But the one thing I like about this is that it actually has a much better explanation for where Jigglypuff went than just being quietly phased out of the anime.

Jigglypuff got captured by a deaf trainer. She finally found someone who could not fall asleep to her song. Also Brock apparently speaks sign-language since he was the only one able to talk to the trainer and ask for help.

(Original headcanon is here)

Ilove the thought of this. In general, Class 1-A will (at least seem to ) be somuch quieter after they figured out their own sign-language.

Ijust got a new headcanon because of this:

Afterthat sign-language becomes common between the students, classes get so muchquieter, it’s almost terrifying. Nobody whispers in the lessons. No yellinganymore when something goes wrong, not even from Bakugou. Sometimes, theunknowing teachers catch glimpses of weird hand-gestures or movements out ofthe corner of their eyes, but they can’t make sense of it. And sometimes, thestudents just start snickering or laughing as if a joke has been told, butnothing had been said or done that would justify the laughter.

Midnight,Cementoss and Present Mic just don’t know what’s going on. After they hear fromNedzu that Aizawa seems to hold is lessons in a very quiet manner (see abovefor @herocorrupted‘s​ idea) they figure out that at least the erasing hero seemsto know what’s going on.

It’sPresent Mic who dares to go ask him, one time when there is a break.

Aizawais sitting at a table in the teacher’s lounge, lazily skimming through thenewspaper and sipping his coffee, when Mic just walks up to him and asks,“What’s wrong with your students?”

Liftingan eyebrow at him, Aizawa suggests, “Probably the usual?”

“No,I mean – they’re behaving weird!”

“Moreso than usual?”

“They’reso… so quiet! Heck, not even Bakugouis swearing anymore, even when I start singing Love songs all of sudden, justto get a reaction out of them!”

“Andthat’s a bad thing,” Aizawa deadpans.

“No.No, it’s not,” Mic sighs, rubbing the back of his neck. He knows exactly whenAizawa is teasing him, and now is such a moment.

“ThenI don’t see your problem, Mic. Enjoy the silence.”

Pouting,Mic lets himself fall into the chair next to Aizawa, chin resting on his foldedarms. Aizawa is point blank ignoring him, already reading the newspaper again.“Please tell me, Shouta?”

“Idon’t know what you want to hear, Mic.”

“Prettyplease?”

“Youcan say please as prettily as you want, that’s not going to change anything…”

That’swhen Toshinori walks into the lounge, aiming for the teakettle on the stove. Hestops when he sees Mic, pouting, draped all over the table to look at Aizawa.

“Uh…what’s going on?” Toshinori wonders, gaze flitting from Aizawa to Mic and back.

“Micis wondering what’s wrong with our students,” Aizawa explains without lookingup.

Instantly,Toshinori’s expression shifts to worry. “Are they okay…?”

Aizawa’shand shifts, waving slightly as if to wave the question away.

Micnotices, but doesn’t think much of it.

Toshinori,however, instantly falls silent, a relieved sigh leaving him as he understands.

“Shouta,come on,” Mic tries again, frowning now. “If there is anything going on withClass 1-A, I want to know, too. There my students, too.”

“Thereis nothing wrong with them, Mic, I assure you,” Aizawa puts the coffee away,concentrating fully on the newspaper now. “So don’t worry about it.”

“Ifeel excluded, though. You know something about it, don’t you?”

Toshinorihas grabbed a cup of tea in the meantime and settled on a couch. He’s behindMic, so the radio host doesn’t see when the retired hero puts his cup down inorder to sign something with his hands.

I think we should tell him?

Aizawa’s gaze shifts slightly towards him, noting the familiar gestures. He lets go ofthe papers long enough in order to answer silently. I don’t see a reason to. It’s their secret, isn’t it?

But he looks like a kicked puppy! Toshinoriprotests.

Micstartles when Aizawa all of sudden lets out an amused snort, a sound not oftenheard from him. Blinking, the radio host looks up at his friend. “What?”

“Nothing,”Aizawa’s expression is a perfect poker-face again when he answers, theamusement there instantly gone.

Micfrowns, turns and looks over at Toshinori. The former number one smiles almost apologeticallyand shrugs.

Ittakes a moment for Mic to connect the dots, but when he does, he incredulously gapesat his colleagues. “You both do that, too!”

“Dowhat?” This time, Aizawa’s emotionless expression slips just enough to show thelittle smirk resting in the corner of his mouth.

“That…that talking without talking!”

“Thereis something like that? That sounds interesting.”

“Ah,you’ve got to be kidding me! Just tell me what’s going on, will you!Toshinori?!”

“Um,I don’t think I can tell you, excuse me…”

“Oh,come on!”

And yet people believe that learning Sign Language will delay a child’s language acquisition. So wrong! Sign Language can save lives, improve brain/social/growth development. Also, makes the kid Bilingual and having a Bilingual brain is work of wonders and magic!

@Starbucks barista goes above and beyond for customer #trending #RandomActsOfKindness

Like anyone with a disability, Ibby Piracha wants to be treated like any other normal person. But because he is deaf, he is faced with different challenges every day. Many people do not bother to learn sign language unless they have a family member or friend that is deaf, this can make life difficult for the hearing impaired.

