Alright, I want to watch this! But how in heck do I do so?
The U.S. is a noisy nation; even the national anthem celebrates bomb blasts. Yet one group of Americans — the deaf — live outside the great din, often more happily than their hearing compatriots imagine, according to a captivating PBS special.
Deaf volunteers!
In other words, the deaf can!
I remember my own group of mixed deaf-hearing young people (ok, I was young then) and our trip to the mountain village in Vietnam to construct and renovate the school.. Those were the days!
When volunteers from the American Red Cross respond to a disaster, timing is critical. Communicating becomes the most important factor during the crisis and the biggest challenge for deaf or hard-of-hearing volunteers.
Another ridiculously long hiatus.
Anyway, we’re live and the cameras are rolling again!
First up, an inspirational story.
Spaziani has been deaf since birth. He also is autistic. This has not stopped him from going through public school, completing the woodworking program through then-SCT-BOCES, graduating with honors from Southside High School and landing a permanent job last summer at E.M. Pfaff.
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