Is This Mother Of A Deaf Child Going Beyond The Bounds Of Common Sense In Her Demands?

[dave50]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42776454
Is she just pushing an agenda? I think she is being unreasonable and trying to make a point.

[gness]

TTT...there is nothing a venue can do to help a blind person see....there is something a venue can do to to help a deaf person "hear".

[Old_Geezer]

As I understand the legal requirement is to make reasonable effort to provide facilities. The provision of an interpreter at no extra charge for interpreting the main group's songs is, in my opinion, beyond that limit already.

It's not like a cinema where a recorded tape is simply passed to all places at once and played. This is an interactive task to do with a show that can change direction any moment.

Regardless whether the mother is after a big payout for herself or hoping to change the rules to make unreasonable demands on concert producers it is still wrong. And may have unfortunate consequences.

This attitude of litigation and every narrow opportunity is a sad direction for society to go. And it minimalizes those with reasonable, genuine, claims.

[ToraToraTora]

interesting from squad, so people in a wheelchair should be able to say go rock climbing and the providers of those experiences will get sued if they cannot make that happen? right oh!

[jackthehat]

TGT- 'Keepin' all in proportion'......as usual.

[ToraToraTora]

JTT did you read my post and sqads response to it?

[Sqad]

"so people in a wheelchair should be able to say go rock climbing and the providers of those experiences will get sued if they cannot make that happen?"

Correct. If rock climbing procedures are in place for wheelchair users and if the company agree to their use, then if they only provide access for going up the mountain leaving you to come down under your own steam....yes.......you can reasonably sue them.

[gness]

I have posted based on my experience......Hc has provided an excellent article to give us the chance to really understand how important an interpreter is and .....

TTT ruins a thread with completely stupid comments.

[jackthehat]

Yes, I did.

And, as usual, you ignore the subtleties of any given situation and head straight for the 'geezer' response. Right oh!

[ToraToraTora]

sqad, a lot of ifs and buts there, what of they refuse the disabled on grounds of practicality?

JTT, this is nothing more than an ever more common response from an attention seeker demanding the world mould itself to them. It is only machinations like yours and others that let them get away with it. If you are mutton then it's obvious that you are not going to get much out of a concert, simples.

[gness]

TTT.....for years my work involved taking deaf children....and adults to performances.
Are you now telling me they got nothing out of it......or are you ignorant of the different levels and types of deafness?

[jackthehat]

In Geezer-world that's probably true....

However, most of us live in (or hope to) a more accommodating, inclusive world.

[-Talbot-]

If I were deaf my preference would be to learn the lyrics myself and then be able to focus on watching the band rather than watching a random person act out the lyrics.

[ToraToraTora]

of course not gness, no doubt they get what they can out of it. All I'm saying is that they are not going to get the full experience due to their disability. How many of the deaf people you took filed a law suit?

[gness]

We had signers, TTT.

[gness]

There are dozens of these if anyone cares to watch and see how a signer can add so much to the experience of a deaf concert goer...

[gness]

And for anyone not convinced....how about this....if you were deaf wouldn't this be fantastic.....wouldn't you get so much from it?

[gness]

Please remove my reply too, ED/Mod...thank you...x

[Baldric]

Overdeveloped 'Sense of Entitlement Syndrome' imho.