When Ibby walked into his local Starbucks one morning recently, he was…

Margaret Weiss with her first child, Odelia. She’s pregnant again and due July 24, and this time she’s suing her local hospital for not providing an onside sign-language interpreter in the delivery room. (Photo: Margaret Weiss)

A pregnant Florida woman who is deaf is suing her local hospital for refusing to provide her with an on-site sign-language interpreter in the delivery room.

Margaret Weiss, whose second child is due in late July, says that the translation service being offered by Bethesda Hospital East — that of a translator stationed at a remote location, being beamed in via video-conferencing technology — is not sufficient.

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“It does add a level of anxiety for me because communication is so important,” Weiss, 30, of Boynton Beach, tells Yahoo Parenting through a telephone translator. “When I’m giving birth I can’t see everything that’s going on with a monitor — I have to change position, close my eyes. There are technical problems. That’s not effective communication.”

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When Weiss gave birth to her first child, daughter Odelia, in 2014, she wanted to do so at Bethesda, which is about a mile and a half from her home. But when she learned there would be no interpreter, she went to West Boca Medical Center, 20 minutes away, because it did provide an interpreter. The situation became complicated, though, when Odelia had to spend more than two weeks in the NICU, and Weiss, who doesn’t drive, had to find rides there constantly.

“I don’t want that to happen again,” she says. “I’m definitely worried about it.”

According to the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), hospitals must provide effective means of communication for patients, family members, and hospital visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing. But what constitutes “effective,” note experts including Weiss’s attorney Clara Smit, is largely left open to interpretation.

“The Department of Justice needs to come up with regulations that are much more specific,” Smit, a New Jersey–based attorney who has specialized in civil rights for the deaf for 25 years, tells Yahoo Parenting. In this case, she says, “Bethesda has really drawn a line in the sand.” The hospital’s stance has remained that its use of Video Remote Interpreting (VRI) is sufficient for Weiss, despite the shortcomings and possible glitches she and Smit have raised.

Margaret Weiss. (Photo: Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post/ZUMA Wire)

“There are problems with pixels, firewalls, freezing screens — so many limitations,” Smit notes, adding that it would particularly pose an issue with someone needing to communicate while in the throes of childbirth, when a live interpreter would be able to resort to all sorts of techniques, such as tactile interpreting (signing directly into a person’s hand so they could feel what’s being said) during intense moments when a woman’s eyes would likely be closed.

While the landscape has changed tremendously since Smit began practicing in this arena, and while “a lot of hospitals will provide live interpreters,” too many are now relying on VRI, she says — despite the fact that the technology required to make it an effective service has been slow in catching up.

A spokesperson at Bethesda told Yahoo Parenting that the hospital had “no comment” and was not at liberty to speak about legal situations. Hospital attorney John Heffling did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Yahoo Parenting, but told the Palm Beach Post, “There is no overwhelming evidence that the (video equipment) is not going to provide effective communication.” He added, “Nowhere does it say [in ADA regulations] it is not effective or shall not be used. They are leaving it to the decision of the people who know best, and the people who know best are the people who are providing the medical care.”

But Weiss objects to such a notion, saying, “I disagree with that statement because I am deaf, and [the doctor] know nothing about deafness or deaf culture.” 

The National Association for the Deaf, meanwhile, a national civil-rights organization, has a dedicated position statement regarding the use of VRI in hospitals. And it’s not exactly a glowing review.

“On-site interpreter services are more likely to result in effective communication than VRI services,” it says in part. “On-site interpreters have more physical flexibility, have greater access to visual and auditory cues and information present in the environment, do not encounter technology or equipment malfunctions, and can respond immediately to communication events as they arise. In short, on-site interpreter services are not subject to many of the limitations experienced by VRI services. NAD strongly believes that VRI services should be provided only if on-site interpreter services are unavailable.”

Margaret Weiss with her daughter. (Photo: Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post/ZUMA Wire)

Debra Pitkin, an attorney with NAD, tells Yahoo Parenting, “Unfortunately, the current trend shows that several hospitals believe that ‘effective’ means ‘just getting by’ or ‘some information.’ This does not comply with the laws, in our view.”

Weiss’s case is far from the first of its kind — pregnant patients in places from Miami to London have mounted similar legal fights — and many with other medical situations have sued hospitals for not providing sign-language interpreters as well. “We receive complaints all the time from all over the country about hospitals refusing to provide on-site interpreters — or any interpreter — for medical visits, including labor and delivery,” Pitkin notes. “Complaints about hospitals insisting on VRI use have spiked in the recent years. In fact, we have a lawsuit pending involving a woman who was given ineffective VRI service during her labor.”

Weiss’s case, in fact, was at first added to an already ongoing one regarding a handful of deaf patients who objected to the use of VRI services at Bethesda. But because of her impending July 24 due date, Smit filed an emergency motion asking for a sped-up ruling; luckily, if a decision doesn’t come in time, the hospital has agreed it will provide a live interpreter.

Until then, Weiss will remain dogged about her needs. “The use of VRI doesn’t match the situation,” she says. “It’s not appropriate.”