Hearing President Joe Biden address mental health to the entire nation was an important night for Susan Stearns.“Each of us can be ambassadors and have a role to play in dispelling stigma, and ensuring folks hang on to hope, seek the care that they.
.Special. Ahead of the Paralympics in Japan, the BBC s disability correspondent introduces us to five people who have experienced important moments in the.
saying, you won t amount to nothing, and they say now, he does amount to something, he s special! anne burke and frank 0livo, who sadly died in 2019. remember, you can watch witness history every month on the bbc news channel, or you can catch up on all our films alongside more than 2,000 radio programmes on our online archive. just go to bbc.co.uk/witnesshistory. now to the 1980s, and a protest which made the national news in america. in 1988, students at the deaf only gallaudet university barricaded their campus, protesting their board of trustees decision to appoint a hearing president. witness history spoke to dr irving king jordan.
witness history every month on the bbc news channel, or you can catch up on all our films alongside more than 2,000 radio programmes on our online archive. just go to bbc.co.uk/witnesshistory. now to the 1980s, and a protest which made the national news in america. in 1988, students at the deaf only gallaudet university barricaded their campus, protesting their board of trustees decision to appoint a hearing president. witness history spoke to dr irving king jordan. it s important to know that i am totally deaf i can t hear a jet engine, i can t hear anything. right now i m working with a sign language interpreter, sarah, so s sitting front of me next to the camera, so instead of hearing your questions, i am seeing sarah s signs.
now to the 1980s, and a protest which made the national news in america. in 1988, students at the deaf only gallaudet university barricaded their campus, protesting their board of trustees decision to appoint a hearing president. witness history spoke to dr irving king jordan. it s important to know that i am totally deaf i can t hear a jet engine, i can t hear anything. right now i m working with a sign language interpreter, sarah, so s sitting front of me next to the camera, so instead of hearing your questions, i am seeing sarah s signs. newsreader: gallaudet college has being the centre of deaf- education in america since1847. in 1987 the president at that time stepped down. right away there was a push for the board to recognise that the next president should