ENTERTAINMENT
because we are not just about information.
We want people to come to us regularly for all that is media.
I wondered how she came up with the name…
Actually I wanted to name it The Deaf Friendly Foundation because "Deaf Friendly" is a trade name. When something is "Deaf Friendly" it means that you have the accommodations necessary. But someone grabbed "Deaf Friendly" in the UK. So I said
"What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do?"
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Then the idea of signing "Welcome" came to me.
When someone is welcome it means that they are invited, they will be respected and they will be treated properly. That is what we want the hearing world to be able to do. If that means sign language accommodations, interpreters, technology or if it just means popping in a DVD that we have produced, it's going to make a deaf person feel welcome.
I was curious about all of the ways that Deaf Welcome Foundation actively advocates for Deaf people…
Different ways.
Information is one way. We want the hearing world to be able to communicate with the deaf. So we have been getting as many corporate sponsors as we can to donate webcams and with the webcams, you just plug it into a computer and, if you have high speed Internet access, you can access an interpreter within 10 seconds -
