Assisting People with Disabilities for over 27 years! Winter 2007, Volume 6
For a copy of the newsletter, please call 516-796-0144 or e-mail us at: licil@aol.com
www.deafCensus.org has a new Internet service offering a carefully compiled database of deaf and hearing loss related organizations. To date, deafCensus has compiled data on over 7,400 organizations, service agencies and community resources via available public information and web sites.
Here are some interesting facts: Did you know that there are about 440 interpreting agencies in the United States? If you are deaf and want to learn to scuba dive, there are 2 deaf scuba diving schools in the nation. Do you want to travel to a foreign country? There are 14 travel agencies that cater to deaf clientele and there are 9 online dating services for deaf and hard of hearing people. deafCensus is the only website offering a Google map with organization markers, including state and/or county boundary lines. Visit their website today.
GOOD BUZZ ON…
“Great Transfer Boards”
Advertised as great transfer boards, Patti K. from Long Beach thinks they are the “greatest transfer boards.” “I have been a wheelchair user for fifty years and have been using transfer boards since I was sixteen years old and these boards from G & B Manufacturing are clearly the best I have ever used.”
Patti tells us the transfer boards are made of 3/8” baltic birch plywood and are smooth on both sides. The best features are that they are light weight and very strong and she feels they have aided her in maintaining her independence. For more information call G & B Manufacturing at 970-669-5408.
There is also good buzz on the “Closed Catheter” System for intermittent catheter users. These sterile, latex free catheters are easy to use and delivered right to your door. No need to wash and re-use catheters and risking infections. If this product is of interest to you, find out what the buzz is all about and call Summit Express Medical Supply at 1-888-269-6605.
TRAINING & JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIFIC DISABILITIES
MRS. SUSAN FEIFER (CSW), Director of Vocational Services at the BUSINESS &
CAREER TRAINING CENTER of The Rehabilitation Institute (TRI), is presently offering persons with emotional, physical, cognitive, hearing and substance abuse difficulties job training and job placement in:
· Computerized Office Technology
· Graphic Design/Desk Top Publishing
· Computerized Record/Book Keeping
· Inventory Control
· Mouse Certification
· Food Service
· Building Maintenance
· Packaging and Assembly
Ms. Feifer’s phone number is 516-741-2010.
THE IMPOSSIBLY JOYFUL LIBRARY
Imagine a library in which every single book deals with disabilities, illnesses and accidents, and yet is uplifting and empowering–even downright joyful.
Sound nonsensical? Soon you will be able to visit the very real LICIL LIBRARY, a brand new, pleasant, reading room at the Long Island Center for Independent Living, Inc.
Recently established, the LICIL LIBRARY’s shelves contain, if not everything on the subject of what it’s like to live with a disability, then
certainly a very relevant archive that includes virtually all the
information about the reality of having a physical, cognitive, sensory, psychiatric or other kind of disability.
In a nutshell, THE LICIL LIBRARY sheds light on the reality of disabilities and thereby literally empowers readers to understand and improve–or help someone else understand and improve–life with a disability.
You’ll be reading more about this remarkably sumptuous library over the coming months. Planning for a spring opening, you will be able to borrow books to take home, read in the
library and even attend special group reading and discussion
sessions. And yes, it’s free!
You can also contribute books (or money) to the library so that its shelves can boast even more knowledge and pleasure.
Coming Soon!