NAD: Where is the Law of Deaf People's Human Right to a Natural and Fully Accessible Language?

Uploaded on February 12, 2010 by asleveryday

What does Rehabilitation mean?DeafASLVlogs discusses how the section 504 of rehabilitation of 1974 that made a big impact on the services that focuses on curing/rehabilitating Deaf people.Where is the law for the linguistic birthright of Deaf people? None! Deaf people who use American Sign Language has no legal right for accessing a natural language.Shockingly, I just learned that there is no legal mandate for advertisers and promoters use captioning on commercials and NAD would use their time to work with CBS and to ensure that all commercials have closed caption. It is more than 20 years that there is no law for legal mandate for closed caption on all the media including movie, tv shows, web video, DVD, and etc.. I feel that NAD should have use their time to get closed captioning on all movies, commercials, and tv shows and web videos mandated in the bill and get it passed in order to make it a law. This world is not disney. Businesses would find a way to get around and not to put closed caption. It is best interest if we put into the law. NAD would fine media people for not following the law. THese money will go to NAD, education, employment, and etc… NAD can focus on other very important issues in the Deaf community. Time’s running out. We will running on the wheel and we will see same result over and over. We can’t do that. We must do something. Cut the BS. They’re taking too much our time. Enough! Make a law such as a Language Accessibility Act of 2010 that have legal mandates for people to follow…Have a good Valentine Weekend!