[nabs-l] update on rehab affairs

Beth Taurasi denverqueen1107 at comcast.net
Wed Aug 28 02:01:53 UTC 2013


On 8/27/2013 7:49 PM, justin williams wrote:
> Nothing in this message that I could see.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Beth Taurasi
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] update on rehab affairs
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> On 8/27/2013 7:04 PM, justin williams wrote:
>> 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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> I'll get a file of the report itself, so I can write a summary in my own
> words covering the whole thing.
> Beth
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Oops.  Idk what happened. I'll do a report summary.
Beth




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