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from an intermediate
educational agency. The M residential schools, as I * understand, are intermediate agencies and are available to be contracted.
Parents of deaf children should contact the school below which is nearest to them if their local schools have no appropriate educational program to meet the needs of their child. Superintendent Joe R. Shinpaugh The Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind East Beverley Street Staunton, Virginia 24401 Superintendent William J McConnell The Virginia School at Hampton 700 Shell Road Hampton, Virginia 23661
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act touches on nearly every area of life, not just education.
I would ask of persons who are seeking ways to implement the law within their communities, ‘‘Are you receiving input from the deaf adults who live in your state, city, county, town?”
I ask this because, traditionally, deaf persons have been treated as second class citizens. They don’t hear the radio or television; thus, they lack equal access to information. They are not included in public events for lack of available interpreters.
For too long, deaf adults have lacked influence on policy development.
In brief, a deaf person has not had enough opportunity to make decisions which affect his life and the lives of other deaf persons.
Decisions are too often made for him. There have been many meetings to discuss the health, education, or welfare of deaf people where no deaf persons were present with interpreters to allow them full participation.
Let’s work together to remedy this situation.
FRED P. YATES, JR.
Executive Secretary
Shower
Held
Mrs. Lucille Cameron and Miss Diane DeBergh were hostesses for a stork shower in honor of Mrs. Robert H. Jenkins.
Present were Mrs. Louise Bradley and Shari of Mitchells, Mrs. Carol Jenkins and Tammy of Culpeper, Mrs. Elizabeth, Miss Nancy Buntin, Miss Karen Kuhn, Mrs. Dorothy White, all of Washington, Mfs. Charlotte Nichols, Flint Hill, Mrs. Elizabeth Streagle and Shannon of Amissville, Mrs. Iris Beebe of Castleton, Mrs. Mary Quaintance, Mrs. Monica Sisk and Miss Sharon Walker of Sperryville.
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