Nearly a million people with a hearing disability in the U.S. don’t have accessible severe weather information from their local broadcast meteorologists.
safety updates and was put in touch with Burglund, the treasurer for the Sioux City Association of the Deaf and a representative of the deaf community. Their conversations initially were about accessibility in general, but weather naturally came into the picture.
Rennie shared the video with a private group of meteorologists on Facebook, hoping to help get the word out to every place that the storm might affect. About a week later, Smith put her ASL skills to the test as a winter storm was about to hit Oklahoma. She used spoken English and signs to record a video forecast for social media. She posted her video the evening of Feb. 1, and it went viral within hours. “It even went viral on LinkedIn. … I didn’t know that was possible,” she said.Smith and Rennie have received widely positive responses.
Amid the positivity, Smith has received criticism for directly signing her spoken English words, rather than translating to a correct form of ASL.“In the future, I’m going to make videos that maybe I have someone else’s voice, or maybe I don’t voice [at all] and I just sign in ASL,” she said. She wants to work on becoming more fluent but says she is not trying to fill the role of a trained interpreter.
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