Audism Free America
reflects back on the past 5 years
AFA began in 2009 – to see that year in review go to: http://audismfreeamerica.blogspot.com/2014/02/happy-5th-anniversary-afa.html
AFA alerted the community about Clarke school removing the
Deaf in its name –
Clarke School for the Deaf changed to
the Center for Oral Education to Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech
We shared information on our video
meeting with Nancy Bloch NAD CEO and we issued a Wake Up Call to the NAD. See http://audismfreeamerica.blogspot.com/2010/04/afa-urges-nad-wake-up-action.html
and later we put forth five questions about audism to each of the finalists for
NAD CEO.
We actively opposed AB 2072 – a bill in
California that later was vetoed by the Governor.
We provided a list of resources on
audism and linguicism.
We shared our concerns with the
community and wrote a letter to the Judge about a Deaf father being
court-ordered to force his Deaf daughter to wear her cochlear implants all her
waking hours even if they were causing her discomfort or she wanted to have
them off or a while.
We revisited our 3 demands to AG Bell
Association – which are still valid and need to be addressed by AGBAD.
We informed the community about fines
and lawsuits against Cochlear Americas and Advanced Bionics.
We sent a letter to NTID President
Search Committee identifying the qualities desired for the next president of
NTID.
We expressed our grave concerns about
the unjust killing of Native-American Deaf woodcarver, John T. Williams by a
Seattle police officer.
We were involved in advocating for the
ICED to rescind the ICED Milan 1880 resolutions and we received a response from
the ICED 2010.
excerpt from letter – to see full
letter go to http://audismfreeamerica.blogspot.com/2010/07/iceds-reply-to-afa-re-apology-and-our.html
We issued a PR web on the Historic
Announcement Rejecting the Exclusion of Sign Language in Deaf Education http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/07/prweb4295374.htm
