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August 02, 2006
Being deaf in Singapore
Cliff said:
Today, the situation of our deaf Singaporeans is not much better. Schools lack the government support to provide equal quality education. Interpreters, like myself, are mostly volunteers, untrained. Television programmes, including news broadcasts, are not captioned. Every day, some basic right is ignored - and the relevant ministries' official response is that demand has not yet reached a critical mass to justify the allocation of such resources. Today, I looked into the faces of these people, and felt ashamed that I was the by-product of a government that took the sensible, economic decision to cultivate only the mainstream.
Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "An interesting post on the plight of the deaf in Singapore, something we don't get to read a lot about, and know very little of. "
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