Source: https://www.facebook.com/100063343411305/posts/672922018162573/?mibextid=xfxF2i
DAD Note: The girl shown above uses ASL in the game as shown in the trailer. There are a handful of games doing this to our knowledge.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/100063343411305/posts/672922018162573/?mibextid=xfxF2i
DAD Note: The girl shown above uses ASL in the game as shown in the trailer. There are a handful of games doing this to our knowledge.
Takeaways:
A deaf Kansas woman going through a divorce signed a separation agreement thinking she would receive $500 a month in alimony.
But that alimony had never been agreed to.
“By the time (an attorney) reviewed the matter, it was well past the time to file an appeal,” said Leonard Hall, a lawyer at Hall Law Office in Olathe, Kansas.
The woman had not been provided with an interpreter, so she struggled to talk to attorneys directly. Hall said that’s why she didn’t understand the agreement.
She is far from alone.
Kansans who are deaf and hard of hearing don’t have enough access to legal services, advocates say. Interpreters or communication assistance are often not provided and some attorneys decline initial appointments when a person requests that help, said Robert Cooper, executive director of the Kansas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
“It’s not allowed. It’s illegal,” Cooper said through his interpreter. “It’s surprising it happens. (But) it’s reality.”