Bias

•A British mother was told to quit her job so she can teach her son how to sign. (11.12.22)

•There's an ASL interpreter shortage. (11.4.22)

•This woman was arrested for being a fake ASL interpreter. (11.3.22)

•A Vietnam vet who heads up the VFW in Indiana shares his anger with 3M for providing defective earplugs to U.S. soldiers in combat and then doing everything it could legally to fight against those affected with hearing loss. (8.24.22)

•Covenant Health paid out thousands to a Tennessee deaf man who didn't get the ASL interpreter he needed. (8.19.22)

•A deaf job applicant to New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority was not given a sign-language interpreter. A three-judge panel determined that this was OK once it was determined that the applicant did not have the proper skills for the job. (8.12.22)

•A hospital in New Hampshire has been sued for not providing an ASL interpreter. (8.11.22)

•"Being Michelle," a new documentary, tells the story of the lack of accessibiity for the disabled in north Florida's justice system through the tale of one woman who is both deaf and autistic. (8.11.22)

•PewDiePie apologies after mocking a deaf TikToker. (7.29.22)

•Providence, the health-care organization in Seattle, is beind sued for discrimination against deaf patients. (7.27.22)

•3M is creating a $1 billion trust to help pay those that weren't protected from losing hearing when wearing the company's defective earplugs. (7.26.22)

•One in four deaf or blind patients have been refused their communication needs by the UK's National Health Service. (7.25.22)

•A deaf fan at Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival was denied captioning accommodations. (7.22.22)

•Deaf tenants on New York's Lower East Side with terrible living conditions have filed a class-action suit against the landlord. (7.20.22)

•Wired gets the lowdown on how smartphones can help hard-of-hearing folks. (7.20.22)

•Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Grassley have released a report showing that the dominant hearing-aid manufacturers are doing what they can to undermine over-the-counter aids. (6.30.22)

•A deaf job applicant just won a $225,000 settlement from a software company in Portland. (6.7.22)

•A deaf customer was called "most difficult customer ever" on a receipt. Dutch Bros Coffee is now apologizing. (5.27.22)

•A cafe required its new employee to not wear her hearing aid due to a "no earbuds" policy. The new employee followed orders and mayhem ensued. (5.18.22)

•A bride is refusing to accommodate her groom's deaf family, saying the wedding is "her day." Not everybody is feeling the love with this one. (5.5.22)

•Two deaf men in the San Francisco area claim a Jack in the Box worker wouldn't serve them because communication was difficult. (4.27.22)

•Lack of funding may keep the USA Deaf Wrestling team from competing. (4.21.22)

•One woman has unsurprisingly been getting a lot of grief on social media for asking her daughter-in-law not to sign at the dinner table. (4.20.22)

•TikTok turned on a deaf content creator, who was annoyed that a waitress ignored her. (4.17.22)

•Ten characters played by 10 deaf actors in television and film. (4.17.22)

•A shortage of ASL interpreters threatens appropriate medical care for deaf residents in Connecticut. (4.16.22)

•A 24-year-old British woman is now $927,000 richer after winning a lawsuit that alleged that the diagnosis of her hearing loss as a child was erroneously delayed. (4.6.22)

•The EEOC is going after a Minnesota health-care provider that wouldn't hire a perfectly qualified deaf applicant. (4.4.22)

•Rhode Island Department of Youth, Children, and Families has been ordered to provide ASL interpreters for deaf and hard-of-hearing families. (3.31.22)

•Cleveland Clinic Florida has been fined for not training staff on how to work with deaf patients. (3.22.22)

•Four hearing-aid manufacturers -- Widex, Lively, Hark Wellness, and Wonder Ear, Inc. -- have all settled out of court with the state of Connecticut for marketing products as being "FDA approved" when they weren't. (3.14.22)

•Around 100 University of South Florida deaf and hard-of-hearing students rallied to support the school's Interpreter Training Program. (2.23.22)

•State-funded agencies in Tennessee are being sued for not providing adequate ASL access. (1.20.22)

•The ACLU of Nebraska and the National Association of the Deaf are taking up the case of the deaf wrestler who lost the state championship this year and then claimed the ref did not accommodate his communication needs. (12.29.21)

•A lawsuit has been filed for the deaf woman who was detained by the North Las Vegas Police Department and then had her 11-year-old asked to interpret. (12.22.21)

•SiriusXM has been sued for not providing transcripts for deaf users. (12.14.21)

•A Deaf woman has accused Taco Bell of discrimination. (11.21.21)

