i24 News – Planning for the 2022 World Cup is reaching its final stages, including for people with disabilities, who are the focus of an Israeli startup that is working to make the mega-event in Qatar accessible to the deaf community.
“There are going to be thousands of deaf people coming to Qatar from all over the world,” Tomer Levy, founder and CEO of Sign Now, told i24NEWS.
Read on at https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/07/22/israeli-startup-to-make-2022-world-cup-deaf-accessible.
Uber will make changes and pay millions to settle a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit alleging that the ride-sharing service illegally overcharged people with disabilities for years.
The Justice Department sued last year alleging that Uber violated the Americans with Disabilities Act with its “wait time” policy. Uber has charged extra fees since 2016 for riders who take more than two minutes to get into its cars and start their trips after the car arrives at the pickup location. Fees were charged even when the company knew that a passenger needed extra time due to a disability, according to the lawsuit.
The Justice Department noted that passengers with disabilities may need extra time for many reasons including to collapse and store a wheelchair or walker or for a person who is blind to safely walk from the pickup location to the car.
NEW YORK — A mom in Westchester County is going the extra mile for her daughter, who was born with severe hearing loss.
CBS2’s Astrid Martinez shows us how a special gift allowed her daughter to feel seen and celebrate her uniqueness.
Many parents revel in the moment when their child talks for the first time.
“Our audiologist in New York City told us she was a hearing child and she would be great and go enjoy your baby,” Dana Savitsky said.
But shortly after Lila Savitsky’s first birthday, her mother realized her daughter’s communication was not progressing. She followed her mother’s intuition and took Lila to a new doctor.
“She did a neurological hearing test that should have taken 20 minutes and they took an hour and a half with her, and when they came out they told me that she was profoundly deaf. She was born deaf,” Dana Savitsky said.
The family hit the ground running. Lila got cochlear implants at 20 months old. So as far as Lila can remember, she has always been able to hear. She has grown so fond of her implants, she even calls them her super power that she can turn on and off.
“I don’t have to hear thunder and lightning and maybe like scary stuff, a scary movie, or when some big scary sound happens. I’m like, nope, not happening,” Lila Savitsky said.
But she did start to question why others didn’t have her ears.
