COMMUNICATIONS CARD

Deaf people in india are often beaten to ensure that they are really deaf. No... its true. this is a common test performed by police men and other authority groups such as random mobs, groups of rambunctious youth on a rampage and so on.

I really dunno how useful it will be in a heated situation but we just developed a communication support card for our deaf members. A simple plastic card to be carried and shown to any one to let them know that you are in fact deaf and are not able to speak and communicate as others do with few tips on talking/communicating with deaf people on the flip side. A plug for the internet video relay service, Signntalk.org and The Association of Sign Language Interpreters is added and you have a neat little card that says most of it.

We are doing pilot test with the group at the National Deaf Youth Conference starting on 25th jan. I will be back with feed back.