•A hard-of-hearing grad student at Johns Hopkins describes how difficult it can be to deal with discrimination in the classroom. (11.14.21)

•"Eternals" may feature the first deaf superhero, but it also highlights accessibility issues in movie theaters across the nation. (11.11.21)

•A new lawsuit has it that the New York City Housing Authority has ignored deaf residents' requests for ASL interpreters. (11.1.21)

•One mother thinks her son's school pictures have been edited to eliminate his hearing aids. (10.28.21)

•This Texas woman claims McDonald's employees made fun of her being deaf. (10.28.21)

•Kaiser Permanente Washington is paying out more than $1 million to settle suits filed by deaf patients who claimed they didn't have sign-language interpreters. (10.21.21)

•A Connecticut hospital has agreed to provide services for deaf patients after settling with the US Attorney's office and Health and Human Services' Civil Rights office. (10.5.21)

•The case of a Colorado man who was jailed for not following police instructions despite not being able to actually hear the instructions has angered deaf advocates. (9.30.21)

•The student newspaper of George Washington University in DC chronicles a few ways the school is not treating its deaf and hard-of-hearing students with respect. (9.30.21)

•A Deaf man who couldn't hear police was Tased and then spent four months in jail. (9.29.21)

•A new lawsuit has been filed against a software company that refused to hire a deaf man. (9.29.21)

•A Deaf woman says she was denied service at a Dunkin'. She shared her story on TikTok. (9.17.21)

•Captioners for George Washington University classes will remain online this semester despite students returning to the classroom. The last-minute decision left some professors without the proper equipment. (9.13.21)

•A London modeling agency bilked a 26-year-old deaf woman out of thousands with its false promises. (9.1.21)

•A deaf traveler felt like she was "treated like a criminal" when she returned to New Zealand. (8.26.21)

•An Arizona hospital has paid out $50,000 to a deaf patient after failing to provde a sign-language interpreter. (8.24.21)

•A mother in Tennessee is trying to keep her deaf son's insurance benefits intact while he battles Covid-19. (8.24.21)

•In Nevada, a bus driver dropped a 4-year-old deaf student off at the wrong stop. (8.23.21)

•Newsday has had a suit against it dismissed that was filed by a deaf man who saw the publication's lack of close captioning on its website videos as discriminatory. (8.17.21)

•Some "Bachelor in Paradise" viewers are annoyed because star Noah Erb said he wanted to spend time with cochlear implant-wearing Abigail Heringer because she is deaf irked a few fans. (8.16.21)

•"CODA" is a great movie, but the deaf still face "outright discrimination" in Hollywood. (8.13.21)

•The famed Lollapalooza video of an ASL interpreter doing her thing to "WAP" has led to a conversation about how ASL can be fetishized by the hearing. (8.10.21)

•The Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital has settled a suit with the U.S. government and will now ensures access to deaf and hard-of-hearing patients. (8.6.21)

Scientific American reports that deaf children in foreign countries are getting inferior cochlear implants. (8.3.21)

•Indonesia is apologizing for the excessive force two of its military officers used on a deaf man in a video that was widely seen. (7.28.21)

•A deaf woman has won a legal fight against the English government about the lack of a sign-language interpreter at Covid briefings. (7.28.21)

•Pennsylvania is changing its services for deaf and hard-of-hearing residents. (7.21.21)

•Six-time swimming medalist Becca Myers has decided to pull out of competing in the Paralympics in Tokyo this year after she was denied the ability to bring a personal assistant with her to navigate travel and daily rituals due to coronavirus restrictions in Japan. (7.20.21)

•The Department of Justice and Washington State's Clark County Jail have reached an agreement on how to handle the treatment of deaf and hard-of-hearing inmates. The agreement stems from an incident that occurred in 2019. (7.16.21)

Hard-of-hearing employees have felt like "second-class citizens" in the age of hybrid and remote work. (7.14.21)

•A staffing agency in Honolulu is being accused of discrimination against deaf workers by the EEOC. (7.8.21)

•The investigation into the Oxnard College prof who was caught berating a hard-of-hearing student on camera is close to wrapping up. (7.7.21)

•A sheriff's office in Washington state is working to better relations with the DHH community after a lawsuit put the issue out into the open. (7.5.21)

•The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind have been found to be lacking in its student care as well as its finances. (6.28.21)

•The Department of Justice and Washington State's Whatcom County resolve multiple complaints of the county not following ADA guidelines, such as not providing an ASL interpreter. (6.14.21)

•E3, the video-game conference, failed its DHH viewers with extremely poor transcription, one writer opines. (6.11.21)

