[nabs-l] update on rehab affairs

[Suzanne Germano]

I filed an official appeal that got thier attention and suddenly what I
requested was not against policy.

On Tuesday, August 27, 2013, Beth Taurasi wrote:

> 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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