refusal of service

20 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities act and doctors are still refusing to provide qualified interpreters?

An emergency interpreter costs on average $65 an hour with a two hour minimum in Texas. One cannot be obtained, used, and dismissed within those 2 hours to at least me sure a person understand his illness and treatment? No one suggests paying an agency interpreter all day - but a hospital cannot afford 2 hours?

Especially since the courts have determined that a $400,000 practice cannot claim undue hardship.


Surely there is a way to be sure the patient understands and is able to obey the doctor's instructions without relying on reading, a skill many deaf have at only a fourth grade reading level.

How many more people have to die?

Deaf Sports in the news

The US Deaf Sports Federation and Deaf Nation are conducting the first ever USA Deaf Tennis Open: July 15 to 19, 2010 at Las Vegas Hilton Tennis Center and Lorenzi Park Tennis Center in Las Vegas, Nevada

The next Winter Deaflympics are being held in Slovakia, February 18-26, 2011. Sports include: Alpine Skiing; Cross Country Skiing; Curling; Ice Hockey; Snowboard.

And Vancouver, who recently hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics will also host the Deaflympics, in February, 2015.