Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Deaf Patients To Doctors - 'Sign or Be Sued'

Deaf Patients To Doctors - 'Sign or Be Sued': "The Valley Association of Independent Living said they've received countless complaints from deaf patients that some doctors are not providing sign language interpreters for medical visits."

Deaf file suit against doctors, state agency on anniversary of disability law

Interesting article

http://www.themonitor.com/news/file-41189-agency-law.html

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Valley-ICAN on FACEBOOK

Members from the Valley-ICAN addictions committee decided it would be a great idea to inform the public/colleagues on upcoming DRC/Valley-ICAN events so we created a facebook page.
Feel free to add pictures or whatever may be relevant...



http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/valley.ican?ref=profile

Please email me so I can forward you the log in information.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

FCC Threatens Future of VRS

Much is being said about the FCC's new funding proposal for VRS. Here's a recent link to get you up to speed: DeafNetwork's article highlighting the issue caused by the FCC's new VRS funding proposal.

The video below explains what effect the funding cuts may have.  The video is in ASL with excellent English captions.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Last DRC Meeting for Spring 2010


Goodbye for some..  Just the beginning for others...