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Originally Posted by pek1
I think that the days of being nice are pretty much over and us hoh/deaf's are going to have to be forceful in our assertions.
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Indeed. I just had a bout with my former university when they initially refused to provide an interpreter for my fiancee at my sister's graduation. I wrote them a letter pointing out Section 504 and a few court cases that specify any university that gets federal funds through gov't loans to the university's students counts as the school getting federal funding directly (it was a private school). After some hemming and hawing, they finally got a 'terp.