Post by silverdragon on Jan 24, 2018 8:12:13 GMT
Deaf mum sues Little Mix promoter in sign language row
Your reading that right yeah?. Good, because I dont have a sign language interpreter.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42776454
Last year, Cate's mum Sally Reynolds bought six tickets to see the band in concert on 1 September at the South of England Event Centre in Sussex.
Sally is deaf and booked for herself and two deaf friends to go with their daughters who are all able to hear.
In order that she and her two friends could fully access the performance, Sally asked the organisers, LHG Live, to provide a British Sign Language interpreter.
She was initially offered carer tickets and told that she could bring her own interpreter, but she didn't consider that met her needs or amounted to full access.
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Sally explained: "We asked two or three times, please can you provide the interpreter for us, and the explanation we got back was just a 'no'.
Sally is deaf and booked for herself and two deaf friends to go with their daughters who are all able to hear.
In order that she and her two friends could fully access the performance, Sally asked the organisers, LHG Live, to provide a British Sign Language interpreter.
She was initially offered carer tickets and told that she could bring her own interpreter, but she didn't consider that met her needs or amounted to full access.
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Sally explained: "We asked two or three times, please can you provide the interpreter for us, and the explanation we got back was just a 'no'.
Its a MUSIC event... sign language interpreters go out for major events, yes, but the on-stage ones are expensive, [-I know one in my greater family of friends..] and do not do "Private performances", because they have enough business doing whole-stage events.
"Demanding" that the show organizers provide one "free" for just a select part of the audience?.
You asked, they said no, end of matter.
I challenge the legal right to demand a sign language interpreter "free" because one or two people in a whole audience.
"I wanted to share the same experience my daughter had - essentially I just wanted access to the songs."
I have something useful, its the name of a bloody web site that provides lyrics for songs, and I am sure I have no need to post it as many of us already know of its existence?.
Under the Equality Act 2010, any organisation supplying a service to the public is under a duty to make reasonable adjustments to ensure that a disabled person's experience is as close as possible to that of someone without a disability.
If this is going to be the case, I therefore challenge the organisers of the London Marathon to provide me with a pusher for my wheelchair so I can compete in the next event?.
I mean, how ludicrass can you get. Yeah I know, I am pushing it a little far here, but you get the point?.
And just for the record, if a private person in the seat in front of me had someone stood next to them "Signing" a whole performance, getting in the way and spoiling my view of the stage, I think I would have reason to complain myself?.
So having an on stage sign language interpreter, hows that happen?.. all the camera's on the stage will be pointing at the action, what, they going to need a separate screen to JUST show a blow-up of the sign language?. For just ONE pair of friends?.
She decided to instruct lawyers to apply for a court injunction to force LHG Live to provide a British Sign Language interpreter.
It worked. Hours before the hearing was due to take place, LHG Live agreed.
However, the concert had started with two supporting acts and the interpreter had not been booked to cover them.
"I felt that we were really part of the Little Mix experience," said Sally, "but because it was so good I realised that we had missed out on the first two acts.
It worked. Hours before the hearing was due to take place, LHG Live agreed.
However, the concert had started with two supporting acts and the interpreter had not been booked to cover them.
"I felt that we were really part of the Little Mix experience," said Sally, "but because it was so good I realised that we had missed out on the first two acts.
WHATTT???>>>
You "get what you want" and then complain you dont get more?.
"We had paid for our tickets like everyone else."
No one else demanded a sign language interpreter.
"We consulted with her recommended agency and agreed to provide the professional interpreter of her choice for the Little Mix show.
"This included specific staging and lighting, and a set list in advance."
"This included specific staging and lighting, and a set list in advance."
So blame the interpreter for doing what she was asked and nothing else then?.
Sally Reynolds is now issuing legal proceedings for the failure to make reasonable adjustments, in the form of supplying an interpreter, for the whole concert.
but I must warn you, life lesson, "walk tall, smile, be polite, and carry a big stick", Dragons carry trees?. 