[nabs-l] update on rehab affairs

[Beth Taurasi]

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