerry Grimm)
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Subject: Recent program on TV for Hearing Impaired
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Date: 12 Jul 90 21:28:06 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Another note on doings out here in Seattle....
 
Was flipping thru the TV channels and noted that on one of the community 
access channels, a program moderated by the head of the WSAD (Wash. 
State Assn of the Deaf) was almost completely signed, with a voice 
over.  The program was put together by a University of Washington 
professor, I believe, and acted by a contingent of hearing impaired 
thoughout the state.
 
It was a full hour, no commercials, and dealt with a variety of problems 
that people young and old, hearing and non-hearing, face.  A couple 
of examples: one short pgm was about a deaf student who had, unknown 
to him, dyslexia, which is a disorder that causes people to reverse 
and invert (I think) letters.  The end result is the person with the 
disorder has difficulty reading.   Another short program dealt with 
a man who was an alcoholic; yet another program showed a woman who 
, in her thirties, was dealing with a hearing loss, after having grown 

up hearing.
 
Each short program of about ten minutes was followed by a panel discussion 
of what was shown.  It was well put together, though I wish the program 
about the woman with hearing loss had been captioned.  That whole 
short program was voice only.  All in all, it was nice to see.  Like 
other things though, it could have been better publicized.  I had 
seen some of the people in the program just a few days before it was 
shown, yet none indicated it would be on TV, nor that it had even 
been produced.
 
The WSAD convention could have been better advertised also.  One woman 
was upset because so few young people were there.  It basically came 
down to little publicity about the event.  Again, that is part of 
the reason Debbie Salo and I started up the bulletin board system, 
SHI-BBS.
 
Time to go...any comments on how we can get the word spread about 
events?  Drop me a note....till later...GG

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