Archive for January, 2002


Jan
01

Pittsburgh couple settles with doctor’s office

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Originally appeared in Silent News, January 2002.
When a couple has a child that needs immediate care, they expect top-notch, accessible service. Even with the Americans with Disabilities Act having been enacted a decade ago, doctors’ offices and other medical providers often continue to violate the powerful law when deaf patients ask for equal communication[.....]



Jan
01

Editorial: Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

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Originally appeared in Silent News, January 2002.
Well, deaf schools are taking yet more blows from the press. I’ve been following the series published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about sexual abuse at residential schools for the deaf nationally. Some of them I read in depth; others I skimmed through. I think a lot of them[.....]