•The Black Deaf community in Rochester, New York, is feeling unheard in the world of health care. (6.14.21)

•The release of "Quiet Place 2" leads to an uproar over the lack of screenings with subtitles for deaf viewers. (6.11.21)

•This video shows how difficult it can be for the deaf when they are pulled over by the police. (5.18.21)

•A deaf customer at McDonald's ended up with no meal and some hurt feelings. A deaf driving instructor shared his thoughts on the situation. (5.17.21)

•Australia's Deaf community is facing an interpreter shortage. (5.16.21)

•A British morning show is feeling the heat after presenting a segment on Deaf Awareness Week that featured no captions or ASL translators. (5.5.21)

•A deaf student at Ole Miss is suing the school for its lack of closed captioning. (5.4.21)

•The Catholic Church is holding a virtual conference on May 7 and 21 to discuss sexual abuse of young deaf Catholics, the first such conference the Church has had. (5.4.21)

Now the Ohio Attorney General, Dave Yost, has issued a statement warning consumers to be wary of over-the-counter and mail-order hearing aids. (5.4.21)

•The Attorney General of Arkansas, Leslie Rutledge, is warning consumers to be extremely careful about buying over-the-counter and order-by-mail hearing aids. (5.2.21)

•A jury has decided that 3M owes $6 million in the first trial involving military earplugs that didn't actually protect as well as they should have. (4.29.21)

•The EEOC has sued Walmart for not providing accommodations for a deaf job applicant. (4.29.21)

•A nursing provider in Virginia has to pay $90,000 after it refused a deaf client services. (4.29.21)

•Advocates in Ireland are noticing that when deaf children have other disabilities, as 40% of deaf children in Ireland each year do, the overall assessments for the child are not showing the student's full cognitive capacities. They'd like to change that. (4.28.21)

•Marlee Matlin gave the introductions for the two Best Documentary Oscars on Sunday night. It was sweet to see her signing while an off-camera interpreter translated her ASL for the masses, but then ABC did what more than few are seeing as a pretty boneheaded thing: The network turned its cameras away from Matlin without at least providing captioning. ASl doesn't work if you can't see it. (4.26.21)

•The Annapolis Book Festival was held this past weekend and one of its speakers, author Haben Gima ("Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard"), was astounded to learn to that the virtual event wasn't being captioned. (4.26.21)

•The NAACP of Las Vegas has weighed in on the handcuffing fo the deaf woman in front of her children, saying, "We were just shocked when we initially saw it.... It was everything that we hoped we would never see again in Las Vegas." (4.22.21)

•Georgia Secretary of State Chris Carr has warned his state's residents to be very careful of the new wave of over-the-counter hearing aids. Some of them don't work quite as well as they claim to. (4.20.21)

•The ACLU says that the deaf woman who was pulled over in North Las Vegas and handcuffed inf front of her children, who were then asked to act as translators for their mother, suffered from a "clear" violation of the American with Disabilities Act. The woman says that her children saved her life. (4.19.21)

•A deaf woman was pulled over by the police in North Las Vegas and her 11-year-old twins were instructed to act as interpreters. (4.14.21)

•The prison experience for the deaf in the UK has been horrendous since well before Covid. (4.14.21)

•3M is facing one of the largest mass lawsuits ever thanks to military vets blaming the company's earplugs for not protecting their hearing well enough. The first court case is now underway in Florida. (4.9.21)

•A deaf Indiana woman is $9,500 richer after settling with county officials over a legal dispute about her receiving a vaccine while in police custody and not knowing what was in it. (4.6.21)

•Clubhouse, the invite-only community app, is facing some angry folks because it excludes some accessibility features that keep deaf people from being involved. (3.31.21)

•Minnesota will add live captioning and more interpretative services after a deaf man filed a complaint that he was shut out of public meetings about the future of the Minneapolis policd. (3.28.21)

•Confusing vaccination signups are particularly tough on the deaf and blind. (3.27.21)

•This childcare worker thinks she lost her job because she's deaf. (3.26.21)

•Scammers are targeting the Deaf community by claiming to be running a $1 million "deaf lottery." One man lost $51,000. (3.25.21)

•A property-management company is shelling out $25,000 after denying housing to deaf tenants. (3.22.21)

•Sudan is seeing a shortage of sign-language interpreters. (3.22.21)

•Hundreds of thousands of veterans are suffering from hearing loss; they claim that the government-issued earplugs that were supposed to protect them didn't do the job. (3.17.21)

•A deaf man is suing after a police officer in Austin, Texas, shot him multiple times with non-lethal rounds with no warning at a protest last year. (3.15.21)

