From the article: Deaf Culture - Jonah Syndrome
What is Jonah Syndrome? It is a term that I coined years ago to describe incidents when something is deaf-related but no effort is made to make it accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people. For example, an Internet news clip about deafness that does not have any captions. Contribute your own examples of Jonah Syndrome via the form below.
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Audiology Clinic
- How about an audiology clinic (in a hospital) that calls out the names of patients in the waiting room? There is no visual method of knowing it's your turn.
- —Guest SB
It happened again in 2007!
- I read your article after seeing a Twitter status posted by Jared Evans: http://twitter.com/jaredev/status/5022208407 I then followed his link, which led me to this blog post. Which then led me to update the blog post I wrote about the fleeting glimpses of Marlee Matlin signing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl in 2007: Super Bowl Broadcast Proves Sign Language Underestimated « Daniel Greene’s Blog-o-rama http://bit.ly/1HSIRT
- —Guest Daniel Greene
Jonah Syndrome
- Good article! Thank you especially Nancy Housner's experience. I had seen some clips at news station like that. Deaf student was interviewed by the reporter about football. he was signing but the videocam was focus on reporter nodding and an interpreter talking.
- —Guest Ecnarb
Johah Syndrome
- When my daughter was small, I found some wonderful videos about teaching sign language to hearing children. Linda Bove was in them. The parts of the story that were voiced were not signed or captioned!
- —waddleido
Jonah Syndrome
- I had a Jonah Syndrome response from a manufactor of hearing aids! I received a video explaining about the hearing aids and the company. You guessed right! The video was not captioned and included background music.
- —NancyHousner
