Hi Steve,

My experience has been that, with organizations like NLS, they will do what
they can to help with completing their application process if you are unable
to read print.  After all, isn't that why the services are being requested
in the first place?  I am really just asking that Handiham insure that it is
equally as accessible to people who are blind.  I can't read print, and
Handiham is a disability organization, so I'm not paying my reader to read
any print coming from that organization.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: New Handi-Ham Paperwork


> Lou,
> I think what you've pointed out is well and good, so far as your decision
to
> join or not to join Handi-hams is concerned.
>
> As for accessible materials, I am speculating here.  But, my guess is that
if
> you were to become a new client of the NLS or RFBD now, you would probably
> have to go through a similar certiification procedure.  You would need
medical
> verification that you had a covered disability, be it dyslexia, visual
> impairment, or some other condition which prohibits you from reading
print.
>
> To paraphrase our good friend, William Shakespeare:
> "The fault, dear Harvey and Lou, is not in Handi-Hams, But in our laws,
that
> we are underlings."  And, as underlings, all those entities who are
required
> to get certification for those claiming disabilities, one of those
> requirements is the HIPAA, which although burdensome to us, also gives us
> protections as to how our inner-most private information can be disclosed.
>
> Steve, K8SP