[nabs-l] update on rehab affairs

[Beth Taurasi]

On 8/27/2013 5:58 PM, Joshua Lester wrote:
> Beth, why is your message getting to the bottom of the E-Mail again?
> Thanks, Joshua
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> From: nabs-l [nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Beth Taurasi [denverqueen1107 at comcast.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 6:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] update on rehab affairs
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> On 8/27/2013 5:44 PM, Dave Webster wrote:
>> Hey beth my name is Dave.  This is unrelated but you're from Colorado.  I
>> have some friends in Colorado.  Todd and Lealia Struve.  Do you know them?
>> Maybe they could help you.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Beth Taurasi
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 4:41 PM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: [nabs-l] update on rehab affairs
>>
>> Hey you all, this is a brief update as nothing much has happened in the saga
>> of me and Rehab.
>> I have contacted Client Assistance program rep Anna French, if any
>> Coloradoans have known who she was.  Or is.  Sorry about the miswording
>> there.  I contacted Anna French twice and left two messages, and have
>> contacts else where and around the U.S. I can reach, but it seems none of my
>> contacts will get back to me.  Shoot, I don't know what to do next.  I think
>> I'm going to see about resolving the issue like this, see if anyone has any
>> ideas for this:
>> 1. The counselor must be changed.
>> 2. The services must be provided and compensatory funds must be provided for
>> all technological stuff I am asking for, no matter the plans.
>> 3. A plan must be written up, no wait list, nothing.  And in this plan, we
>> need to do an employment goal of computers and stuff, like web design,
>> networking, IT basically.  I want to get an IT certification from CISCO, so
>> they should ideally pay for something accessible and not something that
>> would require too much paying in advance accommodations and such.  I'd
>> chosen CISCO Academy of the Visually Impaired because it accommodates blind
>> people and teaches all the skills needed to do Linux and stuff, networking
>> and the like.
>> 3. Any psychological evaluations must be carefully mmonitored and if a
>> racial profiling like that which occurred in 2011, in which the doc wrote
>> that I was pretending to be Arab occurs in the form of, "pretending to be
>> Syrian/Catholic", I will ask that the doc be revoked of his license.  I am
>> already thinking about actions to take against the doc because Richele, my
>> counselor current, has the copy that says I was pretending to be Arab and
>> didn't think to shred and get a copy without the Arab comments.  One more
>> thing in the resolution, if they refuse to put together an employment goal
>> that I write for myself, then I will drop the case with them and sue them
>> for lost wages and compensatory damages related to racial profiling.
>> This may all sound weird, but how does this all sound to the public as a
>> whole?  SHould I go about this?  If they refuse to do as I ask since the
>> social skills group isn't available and since this provider is notorious for
>> being not only white/American biased but sighted and custodially biased, do
>> you think this is good?
>> Thanks you all,
>> Beth Taurasi
>>
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> Oh, ... wait a sec, I've seen them on FB sometimes.  I don't know those
> folks.  Thanks.
> Beth
> P.S. I'm extremely sorry if the topic is not related.  Students should
> know how to navigate the DVR system if college is denied them over and
> over, especially if a doc gets involved.
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I have the most recent on top.  Haha. :)
Beth