From:	Patricia Mutton 
Sent:	Monday, 7 December 2009 4:47 PM
To:	disabdis
Subject:	Exemption from Disability Discrimination Act for movies.

I write to protest against this exemption.  We see many deaf and hearing impaired children at the Deafness 
Centre at the Children's Hospital at Westmead.
Children, teenagers and young adults learn a great deal from appropriate movies, and enjoy them immensely 
if they are able to understand them(via captions).  Captioning also has the added fringe benefit of improving 
children's and teenagers' reading skills in a "fun" way.  Parents cannot always take children or teenagers to 
movies at particular times. Why should deaf and hearing impaired children and teenagers  have such 
restriction of this beneficial experience?
Patricia Mutton  
Paediatrician  
The Deafness Centre   The Children's Hospital at Westmead