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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>Hello Keitei,</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>This is very admirable of you to have a heart to bring
the deaf, deaf-blind out of the obscurity and into the light. Those who
have lived the life can tell you of their discriminations and isolation among
others with either blindness or deafness. Some blind think the deaf=blind
do not belong with their group and some deaf associations think that the
deaf-blind don't belong with them. It's not as black and white as you may
think. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>The president of the NFB Deaf-Blind Division's wife
Arlene Naulty told some of us that some total deaf-blind have been kept isolate
by their own families. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>It is a start in a positive direction. And there
should be more to get the blind or deaf communities to accept the deaf-blind
into their communities.</FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>Best Regards</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>Cheri Fields</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 2/20/2014 5:42:18 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
kekiangeles111@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Hello
Cheri and all,<BR><BR>I am not deaf blind. I am just blind, and I like talking
with deaf blind people and hearing their stories. Meeting a few deaf
blind people myself, I know that there is a range, but I do not want to drown
out someone else's voice. I do not know what it is like to be deaf blind, but
I am an ally. For me, I accept deaf blind people as people, and I would like
others to know about the deaf blind community so that they can become allies
as well.<BR><BR>Four the Deaf Inclusion Training, I want there to also be a
critical dialogue about deaf blindness as well that more people are aware. I
write to this list so that I an bring many voices of the deaf blind to a
training so that they may be heard as well.part of the reason for the training
is to bring awareness to some of the difficulties that deaf and deaf blind
people face and that others can learn about the struggles and reach out their
hands and offer help.<BR><BR>Best,<BR><BR>Keitei Colton<BR><BR><BR>> On 20
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<BR>> Message: 1<BR>> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:07:02 -0800
(PST)<BR>> From: Tracie Inman <tracieinman@yahoo.com><BR>> To:
"nfb-db@nfbnet.org" <nfb-db@nfbnet.org><BR>> Subject: [nfb-db] nfb-db
content of digest<BR>> Message-ID:<BR>>
<1392811622.23061.YahooMailNeo@web120705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com><BR>>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<BR>> <BR>> Date: Feb. 18,
2014<BR>> ?<BR>> Attention! Attention! Attention!<BR>> ?<BR>>
Brief Summary:<BR>> ?<BR>> Hi, my name is Cheryl R. Brown, I am a
National Representative of the NY Deaf-Blind Division of the NFB. Yes, I need
you that right you who represent of all areas New York State and New York City
as well as others county of New York State. JOIN me in forming a small
committees of the NY Deaf-Blind??of the National Federation of the Blind.
Please stand up for Deaf-Blind concern. I need you such as NFB Deaf-Blind
Group, American Deaf Blind Association, and others Deaf-Blind Group can WORK
together to learn how ?I Can Connect Program? may help you, establish and to
get support for SSP (Service Support Provider, and advocate for Deaf-Blind
issues. Unified together let the community know we Deaf-Blind are active. I am
looking for any person who want to get involve in the committee??position as
following:<BR>> ?<BR>> First Vice President<BR>> Second Vice
President<BR>> Secretary<BR>> Secretary of the Treasure<BR>>
?<BR>> 5 Board Members:<BR>> ?<BR>> First Board: ?I Can Connect
Program?<BR>> Second Board SSP<BR>> Third Board: Deaf-Blind
Concerns<BR>> Fourth Board: Seminar and guest speaker<BR>> Fifth Board:
Fund Raiser<BR>> ?<BR>> Please email if you want to be apart of the NY
Deaf-Blind Committees of the NFB. I really need you, please. We can make a
different.<BR>> ?<BR>> The selection will be a (First Come First Serve
basis). If more than one person express interest in the position above then I
will put each person name on a paper folded in square. Place name in jar with
5 blank paper in folded in square in jar. I will have a sighted-person will
help me. I will take out the first name that????appear for that position that
you express.??The position will be held for 2 years until reelection . Please
JOIN me in making this happening. I need you!<BR>> ?<BR>> At the moment,
I will be holding??the President position. Please, join me in building this
small New York committees.<BR>> ?<BR>> Contact:<BR>> Cheryl R.
