[Faith-talk] some updates on Nick, and my day summarized

[Andrew]

hi i don't think a group home is really suppose to give  much
information out any  personal information would be under the privacy
act  and can be counted  it as confidential information. that said
maybe this group home felt they could say something appart from the
truth

On 1/17/15, Beth Taurasi via Faith-talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Debbie and all,
> The home lied to me about some of NIck's condition.  Group homes do not
> have the capacity to really tell the truth about blind individuals.  It
> is likely that Nick had to take a visually based IQ test, which is not
> accessible, and could present a very different result than a simple
> question and answer true false statement test.  I couldn't do said
> tests, the visual ones, at a mental health center, but I did do a
> clinical interview.  Guess wht?  There was no cognitive impairment found
> through the tests we did, though limited in scope.  Therefore, Nick
> having littel vision might have been found to be "cognitively impaired"
> due to the visual nature of the test.  I don't know for sure, but it's a
> possibility.  The group home did the confiscations because they felt
> Nick was talking to robots or something from what I've been told.
> That's probably gonna answer questions.  I'm sorry, but I"ve been
> accused of doing the same thing, but my justification is that blind
> folks are scattered across the country.  I"m sorry, those of us in rural
> towns can probably empathize with this statement.
> Beth
>
> On 1/17/2015 6:09 AM, justin williams via Faith-talk wrote:
>> Valid, but yes.  However, done in poor taste upon the heels of extreme
>> rudeness.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Faith-talk [mailto:faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>> Debby
>> Phillips via Faith-talk
>> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 9:52 PM
>> To: Andrew; Faith-talk, for the discussion of faith and religion;
>> joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com; faith-talk at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] some updates on Nick, and my day summarized
>>
>> Andrew, there are always two sides to issues.  None of us, except maybe
>> the
>> people DIRECTLY involved know both sides.  Sorry, but
>> this is a valid comment, whether RJ is a pastor or not.
>> Blessings,    Debby
>>
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