Hi;
unfortunately lots of people that participate in handihams, particularly
some of their camp programs do need lots of medical assistance. I went to
their California camp several years ago and it was quite an eye opener.
They are providing assistance to disabled people in general not just blind
folks. Maybe you should go sometime and lend a hand.
As for material, I prefer to think of how far we have come rather than how
far we may have to go.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell Shandrow" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.
> Hi Tom,
>
> Benetech is not a medical provider and thus the Bookshare sign up process
> is
> much more reasonable. Handiham isn't, or at least shouldn't be, a medical
> provider either. But I think we've already had this discussion last year
> about the requirements associated with Handiham's being associated with a
> rehabilitation agency and the merits or lack thereof.
>
> I guess different people need different things. I don't need someone to
> take care of me from a medical standpoint when it comes to my
> participation
> in amateur radio, or in about 95 percent of the rest of my life for that
> matter. I just need and want to have greater access to all that my hobby,
> or the things in the rest of my life, has to offer.
>
> I think I can certainly accept and understand more rigorous paperwork
> requirements for activities such as Radio Camp participation, but, even
> then, I'm a big boy and can take care of my self and meet my own medical
> needs. I would attend for the purpose of meeting others and participating
> in the hobby, which is most certainly not medical in nature.
>
> I guess there is a medical and a nonmedical approach to dealing with
> people
> with disabilities and I choose the nonmedical one. If I need medical
> help,
> I see a doctor! Otherwise, I'd prefer that the medical aspects of my
> disability be left out of the equation as much as possible.
>
> In any event, I don't think HIPAA rules demand that Handiham's application
> process be as inaccessible as possible. I suspect there is some room for
> accomodations.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 11:07 AM
> Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.
>
>
>> Darrell, that's a question you'd have to take up with the Federal
>> Government
>> folks. Being a clinician I can tell you that when anything vaguely
>> meedical is
>> involved at a facility paperwork which you would not believe becomes a
>> requirement. The patient/client only sees the tip of what actually goes
>> on but
>> because Handi-Hams is a part of a facility with medical aspects to it
>> there is
>> simply no way to avoid the system as it is. Very specific paperwork is
>> REQUIRED
>> and it must be done in a very SPECIFIC way to meet those requirements.
>> Remember
>> that the U.S. government is exempt from having to comply with the ADA,
>> section
>> 504, etc.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
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