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Subject:      Handicap Digest # 2950

                             THE HANDICAP DIGEST

                                 Issue # 2950

                          Tuesday, October 06, 1992

Today's Topics:


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                             Sign Language Fonts
                   Newspaper for people with disabilities
                        Re: Sign Language In England
            Medical Marijuana - Libertarian Position Paper (long)
                       Spina Bifida Hot Line to World
                     Re: Help from parents and teachers
                   Help in finding a Voice Response System
                             speech recognition
                          Spina Bifida Association


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Subject: Sign Language Fonts
From: DDZ@PSUVM.PSU.EDU (Carolyn Dudas)
Organization: Penn State University

Here are two sources for sign language fonts for PC users:
  Reasonable Solutions
  1221 Disk Drive
  Medford, OR  97501-6639
    800-876-3475 (orders)
    503-776-5777 (information)
  Product:  True Type Fonts, Vol. 6  (Windows)  or
            ATM Fonts, Vol. 6  (Windows)


  Power Up!
  P.O. Box 7600
  San Mateo, CA  94403-7600
    800-851-2917
  Product:  Emulaser





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Subject: Newspaper for people with disabilities
From: salin@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JoAnn Salin)
Organization:  University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
Status: RO


	I recently learned about a newspaper for people with
disabilites called NATIONAL FOCUS.  I would like to subscribe to it,
but I don't know the address for the newspaper or the city where it is
published.

	If anyone has this information, I would appreciate your
providing it for me.

				Thank you,  JoAnn S.




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Subject: Re: Sign Language In England
From: /PN=BRENDA.L.MONENE/O=DEAFTEK/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com (Brenda
 Monene)

 om>

Paul...tried to send this as a personal memo, but it bounced back.

Brenda


Forwarded message:


Posted: Tue, Sep 29, 1992   7:20 PM EDT              Msg: KGJC-5441-8766
from:   B.MONENE
to:     (c:usa,a:telemail,p:internet,
        "rfc-822":<galaxy.nsc.com(b)pad(a)voder.pa.dec.com>)
CC:     B.MONENE/DEAFTEK
subj:   SIGN LANGUAGE IN ENGLAND

Hello Paul...sign language in the U.K. (England, Scotland, Wales
and I believe Ireland as well) use BSL (British sign language).
The sign language is similar to ASL (American Sign Language) and
you are correct...they do not use anymore finger spelling that we
do with ASL.  Just as we have various forms of sign language in
this country (SEE, PSE, Cued Speech, etc.) so do the British.
However, if you ask a deaf person about the sign language of deaf
people, he/she will talk to you about ASL as the British person
will talk to you about BSL as being their language.

There are BSL books published.  Best source is the RNID (Royal
National Institute for the Deaf) in London.    Will get you an
address if you want it.

Brenda Monene
International Deaf/Tek, Inc.

/c=us/admd=telemail/o=deaftek/dd.un=b.monene/@sprint.com





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Subject: Medical Marijuana - Libertarian Position Paper (long)
From: 34AEJ7D@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu (Bill Gorman)

The attached is forwarded from elsewhere for those on
misc.handicap, L-HCAP, and the various echoes who have been, or are
currently, concerned with Bush's politikking with medical matters.

W. K. Gorman
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|Newsgroups: nptn.campaign92.morrou-lord
|Path: cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu!americast.com!nptn.org!tmg
|from: tmg@nptn.org (Tom Grundner)
|subject: MARIJUANA BAN: News Release - 3/11/92
|Message-ID: <1992Sep16.150011.18178@nptn.org>
|Organization: National Public Telecomputing Network
|Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 15:00:11 GMT
|Approved: xx001@nptn.org
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|| LIBERTARIAN PARTY                                       Libertarian Party |
|| Defenders of Liberty           NEWS              1528 Pennsylvania Ave SE |
||                                ----                  Washington, DC 20003 |
||                                                              202-543-1988 |
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|For immediate release.                             FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
|11 March 1992                  Gary Johnson, LP Media Relations: 512-441-6378
|                                           Marrou/Lord Campaign: 702-434-6362
|
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|  LIBERTARIAN DOCTOR WARNS: BAN ON MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA HARMS PATIENTS
|
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|     PHILADELPHIA -- Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate Dr. Nancy
|Lord said Wednesday (March 11) while campaigning in Pennsylvania that the
|Bush Administration's decision to halt distribution of marijuana for medical
|purposes was "cruel grandstanding."
|
|     Referring to Tim Braun, a 44-year-old AIDS patient in Minneapolis who
|smokes marijuana to reduce his nausea and vomiting, Dr. Lord said, "The
|decision to cut off marijuana is a decision to inflict unnecessary pain and
|suffering -- needless torture -- on Tim Braun."  Mr. Braun's situation was
|detailed in a March 10 Associated Press dispatch.
|
|     "The Bush administration's decision is cruel, because people suffering
|from AIDS, cancer, or glaucoma, and their doctors, should be able to choose
|the therapy they think is best," said Dr. Lord, a medical doctor who has
|conducted policy research for the Drug Policy Foundation in Washington, D.C.
|
|     Dr. Lord said that, based on the scientific literature on medical uses
|of smoked marijuana, "In some cases, marijuana is the best alternative as
|therapy. It is merciless medievalism to bar that alternative."
|
|     Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services, decided
|last week to bar marijuana for any additional patients. "Dr. Sullivan is a
|Bush appointee. He must carry out the drug-scapegoating political agenda of
|the Bush administration or be fired," Dr. Lord pointed out.
|
|     "The political anti-drug crusade of both the Republicans and the
|Democrats has trampled medical common sense. For example, the Food and Drug
|Administration has refused to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana although
|the FDA's own administrative law judge recommended allowing such
|prescriptions," Dr. Lord observed.
|
|     "I am a Libertarian who favors private enterprise. So, I am against the
|Public Health Service providing marijuana to patients.  Marijuana should be
|something you can buy at your pharmacy or liquor store. It should not be a
|political football of socialized medicine," she added.
|
|     Dr. Lord, 40, a medical doctor and an attorney, lives in Atlanta,
|Georgia. She and her Presidential running mate, former Alaska State
|Representative Andre Marrou, 53, expect to be on the ballot in November in
|all 50 states and the District of Columbia. America's third largest party,
|the Libertarian Party stands for a deregulated economy, civil liberties, and
|a foreign policy of nonintervention. Libertarians believe "That government
|is best which governs least."
|
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|                                  [END]
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Subject: Spina Bifida Hot Line to World
From: nicolaides@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Joe Nicolaides)

