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Subject: Re: Greetings
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Date: 20 Nov 90 04:16:07 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Ann I am also familiar as you know with RTID and of course the fabulous 
Dr Norman Coombs. You know that pretty well. I know the academy at 
Gally has two grad from a local high here and is remarkably good for 
the "above average academy" student.         
 
The Gallaudet board did a couple interesting things also that most 
people are not aware of als. The national Center for Law and the Deaf 
has done a remarkable job of keeping the civil rights of hearing 
impaired in order. Their law school graduated 9 top US Dept of Justice 
lawyers also and has done an array of wonderful things with US Justice 
in the past. Like they wrote up an instrument called "The 
Victim/Witness Program for the Handicapped" with a law student of Gally 
named Myri Per-Lee. Myri has her law degree now and is practicing in 
the Federal district court in Washington DC! Myri is deaf!
 
I know also that Clara barto is their tech person. I respect her 
highly. She is also trying to push an idea that sign language should be 
an accreddited course of LANGUAGE at Universities as an option to a 
romance or slavic language course. Her idea is that there may well be 
more people around who would sign in the evryday environments and 
provide more access globally to the 13 million deaf and hearing 
impaired of the country. 
 
Please be well. I am happy to say hi online again.
 
Tzippy

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