Monday, September 26, 2011
When hearing people complain of their communication rights
You think only deaf people do this? Here's a case of hearing people complain about not having communication access with deaf people. In this particular case you had a deaf federal employee who preferred only an interpreter but the interpreter was only available once a week for one hour leaving the rest of the 39 hours without an interpreter during the work week. This deaf employee has access to a typing communication device that would allow him/her to communicate to a hearing person face to face but refused to use it. Hearing federal employees were all too willing to use the typing device to communicate fully with their deaf employee. The refusal by this deaf employee to use the easy to use face to face communication device puts the work of everyone else in the office on hold for 39 hours. By doing that, the deaf employee also takes away the hearing employees’rights to communicate, ironically so. So, who is hurting who here? A case of a selfish deaf employee?
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3 comments:
Are you getting a commission for talking about UbiDuo?
No, I'm not getting commission talking about UbiDuo. The owner and CEO of sComm is a very good friend of mine and I believe in what UbiDuo can do. They make a world a difference to those who take advantage of it. Even life changing.
Anony @ 2:50 PM, who are you? Maybe a name instead of hiding behind anonymity.
All we know is the one side of the story. Maybe the Deaf employee is illiterate or has very poor English skills so he felt embarrassed or didn't want to cause any misunderstanding between his co workers. We cannot make any judgements until we know the full story. In this article, all we know is the refusal of using a device and his preference of using an interpreter but no mention of the reasoning behind it.
BTW, I am not the same anoy as the first one.
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