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Subject:      Handicap Digest # 2938

                             THE HANDICAP DIGEST

                                 Issue # 2938

                        Wednesday, September 09, 1992

Today's Topics:


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                                  Re: HELP!
                    Re: HR 5450 To repeal ADA, any info?
                          Keyboard/Computer Access
                              Stories and Poems
                         Re: COFFIN-LOWERY SYNDROME
                           Re: Air Travel Booklet
                              AINT LIFE GRAND!
                                 Hello all.
                                SSI increase
                               to: Jude & ALL


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Subject: Re: HELP!
From: Gary.Warren@f5.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Warren)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:382/5 - Health-Link, Austin TX


Also her husband might be able to set up a small typing business.  When
I moved back home to my parents from San Antonio, I got a state in-home
family service grant which paid for a notebook computer and bubble jet
printer.  Since I got the system in June, I've advertised in the
newspaper to type papers and resumes.  I've made a LITTLE bit more than
the $39+/month cost of the classified, which enables me to keep the ad
in the paper.  I hope jobs will pick up once the college students start
getting assigned their term papers this semester.  After all, SOMEONE
has to type them!
The rub to all this is that I can't make too much money, or there goes
my Social Security, SSI, Medicare, et al.  Which really sux the mop,
no?
glw

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Subject: Re: HR 5450 To repeal ADA, any info?
From: Gary.Warren@f5.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Warren)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:382/5 - Health-Link, Austin TX


Greg, when you find out, let US know, please!  A resolution isn't the
same as a bill, but you never know where this will lead.
glw

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Subject: Keyboard/Computer Access
From: Eric.Averink@f99.n244.z1.fidonet.org (Eric Averink)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:244/99 - Steel City NEC, Around Hamilton ON


Hello....  I hardly ever post in this base, but being a disabled BBSer can
get pretty frustrating around this area (southern Ontario).....  I have a
rare neuromuscular disease which limits me to very small movements in my
right hand only....  I access my computer with the Scanning WSKE program
which is a single switch scanning software/hardware package.....  I am
interested in contacting any other individuals who use such scanning
methods to access their computers.....  Also computer user with a similar
condition that uses some other type of equipment, please reply...  Thanks..
____
|EA|
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Subject: Stories and Poems
From: Susan.Blocker@p0.f420.n141.z1.fidonet.org (Susan Blocker)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:141/420.0 - The Handicap News, Shelton CT


Hello everyone my name is Susan Blocker and I am the Sysop of Unique
Connections BBS.  Unique Connections is a BBS for the Physically
Challenged.  Currently Unique Connections is looking for "Enlightening
stories and poems written by the physically Challenged, their family or
friends." Chosen stories or poems will be placed in our monthly
"SpotLight Bulletin Board Section."  So if you have an interesting story
or poem that you'd like to share with others, please feel fre to contact



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Subject: Re: COFFIN-LOWERY SYNDROME
From: Pandora.Nigh@p0.f554.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Pandora Nigh)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:157/554.0 - Analytical Engine B, Willoughby OH


 -=> Quoting Bob Aviles to All <=-

 BA> I have a 3 1/2 year old boy with Coffin-Lowery Syndrome and am
 BA> interested in trading notes re:  development, illnesses, educational
 BA> programs, and anything else that can help him.  If you have a child
 BA> with this syndrome, please respond.

     Bob, I don't have a child with Coffin-Lowery, but maybe I can help by
giving you a few resources that can put you in contact with other parents and
 a support group or society if one exists. The first is NORD, the National
Organization for Rare Disorders Inc. If you write or call them they will can
put you in contact with other parents across the country.
                                NORD
                                P.O. Box 8923
                                100 Rt. 37
                                New Fairfield, CT 06812
                                (203) 746-6518

      You can also access their database through Compuserve.

   The other resource is Exceptional Parent magazine. They do a lot with rare
disorders and also have a readers forum for parent's wishing to contact others
with children having the same disorder.
                               Exceptional Parent
                               P.O. Box 3000, Dept. EP
                               Denville, NJ 07834-9919

   Hope this helps.
                     Pandora

... RAM = Rarely Adequate Memory

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Subject: Re: Air Travel Booklet
From: Pandora.Nigh@p0.f554.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Pandora Nigh)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:157/554.0 - Analytical Engine B, Willoughby OH


