Driving through a different neighborhood this week, I noticed two "Deaf Child" street signs in fairly close proximity to one another. It got me questioning some things about these signs.
1) How does one go about getting one of these signs put along your street? Who do you contact? Do you have to produce some sort of proof that you have a deaf child?
2) How long does it take to get the sign installed? We all know how slow most road work is, and while sign installation is not a job requiring graders and backhoes, I still think this must take months.
3) Do the signs ever get taken down? This is related to point #2 in terms of the "public works" actually doing work, really. Do you have to "renew" your sign periodically, or else someone comes to take it down? If not, can we really expect that when someone with a deaf child moves, they have the thought to tell the appropriate people they can take the sign down? Or are there orphaned "deaf child" signs scattered all around the suburbs of American cities, marking children who have moved, grown up, or what-not over the years?
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