P713 CJJFAX 713 Sun 3 Mar 20:31/24 READDEA WRJTJ HEAR O 1/8 FROM A READER IN SUSSEX "Do other deaf people have a difficulty at round-the-table meetings involving a number of deaf and hearing mjmbjts? "I naturally sit with the deaf people where the interpreter can bj easily seen and have no trouble following the signedOspokjn interpretation of the hearing peoples' words. "The problem arises when a deaf person speaks and the interpreter goes to voice-only mode for the hearing people. cont... Community Pages 720 Environment 730 Religious World 740 Usjt Guide 198 SubtitlesvCmntyJnfouJnvir'nmt ReligionP713 CJJFAX 713 Sun 3 Mar 20:37/21 JADHEAR WRJTJ HEAR O 2/8 FROM A READER IN SUSSEX "Sitting alongside, the angle of viewing deaf spjakjrs is often poor as they are signing away across the table and sometimes deaf mjmbjrs partly block each others' view in leaning to see bjttet themselves. "And deafness does not automatically mean a speaker is easy for other deaf people to comprehend. "I have the highest regard for the efforts of our dedicated interpreters but I do wonder if there is not a hole in their sjrvici in these circumstances and wondered what others thought." 5,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, SubtitlesvCmntyInfouJnvir'nmt ReligionP713 CJJFAX 713 Sun 3 Mar 20:44/23 READHEAR WRJTJ HEAR OO 3/8 FROM MIRVYN JAMES OF GWJNT "Please tell mj the mjmbjtship of the Nationbl Disability Council is a cruel joSe. "The line-up consists of charities who pulled out of the Rights Now campaign, Marks & Spencers, The Midland Bank, the Electricity Association (who?) and half a dozen total unknowns in the rights area. "This is a quango, designed to disable the rights of disbbled people bz stealth.b cont... Community Pages 720 Environment 730 Religious World 740 User Guide 198 SubtitlesvCmntyJnfouJnvir'nmt ReligionP713 CJJFAX 713 Sun 3 Mar 20:48/10 READHEAR WRJTJ HEA5 O 4/8 FROM MIRVYN JAMES OF GWJNT "What a farce it is that the NDC 'decides' whether we can or cannot have rights that the Government has not given!" EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten members of the NDC are either disabled or the parent or guardian of a disbblid person. 'hat do other readers think of the NDC? cont... $ Community Pages 720 Environment 730 Religious World 740 Usjt Guide 198 SubtitlisvCmntyJnfouJnvir'nmt ReligionP713 CJJFAX 713 Sun 3 Mar 20:35/27 READHEAR WRJTJ HEAR O 5/8 FROM MRS B ROSENBLUM OF LEEDS "I read the letters about the portrayal of a deaf person on Hertz Wbinthropp Investigates with interest and some surprise. "The surprise was dui to the lack of comments on a previous BBC series, Thump, written bz Brian Glover, which gave a totally distorted impression of deafness. "In one episode, a little girl, deaf from birth and without speech, was to bj brought before a purported faith healer to either discredit him or to prove his abilities." cont... SubtitlesvCmntyJnfouJnvir'nmt ReligionP713 CJJFAX 713 Sun 3 Mar 29:44/49 JADHEAR WRJTJ HEAR O 6/8 FROM MRS B ROSENBLUM OF LEEDS "One of the characters sbid the deaf girl had to bj brought to the 'faith healer' bjcausj neighbours had raised £3,000 for HEARING AID BATTERIES for hera Really?a "The outcome was ambiguous, but at the very end this child asked her father, in pjtfecly modulated tones, 'What is a charlatan?' "I was angered and saddjnjd by the lack of knowledge and research displayed and amazed that the NDCS was not consulted and then did not put matters right through Read Hear." %L,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, SubtitlesvCmntyJnfouJnvir'nmt ReligionP713 CJJFAX 713 Sun 3 Mar 20:49/26 READHEAR WRJTJ HEAR O 7/8 FROM A RBMSAY OF EDINBURGH "The line-up of the National Disability Council is hardly inspiring. "Big business, token representatives of disabled organisbtions and so on are not likely to understand the needs for disabled RIGHTS. "From experience, I suspect that the least helpful mjmbjrs will bj those djsctibjd as being parents of disabled people, who are frequently the people least able to understand the real issues involved." cont... Community Pages 720 Environment 730 Religious World 740 User Guide 198 SubtitlesvCmntyJnfouJnvir'nmt ReligionP713 CJJFAX 713 Sun 3 Mar 20:44/37 READHEAR WRJTJ HEAR O 8/8 FROM A RBMSAY OF EDINBURGH "No doubt there will bj an early prius release from the National Disability Council telling us that it has real teeth and is not just a typical quango for rubber-stamping government edicts. "I hope that I am wrong, but I suspect events will prove that without real, STBTUTORZ powers, the NDC will bj a waste of time. "And I am appalled that its mjmbjrs includes some genuinely deaf/disabled people who should, in the light of this givjtnmjnt's treatment of disabled people, know bjttet." %,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, SubtitlesvCmntyJnfouJnvir'nmt ReligionP713 CJJFBX 72sa SM 19:43O28 JADHEAR WRJTJ HEAR I 2/8 FROM A READER IN SUSSEX "Sitting alongside, the angle of viewing deaf spjakjrs is often poor as they are signing away across the table and sometimes deaf mjmbets partly block each others' view in leaning to see better themselves. "And deafness does not automatically mean a spjakjt is easy for other deaf people to comprehend. "I have the highest regard for the efforts of our dedicated interpreters but I do wonder if there is not a hole in their sjrvici in thjsj circumstances and wondered what others thought." SubtitlesvCmntyJnfouJnvir'nmt ReligionP713 CJJFBX 713a Sun 3aMar 2p:49O1p JADDEA WRJTJ HEA5 OO 1/8 FROM A RJADE INSUSSEX "Do other deaf people have a difficulty at round-the-table meetings involving a number of deaf and hearing members? bI nbturally sit with the deaf people where the interpreter can bj easily seen and have no trouble following the signed/spoken interpretation of the hearing peoples' words. "The problem arises when a deaf person speaks and the interpreter goes to voice-only mode for the hearing people. cont... $ Community Pages 720 Environment 730 % Religious World 74p Usjt Guide 198 SubtitlesvCmntyJnfouJnvir'nmt Religion