I know what the answer is and if I just stay in the world of interpreters then all these hearing people won't know that is the answer. If I just stay in the world of deaf people I will just be listening to them cry forever.
I have got the answer; I just have to change the audience.
I have done networking with CEO's so I am not intimidated with people that have the power. I need to talk to the CEO's who are not going anywhere soon so that they can make it company policy to have sign language media playing in their vestibules or a sign language resource library in their Human Resources department and now -
everybody has to get with the program and provide equal access to the deaf.
It is the law!
But the law says that you have to provide reasonable accommodation. Because we are just coming on the scene, they don't realize that now "reasonable accommodations," well, the bar has been raised:
It's no longer just "72 hours later provide an interpreter for 45 minutes."
Nope.
Reasonable now means:
GET A WEBCAM, LINK AND IN 10 SECONDS HAVE THIS DEAF PERSONS ISSUES RESOLVED!!!
So, I've got the answers. I have got "the cure to cancer"! And there are a lot of people that know, I am not the only one that knows but they are so busy advocating as social workers, as interpreters, that they are not stepping out onto the playing field to tell the real world what is going on.
I asked Theressa to fantasize for a moment about what it is that she wants to have happen for Deaf Welcome Foundation.
I want a deaf family to be able to walk into a restaurant with their three hearing children ages 5, 6 and 10 and be able to enjoy dinner without turning the kids into interpreters. They are kids. They just want to eat. They don't want to interpret the menu. I want them to be able to walk in and the Maitre D just clicks on the computer and answers the parent's questions and takes their order and they can sit down with their kids and enjoy a meal.
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