Christine,

The CP group _can_ do something, and writing letters to our members of
Congress, as you've suggested, is a very good place to start.  Also meet
with your members of Congress when they're in their home district to put a
"face" on the concerns you have.  I belong to another list that deals with
CP issues that I'll post this to.  During the campaign, I worked with
Obama's disability policy group a litttle, and my wife worked with Clinton's
campaign until the nomination was decided, so the Administration is willing
to listen.

One thing that I'd like to encourage is a greater emphasis on issues related
to disability and aging, as those of us with disabilities tend to feel the
effects of aging sooner than people without disabilities.

There's also a Yahoo group that deals with disability policy that people
might like to check into:

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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Christine Rouse <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>   Can the cp group do something? Writte letters.Do think obhama willl be
> good foor people with people with cp?
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> *From:* [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On
> Behalf Of *Bob Segalman
> *Sent:* Monday, February 02, 2009 6:44 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* The President's stimulus package and the political make-up of
> the disabled community
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> The President's stimulus package contains $200 million for the Independent
> Living Centers nationwide to help make people with disabilities more
> independent. A problem arises because the political stratification of the
> independent living movement.  Disabilities with the most political power
> will likely get the biggest share of that $200 million.  The nature of
> certain disabilities enables them to be better organized and to be allotted
> a far greater proportion of the available resources than their percentage of
> the population would dictate.
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>
> I urge the Obama administration to stipulate that the $200 million will be
> distributed proportionally based on population. My particular concern is for
> the 1-2 million Americans with speech disabilities and their need for such
> things as training to use the national telephone assistance service
> federally mandated for them (see www.speechtospeech.org). They also need a
> national network of trained interpreters (called re-voicers)who can help
> others understand garbbled speech in face to face situation such as medical
> and business appointments. The deaf population was able to establish such an
> interpreter network because of their superior political organization.
>
> The Obama Administration must protect those segments of the disabled
> population that cannot adequately represent themselves in the distribution
> of this $200 million.
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> Bob
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> Bob Segalman, Ph.D., Sc.D. (Hon.), Founder of Speech-to-Speech
> President, Speech Communications Assistance by Telephone, Inc.
> 515 P Street, #403; Sacramento, CA 95814
> Call 1-888-877-5302 and then ask for me at 916-448-5517
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Kendall

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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