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  1. 1
    Name: Suzanne Garcia-Lightbourn on Dec 1, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Tony Barraza on Dec 3, 2004
    State: MD
    Country: US
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    Name: Folami Ford on Dec 3, 2004
    State: MD
    Country: US
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    Name: Emilia Lorenti on Dec 3, 2004
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: I sent my letter to Angela Jones
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    Name: Melanie Girshick on Dec 3, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: RID is proud of the fact that their members provide communication access on a daily basis. By not providing Spanish Interpreters we are actually creating a language barrier. I went to the PR RID Conference and going to a tri-lingual conference was an amazing experience and one that should be happening more often.
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    Name: Rafael Trevino on Dec 3, 2004
    State: FL
    Country: US
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    Name: Melanie Peach on Dec 3, 2004
    State: FL
    Country: US
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    Name: Jean Plant on Dec 4, 2004
    State: GA
    Country: US
    Comments: Please provide Spanish interpreting services for any (even one) of our members who attend the RID conference who need this service. If not, then perhaps Puerto Rico should not be permitted to be a chapter of RID. This seems hypocritical to not provide services to our own members.
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    Name: Nancy Hayes on Dec 4, 2004
    State: AL
    Country: US
    Comments: I wholeheartedly agree with this petition. It is wrong for us to discriminate against our spanish speaking members. As we do with deaf consumers, if one person needs an interpreter to participate, then we must provide that service. If you need to cut back, eliminate either the transliterators or caption service. That seems redundant to me.
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    Name: Lewis Merkin on Dec 4, 2004
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    Name: Vince Powell on Dec 4, 2004
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: If we discontinue Spanish interpretation we are only going backwards and not forward in our changing times. Please include spanish as our third language for the San Antonio conference.
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    Name: Kimberly D on Dec 4, 2004
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    Name: Liz Wolter on Dec 4, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
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    Name: Stephanie Feyne on Dec 4, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
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    Name: AnnE Leahy on Dec 4, 2004
    State:
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    Name: George Garcia on Dec 4, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: As a long standing member of RID and a Trilingual interpreter at the last two congerences, I think this is a big step backwards for RID. Inclusion should be its mindset, for all...whether it's one memeber or one hundred.
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    Name: BOBBIE McGEE on Dec 4, 2004
    State: WA
    Country: US
    Comments: AS A CERTIFIED MEMBER OF RID FOR NEIGH UNTO 26 YEARS I SUPPORT THIS PETITION AND DEMAND THAT IF ONE PERSON REQUESTS SPANISH LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION THAT THE SERVICE BE PROVIDED.
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    Name: Janice Cagan-Teuber on Dec 5, 2004
    State: MA
    Country: US
    Comments: Having been on the Interpreting Teams for the past several conferences, I have seen the quality of the conferences enhanced by the inclusion of Interpreters working between English, ASL, Spanish, and Puerto Rican Sign Language. Janice
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    Name: Keri Johnson on Dec 5, 2004
    State: MA
    Country: US
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    Name: Ricardo Lopez on Dec 5, 2004
    State: MD
    Country: US
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    Name: Martha Clark on Dec 5, 2004
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    Name: Branton Stewart on Dec 5, 2004
    State: NY
    Country: US
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    Name: Persis Bristol-Dodson on Dec 5, 2004
    State: GA
    Country: US
    Comments: RID should represent access to ALL it's members! It is a cowardly act to shirk the responsibility.
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    Name: Elizabeth Parish on Dec 5, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Joshua Pennise on Dec 5, 2004
    State: VA
    Country: US
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    Name: Dana Lachter on Dec 6, 2004
    State:
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    Name: Jorge Solis on Dec 6, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: This will be my first RID conference that I will attend.
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    Name: Ananela Chirinos on Dec 6, 2004
    State: FL
    Country:
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    Name: Dimitri Azadi on Dec 6, 2004
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    Name: Theresa Bugler on Dec 6, 2004
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    Name: Beverly Rubesh on Dec 6, 2004
    State: NE
    Country: US
    Comments: Please repeal the decision made in regards to having 25 Spanish requests in order to provide services. at the national conferences. I feel it is important to provide access and to continue the progress tha
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    Name: Ruby Mercury on Dec 6, 2004
    State:
    Country: PR
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    Name: David Turner on Dec 6, 2004
    State: GA
    Country: US
    Comments: I think it's the wrong thing to do to deny someone access based on some ridiculously arbitrary number.
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    Name: Claude Shirts on Dec 6, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: I am appalled that RID would only provide interpreter services if there were 25 people in attendance. There are several reasons for me feeling this way, but just one is Puerto Rico RID is an affilliate chapter of RID.... Not everyone in Puerto Rico is fluent in spoken English, and if there are people interested in becoming interpreters, or who are starting out in their training, expecting them to use the ASL interpreters is absurd. I know I would not have been able to easily follow procedings by watching the ASL interpreters when I went to my first National Convention in San Diego in 1985. If "only" 2 or 3 Deaf people were going to any large conference would not we expect they provide ASL interpreter services I do believe the conference could cut down costs by requesting that the participants let them know ahead of time which workshops etc they were planning to attend. This seems reasonable, But if even one attendie shows up from Puerto Rico how can we deny them access ~~Claude Shirts, CI & CT, IC/TC
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    Name: Richard Brumberg on Dec 6, 2004
    State: GA
    Country: US
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    Name: Andres Campos on Dec 6, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: this is simply an access issue. It seems like RID is citing the same tired excuses that we hear so often about why a company or organization doesnt want to pay for sign language interpreters. It is hypocrisy at it's worst.
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    Name: Shelley Lawrence on Dec 6, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: While, at this point, the number of tri-lingual interpreters is small, professional development is imperative. