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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello again.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Why did they say they couldn't serve you? I mean,
if you have a combination of hearing and vision loss, on what grounds would they
say they can't help you? Something doesn't seem right.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>As I understand it, HKNC did have an SSP program in
the area until funding to help run it fell apart, and then the program had
to be discontinued.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Scott</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
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<A title=bdummette@aol.com href="mailto:bdummette@aol.com">Bdummette</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=scottdavert@gmail.com
href="mailto:scottdavert@gmail.com">scottdavert@gmail.com</A> ; <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 07, 2011 9:35
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [nfb-db] DeafBlind in
Flushing</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT size=5>HI Scott,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5>Thank you for your response,yes! I would like to start a
group ssp here in flushing because there is a need here,I have a few that live
near, and I would like to have one as well, I am setting up a small business,
and I would like for an ssp program to be part of it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5>I would like to explain what I meant, when I said HKNC doe's
not understand the full meaning of DeafBlindness,, I have a rare disorder that
is leading to my loosing my sight and hearing( NARP) neuropathy retenitis
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5>primatosa, and I have nerve damage, and that is the reason
for my nerve Deafness, and I am legally Blind, I present this to HKNC and I"m
told that</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5>we cannot serve you, and my Doctors wrote letters for me,
and prescription</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5>In order to understand DeafBlind, you must think outside the
box, and what</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5>else can be causing it, it is an invisable disability and
you will be amazed at</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5>the way a person functions if they lived with it all their
lives.</FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original
Message-----<BR>From: Scott Davert <scottdavert@gmail.com><BR>To: NFB
Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List <nfb-db@nfbnet.org><BR>Sent: Sun, Sep
4, 2011 10:26 pm<BR>Subject: Re: [nfb-db] DeafBlind in Flushing<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>No, there aren't any extensive SSP services in
New York. We don't even really have an active consumer organization. There is
the deaf-blind group of NYC and Long Island, but they don't have formal
gatherings. It's more a social group than anything. I agree, HK should be more
actively involved in forming an SSP program. I don't set something more up
myself because of my active involvement with AADB, my job, and I'm considering
going back for another masters.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>When you say accepting what it means to be
deaf-blind, what do you mean?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Scott</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=bdummette@aol.com href="mailto:bdummette@aol.com">Bdummette</A>
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Sunday, September 04, 2011 6:47 PM</DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"><B>Subject:</B>
[nfb-db] DeafBlind in Flushing</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR></DIV><FONT color=black size=2
face=arial><FONT size=5 face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">I was reading your
post and I am just a little confused, there arent ssp's here in new york If
'm wrong, please tell me, and also, I am DeafBlind myself and having an
extremely hard time with the HKNC accepting what it means to be deafblind, I
would like to converrsate with you further on this matter.</FONT><BR><BR>
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