Story of the Day 8/ 7/ 2013

My son has a job!
I am referring to my deaf son, Aaron, who has been living at home, jobless, which is why I haven't cleaned the bathrooms in over a year.
I figure, he should be doing something constructive, productive, or maybe just .... disgusting- so that i don't have to do it.

At any rate, late last week, he was hired by a movie theater. He had an interview, filed in paperwork, showed them copies of his social security card, his driver's license and his circumcision records. Oh, okay, maybe not that last one.

And he went for training.

This theater is part of a large chain.
They have a very well thought out training program.

They have new employees watch several videos that explain about sexual harassment with people acting out scenarios. Not only scenarios of direct harassment, but even subtler things where a third person's looks may prompt a comment. Even an older female worker calling younger worker, "Honey" is brought up as something that can make a coworker uncomfortable.
I was rather impressed by the breadth of what was covered.

And then, they had some training videos about disabilities.
Of course, they already seemed to be doing rather well, since they had hired my son- the deaf one.

But someone did manage to miss a small detail.

This video wasn't captioned.

Story of the Day 8/ 5/ 2013

My children are making a movie.
Aaron has spent days and days and days- a couple fo weeks, already, doing the sound editing.
Not only does he have to balance the voices and dub, he also has to fill in sound effects for things like breaking glass and exploding balloons.

Aaron prefers using a website called Freesounds. Freesounds has a large collection of sounds that people have recorded and shared.

Today, while watching him work, I said, "You know, Aaron, you should record some sounds and upload them to share with people, as a way of giving back."

My son looked at me, a bit non-plussed.
Then he said, " You know, Mom, sound effects are not my strong point."

After all, he is deaf.