Brown<BR>> ?<BR>> Home Phone Numbers: (631) 952-0989<BR>> Give a
messages and speak clearly and leave a brief messages.<BR>> ?<BR>>
e-mail:?cheryl9rb@gmail.com<BR>> ?<BR>> Important Point:<BR>>
?<BR>> Please put your full name and full E-mail address in the body of the
E-mail. So, I can E-mail back to you. I also need your full name and your
home/apt. address, and phone numbers. I really appreciate that very
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:25:23 -0700<BR>> From: Keitei Colton
<kekiangeles111@gmail.com><BR>> To: "nfb-db@nfbnet.org"
<nfb-db@nfbnet.org><BR>> Subject: [nfb-db] Deaf Inclusion
Training<BR>> Message-ID:
<0471A9BD-7C8C-48F0-A0BB-30A851ED0429@gmail.com><BR>> Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=us-ascii<BR>> <BR>> Hello all,<BR>>
<BR>> I am putting on a presentation/training for a few student groups at
the University of Utah. I am wanting to include Deaf-Blind perspectives to
help with the presentation/training. Could anyone help me? Some
questions that I would like to share answers for at the presentation/training
are as following:<BR>> <BR>> 1. Is there a Deaf-Blind community?<BR>>
2. What are some methods of communicating with a Deaf-blind person?<BR>> 3.
What is tactile sign language?<BR>> 4. Is Braille helpful?<BR>> 5. Did
you learn ASL as your first language?<BR>> 6. What are some of the
struggles that you personally face?<BR>> 7. How can someone best help
you?<BR>> <BR>> If you want to help, please email me with any
suggestions/tips and answer the questions to the questions from your personal
experience.<BR>> <BR>> Best,<BR>> <BR>> Keitei Colton<BR>>
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3<BR>> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 01:49:17 -0500 (EST)<BR>> From:
Cherifields@aol.com<BR>> To: nfb-db@nfbnet.org<BR>> Subject: [nfb-db]
nfb-db deaf inclusion<BR>> Message-ID:
<be109.e95649f.4036ff6d@aol.com><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"<BR>> <BR>> Hello Keitei,<BR>> <BR>> If you are
considered deaf-blind, then you must know that not all <BR>>
deaf-blind are not all deaf-blind. The term is loosely used to include
all degrees <BR>> of persons with hearing and vision loss.
Those of us who are considered <BR>> blind have varying degrees of
blindness. And the same goes for deafness. <BR>> <BR>>
Obviously, if you could not hear at birth, you would most likely have
been <BR>> educated in the ASL. If you are educated with the
deaf environment you are <BR>> better served with the deaf culture.
If you are raised with the blind <BR>> environment you will most
likely stay with the hearing community, even if you <BR>> use
ASL. <BR>> <BR>> The deaf-blind who are tactile only, have other
organizations that serve <BR>> them. This is primarily their
community. Since there are not a large <BR>> enough number in
any one location, they will involved themselves with <BR>>
associations that meet their needs. <BR>> The reality is, will
society accept and include the deaf-blind? How can <BR>> we
expect society to accept deaf-blind if as a whole the blind community
<BR>> does not accept them or the deaf does not accept them?
Inclusion must come <BR>> from those who are NOT deaf-blind.
And not the other way around. <BR>> <BR>> With the advent of new
technology and education changing to include rather <BR>> than
exclude society will change as we integrate disabilities. Just as
<BR>> years ago the children with disabilities were all segregated
in their own <BR>> disability. This would make it harder for
others without those disabilities <BR>> to accept them.
<BR>> <BR>> Best Regards<BR>> <BR>> Cheri Fields<BR>>
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