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Regarding AB 2072
Dear Members of the California State Senate,
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and consider the historic
opportunity for parents to play a role in charting the life journeys of their
deaf babies.
This historic opportunity is known as Assembly Bill 2072 by Assemblymember Tony
Mendoza that changes the way deaf babies are handled once they're determined
through the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention programs.
As civilization evolves and advances, the communities within advances as well.
Not all communities are willing to advance with civilization. The sign language
based deaf community is one of them. They may seem to advance with technology,
but they remain in a medieval state of mind that still believe in staying
dependent on taxpayers and living in a closed society.
The costs of maintaining a dependency based deaf community is enormous. Theresa
Bugler wrote in the lifestyles magazine that it costs $800,000 to teach a deaf
child sign language. The costs go beyond the $800,000 when taxpayers has to pay
for their interpreters in their schools, pay for their videophones in their
homes, and finally pay for their living expenses for the rest of their lives
because they usually end up not working. Modern Deaf Communication has
determined that deaf people who routinely use videophones have a lower job
occurrence in the deaf society.
Given these times when California is strained financially, it pays more to
create a new deaf community that does not end up as dependants on society as
we've seen they have become and does not end up as a drain on the taxpayers.
It pays more to give the parents the options on how their deaf babies are to be
raised. Lets return the deaf babies back to the soft warm loving arms of their
parents instead shipping them off to the hard cold crab claws of a closed deaf
society.
It has been proven many times over through deaf video blogging websites such as
deafvideo.tv, justdeaf.com, aslrocks.net, jdeaf.com, deafcube.com, and also seen
in facebook.com, tokbox.com, and many other video sharing websites that the
closed deaf society do not care about their members. There is never ending
infighting over picky issues, misconceptions, and misunderstandings. Speaking of
which, a well known deaf entrepreneur recently recruited a deaf college
professor to preach hatred under the misunderstood guise of combating hate
crimes against deaf people. Many deaf members oftentimes have to go through
painstaking gauntlets of litmus testing because most members of the dependent
deaf society seek "the purity within" by weeding out those that are determined
not deaf enough physically and literally. Should we as a responsible society be
sending the deaf babies out this way? NO!
Do parents need to sacrifice their deaf babies to the dependent deaf society as
it is? NO! Parents need to have a strong say on how their deaf babies are to be
raised and lets give them that opportunity by supporting and passing AB 2072.
Lets return the deaf babies back to the soft warm loving arms of their parents.
Signed
Richard Roehm
Modern Deaf Communication
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THE GRAPEVINES
SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES LEGISLATION TO CHANGE LABEL OF 'MENTAL RETARDATION' TO
'INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY'
On May 26, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
approved, by voice vote, a bill titled Rosa's Law (S. 2781) that would change
references to the words 'mental retardation' in numerous existing laws to
'intellectual disability'. The bill, introduced by Senator Barbara Mikulski
(D-MD) and Michael B. Enzi (R-WY) is aimed at eliminating the terms 'mental
retardation' and 'mentally retarded' from the U.S. federal law books. Before
approving the measure, the panel adopted, by unanimous consent, a Mikulski
substitute amendment that would specify that the bill is not intended to change
coverage, eligibility, rights, responsibilities or definitions in existing laws
and that the bill also is not intended to require states to make similar changes
to state laws.
Read the text of this legislation at
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.2781:
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FACE TO FACE TIMES
NEW FEDERAL ONLINE TOOL HELPS EMPLOYERS DETERMINE WHICH FEDERAL DISABILITY
NONDISCRIMINATION LAWS APPLY TO THEIR ORGANIZATION AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES
The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled a new tool to help America's employers
ensure their employment policies and practices do not discriminate against
qualified individuals with disabilities. The online Disability Nondiscrimination
Law Advisor, available at http://www.dol.gov/elaws/odep.htm asks users to answer
a few relevant questions on the nature of organization, size of staff, and
whether the business or organization receives federal financial assistance.
Based on the responses provided, the advisor generates a customized list of
federal disability nondiscrimination laws that likely apply, along with
easy-to-understand information about employers' responsibilities under them.
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THE FINGER BOWS
$32.7 MILLION AWARDED BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT TO
HELP THE ELDERLY AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES CONTINUE TO LIVE INDEPENDENTLY AT
HOME
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced $32.7
million in Service Coordinator grants to provide more than 19,200 low-income
frail elderly and residents with disabilities in federally supported housing,
with assistance to identify and receive health care, meals, and other critical
support services. These grants are directed to owners of privately owned
multifamily housing developments that receive money from HUD to house low-income
individuals. The owners or their management companies either hire or contract
service coordinators with backgrounds in providing social services, especially
to the frail elderly and people with disabilities, to assist their residents
with special needs.
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THE SOUR ORCHIDS
Now with many social service agencies sharing their thoughts about AB 2072, this
is our turn with this newsletter.
AB 2072 is a very serious matter that's being brought up in the California State
Senate this month. If you're residing in California, you need to contact your
State senator and tell them that it is important that they have your attention.
http://eyefirevlogs.com/eyefire2/?p=5574
You can click on this link for the page that has the link to locate your state
senator and a sample letter to use.
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COME TO OUR MEETUPS!
The Orange County American Sign Language Meetup Group -
http://asl.meetup.com/37/ - and the Orange County Deaf & Hearing
Impaired Meetup Group http://deaf.meetup.com/38/ meets each 3rd Fridays of the
month.
We are currently pondering a new locations for all of our meetup events because
our competition appears to have hijacked the excitement, prestige, and normalcy
of our cherished monthly gatherings.
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FROM THE BLOGSPHERE
Deaf Baby Hears Mom's Voice for the First Time
Research shows that baby's can distinguish their mother's voice even in the
womb, which is part of what makes this video so precious. Eight-month-old
Jonathan has his cochlear implant turned on for the first time and reacts to
hearing his mother's voice. Get out your Kleenex, folks.
http://ocdac.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/deaf-baby-hears-mom%e2%80%99s-voice-for-th\
e-first-time/
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FROM THE VLOGSPHERE (VIDEO BLOGGING)
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FROM THE NEWSLETTER READERS
"GDUI's affiliate liaison, Kae Seth, and guide dog school liaison and program
chair, Cecelia Warren, presented their views but were also constitutionally
prohibited from voting. "
As I am relatively new here and somewhat out of the loop myself could someone
take a moment to clarify why K. Seth and C. Warren are prohibited from voting by
the GDUI constitution.
Respectfully submitted,
M. Morrow-Farrell, MA
Philadelphia PA
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