Dan,

I'd first contact The Equal Employment Opportunity coordinator at your
University (some schools have a separate 504 coordinator, but the EEO
coordinator would be a great place to start), and then contact the
Office of Civil Rights in the US Department of Education.  Do you attend
a private or public university?  If it's a public university, the OCR
will be **_very_** interested in this.

When I was in school, the Regional Representative for OCR was on campus
talking to our disabled student's group about what the office was all
about, and I mentioned to her in passing that there were some problems
with wheelchair access in a couple of places.  Within a month the OCR
did a full review of the University's access plan, and had architects
and engineers check out everything that had already been done.

I also don't know what state you live in but you can also contact the
Protection and Advocacy organization in your state.  The national
organization's website is www.napas.org and they have a directory that
should have a link to your state site.

Since you have CP, the counterpart to WIND (who I work for) in your
state, would probably be interested as well.  The website for the
national association for that one is www.aucd.org and they also have a
directory to the state programs.

If your present attorney is unsure of the law in the case, have him/her
check out section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, especially if
it's a public University, and the ADA if it's private.

If you happen to be in the Atlanta area, I could get you in touch with
the regional representative for OCR.  He was my Vocational
Rehabilitation counselor when I was in college.

Are you working with Voc. Rehab.?  If so, your VR counselor might be
able to apply a little pressure that way.

Kendall Corbett
Coordinator of Consumer Activities
Wyoming INstitute for Disabilities -WIND
PO Box 4298
Laramie, WY 82071
(307) 766-2853
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Fischer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 7:11 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Foreign Language

I find it very disciminatory.  Do you know of any disability
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committitee that could make a ruling on my case? -- not neccessarily for
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but even the lawyer thinks I have a strong case but he's unfamiliar with
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field. The University should realize the bad guideline they have
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simply telling them doesn't do any good.

-Dan
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>From: "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Foreign Language
>Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:56:10 -0600
>
>Dan,
>
>So, if you have self-identified, or been identified as a person with a
>disability at your university, you're _required_ to submit petitions of
>the type you mentioned through the Disability Support Services office,
>and people without disabilities are not required to have a "sponsoring"
>organization for petitions?!=A0 That seems just a tad discriminatory to
>me.=A0 I'd think it should be the petitioner's choice whether to have
DSS
>involved in their petition.=A0 Of course, if you've been working with
DSS
>your entire college career, they may have good information to back up
>your petition, but if they're being slow to act, you should be able to
>get a copy of that info, and provide it yourself.
>
>Kendall Corbett
>Coordinator of Consumer Activities
>Wyoming INstitute for Disabilities -WIND
>PO Box 4298
>Laramie, WY 82071
>(307) 766-2853
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