The Greater Cleveland Spina Bifida Association of Cleveland, Ohio
is looking for contacts per Spina Bifida. Our membership is both
parents of children with Spina Bifida, adults w/ spina bifida and
medical professionals. Im looking for a hot line with the world to
share info and possible pen pals to our spina bifida members.
Mail can be send either over the net or to our P.O Box.

Mailing address is

Greater Cleveland Spina Bifida Association
P.O Box 534
Cleveland, Ohio
          44107


                      Joe Nicolaides
                        President
                     Greater Cleveland
                     Spina Bifida Association





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Subject: Re: Help from parents and teachers
From: nff2355@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil (Dale Pennington)
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus


From article <24543@handicap.news>, by GRS00010@appstate.edu (Shannon Adams):
> Index Number: 24543
>
> 	I am doing a paper on family involvement in the IFSP and IEP
> processes.  I would appreciate any response from parents or teachers
> with children who have disabilities.
>
     Cecilia,

     Below are your original questions with my answers as a parent.

> If you are a parent, what is the age of your child?  18
>
> Do you feel that professionals who develop your child's IFSP or IEP
> involve you in the process?  Yes.  We are always asked to
       participate and are given the option of personal interview or
       phone conference.
>
> Is your opinion equally valued?  No, I don't believe so.  This is
       not always apparrent at the conference, but rather is demonstrated
       when the things that are agreed to are not carried out.

> In what ways are you involved?  We are invited to participate in
       an IEP conference.  There is no followup unless we request
       additional meetings.

     If you'd like any further input contact me at the e-mail
     address below.

     Dale Pennington
     Internet:  dpennington@dsac.dla.mil





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Subject: Help in finding a Voice Response System
From: cigs13@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (Debbie Jans)
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster

In Britain there are some specialist centres/services providing
help and information for just such problems.  Information can be
sought also through the IBM Computability Centre (in Warwick,
England, near Coventry).  I believe there is a software program
from the US called Voice Print which recognizes spoken words and
then types them on screen.  I can possibly get more information on
this next week.

(Posted by A. Gilinsky, Centre for Law, Computers & Technology at
Strathclyde University on behalf of)

Debbie Jans, M.A., C.C.C., Senior Speech and Language Therapist

(Poster's Note:  Ms. Jans will be employed to set up and manage a
new Centre for Augmentative Communication from 12 October in the
Edinburgh area.)








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Subject: speech recognition
From: roberts@slc.paramax.com (Doug Roberts)
Organization: Unisys, Salt Lake City, Utah


Speech Recognition: is anybody out there experimenting
with this technology on their home computer? I know
that speech recognition has a long way to go yet, but
perhaps there are some rudimentary forms that would be
useful, especially for the hearing impaired, like myself.

If there were a system that did nothing more than recognize
individually pronounced characters, it would help me
on the phone a lot. So that when someone starts spelling
their name to me, or giving a number, it would show up
on my pc screen. What is available for just that?

Thanks.

douglas j. roberts

roberts@slc.unisys.com
  or, soon to be:
roberts@slc.paramax.com






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Subject: Spina Bifida Association
From: NICOLAIDES@ALF.CS.HH.AB.COM (Joe Nicolaides)

The Greater Cleveland Spina Bifida Association is interested in
making contact with other support groups, individuals born with spina
bifida and parents (and family members) of children. Young adults and
parents in our group are interested in setting up a network for collecting
and sharing info. Our mailing address is:

The Greater Cleveland Spina Bifida Association
P.O Box 534
Edgewater Branch
Cleveland, Ohio  44107

Mail messages can also be mailed per the network.



                                  Joe Nicolaides
                                    President
                              The Greater Cleveland
                              Spina Bifida Association





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