•Former councilwoman in Washington state who is deaf sues for lack of closed captioning in the council's chambers. (3.15.21)

•Deaf content creators say TikTok and YouTube need better captioning tools. (3.15.21)

•Mental-health options for deaf and hard-of-hearing residents of Wisconsin are slim. (3.9.21)

•A deaf high school wrestler in Nebraska is asking for a rematch for the state championship after losing, he says, because of a miscommunication with the ref. The Nebraska State Athletic Association has committed to studying the grievance. (3.9.21)

•A professor at Oxnard College in California has been suspended after being caught on video berating a hard-of-hearing student. (2.20.21)

•Lawmakers in New Mexico want equal funding for DHH students. (2.15.21)

•After being taken to court by a deaf customer, Nike has told employees of its California stores that they need to wear transparent masks. (2.9.21)

•DHH Idahoans are ticked off by a lack of communication and access during the pandemic.

•YouTube is ditching community captions for creators in September and deaf advocates are not happy about it.

•Deaf advocates have sued President Trump for not providing an interpreter.

•The Massachusetts Commissioner for Deaf and Hard of Hearing has been placed on leave while he is being investigated for potential racist behavior while he was a college student. A California School for the Deaf official is also under investigation.

•The Illinois Department of Corrections is in trouble with the law for its dealings with deaf and hard-of-hearing prisoners.

•Social distancing can mean social isolation for the deaf, the New York Times reports.

•Deaf protestors face extra challenges during anti-police brutality protests.

•This deaf interior designer got past all of the discrimination of big firms by starting his own business in virtual design.

•Deaf advocates in Arizona are seeking more clear masks to help the DHH community.

The masking of America has some hard-of-hearing folks feeling handicapped for the first time in their lives.

Deaf New Yorkers want Governor Cuomo to have an ASL interpreter at his press briefings. They sued him over it and a federal judge ruled in their favor.

Deaf-blind people fear that doctors will overlook them when deciding who to save from Covid-19.

One man claims that a blood center wouldn't take his blood donation because he is deaf. Now he's suing.

Everybody wearing face masks is a nightmare for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.

Deaf and hard-of-hearing patients with coronavirus face extra barriers.

Sara Novic has a few words to share on why DHH truckers should be worried about the Trump administration.

A Michigan hospital has been sued by a deaf woman who alleges that it didn't provide proper services.

The New York Bar Association is accused of discrimination against hard-of-hearing members.

One man asks for Canada to be more supportive of Deaf artists.

Elearning isn't the easiest for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

As the coronavirus pandemic rages, the deaf have been frustrated by the lack of ASL interpreters.

The Deaf community is not happy with President Trump because there hasn't been an ASL interpreter at the coronavirus press conferences.

In Montreal, deaf advocates say that more needs to be done to get coronavirus news to DHH.

Of the world's 466 million people with hearing loss, 34 million of them are children. According to the World Health Organization, 60% of thgose children have preventable hearing loss.

A new study shows that more than half of deaf adults in America are unemployed.

Here's one deaf woman's story on the diffiulties of public transportation when you're hearing isn't the greatest.

Tufts Medical Center has agreed to improve its accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing patients because of a poor federal Americans with Disabilities Act compliance report.

After South Dakota got a lot of bad press recently for its poor history of working with deaf students, a bill requiring schools in the state to offer accomodations for deaf students failed in the state Senate.

Decades of abuse appear to have occurred at America's oldest deaf school.

The city of St. Paul, Minn., is giving one deaf woman $95,000 to settle her discrimination suit that alleged that the city's police department did not provide proper communication services.

After being at the wrong end of a discrimination lawsuit, MIT will now caption its online videos.

One New York woman bought hearing aids online and then had some serious trouble getting her money refuneded when they didn't work properly.

Lawmakers in Iowa are trying to eliminarte the State Board of Sign Language Interpreters and Transliterators.

A deaf professional soccer player was made fun of by an opposing player during a game. The league has chosen to not allow the bully to play again in that league.

Deaf people have a more difficult time getting work than their hearing peers.

The new census does not do a good job representing the DHH community.

A former Florida hearing-aid specialist is now suing the secretary of the Florida Board of Health and the Florida Board of Hearing Aid Specialists because he claaims that the state's "onerous, outdated, and unconstitutional regulations" limits access and raises prices.

Australia's deaf community is unhappy because CapTel text-captioned phones will stop working in February.

Connecticut's Lawrence + Memorial Hospital has settled a complaint filed with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for a deaf patient who alleged that it failed to provide her with an American Sign Language interpreter.

