05-08-2012, 09:59 PM
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Mind getting back on topic guys?  Not trying to be rude.
Courthouse News Service
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Georgia's Treatment of Deaf Adults Violates ADA
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He also rejected Georgia's argument that the ADA did not require it to provide ASL-fluent practitioners, finding that the state had "failed to rebut plaintiffs' showing that communication between deaf patients and hearing practitioners, aided by interpreters, is not equal to communication between hearing patients and hearing practitioners."
Belton and Erickson had proven that the state's failure to reimburse health care providers for interpreting services, a "necessary ingredient of the state's provision of mental health care services to deaf consumers," discouraged practitioners from serving deaf patients, according to the ruling.
Story noted that the extra 5 percent payment from the state looked "more like a profit margin" than an effort to reimburse providers for interpreter services.
He declined to rule on the funding issue, noting that, since the state had failed to provide deaf people with equal access to its services, the level of funding was not material.
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