     Hi Ron, thanks for the update on Dot's and Uniteds regulations. It is
important to have your own chair between stops and lay over if only to confirm
the fact that your chair has traveled with you. I was lucky enough to have
someone traviling with me twice when I had to change planes and they brought
one of their chairs to the off load area instead of mine. My companion went
down to the field and checked on my chair and once when we were about to take
off he spotted that they left my tricart on the field. The second time they
had never even taken it off the first plane.
   Worse was what happened to a friend of mine a C-5 quad. He boarded at
Cleveland Hopkins Airport for a trip to LA. He had a stop over for a couple of
hours in Denver and opted to stay on the plane. When they hit LAX they unloaded
everyone from the plane and then the pilot came back to talk to him. The pilot
informed him he had a slight problem. His wheelchair was left on the runway in
Cleveland and the plane on take-off ran it over. My friend informed the pilot
that he didn't have a problem the airline did and they had better do something
quick about getting him a chair. The idiots got a tri-cart for him ( probably
thinking they wear doing him a favor). Well as you can imagine a tricart was
really difficult for him to operate. He agreed to take it with the understanding
that another chair would be provided the next day. Well his troubles just would
not end.  He decided to be very brave and bold and give it a shot taking a
stroll down the street around his hotel. He got 6 blocks away and then the
batteries died on the tricart. It took him over an hour to get someone to push
him back to the hotel. Needless to say when he got back there the airline got
one nasty phone call.
   If he had had his chair in Denver he would have known a lot sooner about the
problem with his chair and could possibly made better arangements. Of course
if he had someone to go with him they could have made sure in the first place
that the chair had been loaded.

                                            Pandora
P.S. Now he has a really intresting metal sculpture for his house.

... ARRRRRGGGHHH!!!! ... Tension breaker, had to be done.

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Subject: AINT LIFE GRAND!
From: Vixen@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Vixen)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:203/11 - The Broken Rose BBS, Sacramento CA


Hi,

Well, I have just been notified that my annual Section Eight
assisted housing re-certification is completed and that next month,
I will be allowed to pay another $5.00 on my co-pay. Not a big
thing in and of itself, except perhaps, when considering the
following!

The agency that has been most reliably at my side, lo these many
years, has been the Veterans Administration. I must say, they have
always made sure of where I was and that my disabiity pension came
always on time or even "before" delivery date and every year, I get
my bit of "cost of living" increase. Mind you, it's not a great
deal, but I have always been able to count on it and I do well for
a person living below the poverty line.

These last couple of years, I have also received a small stipend
from SSI and I have been on the Section Eight housing program (And
have a great little place!) for one year tomorrow.

However, each year that V.A. grants me a small cost of living
increase, SSI deducts a like amount from their payment and Section
Eight raises my rent co-pay!

I love the way it works!   In time, simple cost of living increases
shall effectively eliminate first my SSI stipend and eventually, my
Section Eight participation.

Still keepin' the faith!

.                              Vixen

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Subject: Hello all.
From: Russell.Goddard,.Jr.@p0.f650.n107.z1.fidonet.org (Russell Goddard, Jr.)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:107/650.0


I am not sure that this is the right echo to post this, since there are
so many different meanings for the word "disabled".  Ah, what the hey,
here it is:

My name is Russell Goddard, Jr., and I am a 17-year-old hearing impaired
person.  More than 11 years ago I lost most of my hearing in my left ear
due to a severe ear infection.  11 months later I lost some more hearing
in my right ear.  I now wear two behind-the-ear hearing aids.  I am
profoundly deaf, with a 115 dB hearing loss in both ears.

I went from being in the bottom of my 1st grade class to special
education throughout the rest of my elementary school years, to being on
the honor roll in middle school and high school, to being the Senior
Class President.  All while being profoundly deaf, losing hearing every
year as I age.

I hope that there are somebody out here who happens to be like me.  If
not, then I hope that this post might whip up some hope and inspiration
that being profoundly deaf shouldn't stop you cold in your tracks.

 * TLX 1.1 * Deaf? Call 1-800-HEARING for free information.

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Subject: SSI increase
From: Melissa.Mead@f136.n267.z1.fidonet.org (Melissa Mead)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:267/136 - Access BBS, Ballston Spa NY


In this morning's Gazette I saw an article saying that SSI has
proposed raising allwoable assets to $7,000 (from $2,000)/year. Has
anyone else heard more about this?  Missy

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Subject: to: Jude & ALL
From: Bruce.Couper@p0.f401.n229.z1.fidonet.org (Bruce Couper)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:229/401.0 - The Connection HST!, Oshawa ON


My apologies to you Jude and to anyone who read my message to you of a
couple of days back titled "Re: Lightning"; my name did not appear as
author but rather, the name "Ralf".

I never use an alias and didn't mean to this time.  I am still learning
the possible mistakes I can make with the Blue Wave offline mail reader
and this was one of them... I _thought_ I was having it check all areas
for messages from my friend, Ralf, but instead it was assumed that Ralf
was my alias.  <sigh>

I think one day I will be quite expert at all this... 'cause I seem to
be trying every possible mistake!

Ah well... now you know who wrote you and who to yell at if you didn't
like it, Jude.

Take care

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