Two residents of a California retirement facility are suing the place for not providing proper services for DHH members.

UPS and its deaf employee have settled its discrimination lawsuit.

New York City's 311 hotline for residents to report on everyday issues is a great idea, but it's getting a lot of complaints from deaf and hard-of-hearing users. Some have had to wait 45 minutes to get help.

The National Associaon of the Deaf has asked that hearing restrictions be lifted for people to get a commercial driver's license. CDL trainers are not excited about the idea.

A 77-year-old British woman who lay down in the middle of the road during a political protest was cleared of all charges after police arrested her for disobeying instructions. She was cleared after the court learned she is hard of hearing.

Video remote ASL interpreters are a solution many hospitals across America are using to communicate with deaf partients. But the deaf community is not a fan of the technology. VRI has actually made access to health care worse for the deaf.

Cal State has been sued by a former student who says the school did not provide the accommodations he needed due to his deafness.

A soon-to-be-a-mother deaf woman in Georgia requested that the hospital have an ASL interpreter there for the big moment. The hospital told her she'd have to pay for that out of her own wallet. After an outcry, the hospital's story has changed.

Here's a look at the difficulties of the New York subway system for both the deaf and the blind.

A deaf woman's lawsuit against a New York hospital for not providing an ASL interpreter won't be heard because the suit wasn't filed within a certain time window.

A Mazda dealership in Hawaii that allegedly didn't hire someone because he is deaf has settled the lawsuit against it.

There is some concern that deaf people may be excluded from some areas of science because progress is happening so quickly, the development of related ASL signs may not be happening fast enough.

Minnesota's Fairview Health plans to shut down one of the few substance-abuse programs for the deaf and hard of hearing. Former patients are not happy about it.

Only 5% of the hard-of-hearing children in India go to school.

An Australian schoolgirl filmed bullies harassing her deaf brother in hopes of getting the school to stop them. The school is investigating.

Harvard just settled a suit filed against it by the National Association of the Deaf. As a result, it must caption all online videos, including events that are live streamed.

The founder of the Duke University American Sign Language Club doesn't feel that the school is doing anywhere near enough to be as accessible as possible.

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader uncovers how poorly deaf and hard-of-hearing children are treated by the state of South Dakota in the beginning of a seven-part series. The Superintendent of the South Dakota School for the Deaf, who will retire this year, shares her thoughts on the coverage.

The upcoming film "El Tonto" is directed and stars Charlie Day of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." It is being marketed as featuring Day as an "idiot deaf mute," which obviously has plenty of people irate. The film's title, by the way, translates to "The Fool."

Deaf and hard-of-hearing students in South Carolina are suffering from a lack of access to qualified ASL interpreters.

Some say there is a shortage of ASL interpreters across the country but others believe there are enough interpreters out there -- just a shortfall in people demanding them.

After a legal settlement, Detroit's William Beaumont Hospital now has to provide ASL interpreters for its deaf patients.

A deaf woman's visit to an emergency room in Arkansas has left her wondering if her rights have been violated after the use of a video remote interpreter.

The Saskatoon schools don't teach or use ASL to interpret for its deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Some Canadians are trying to change that.

The Board of Elections in New York tried to remove ASL interpreters from the polls. Thankfully, after a legal fight, it lost.

Britain's movie theaters don't have close to enough captioned screenings.

Schools for the Deaf sued the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Then the case was dismissed.

Angel Theory may star on ""The Walking Dead," but the hard-of-hearing actor still was "verbally assaulted" by a security guard about her service dog at a convention.

Virginia rejected this woman from a special prison program because she is deaf. Then they changed their minds.

A deaf teen in Tennessee couldn't hear a deputy sheriff's command to stop. He ended up at the wrong end of a Taser.

A Tennessee Dairy Queen has been accused of not hiring a man because he wears cochlear implants.

Jack in the Box fired the employee who refused service to a deaf woman.

The EEOC has charged that a New Mexico medical center discriminated against a deaf employee.

Burning Man sued by two deaf men for discriminatory practices.

Deaf woman says Burger King refused her service.

A father and son head to prison for a $27 million hearing-aid scam that targeted American Airlines workers.

Scotland is leaving its deaf students behind.

A deaf man claims that a Florida theater kept him from seeing The Lion King.

The EEOC is suing a Michigan company for not providing accomodations for a hard-of-hearing employee.

Judge denies a deaf woman in New Mexico a sign-language interpreter

DC Deaf advocates skeptical of area the open-caption pilot program at local movie theaters

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