[nabs-l] update on rehab affairs

[justin williams]

I'm not sure about how to handle that other than to file a claim.  Write
averything up as a report in your own words so you can at least have
reference to that. 

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Beth Taurasi
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 7:52 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] update on rehab affairs

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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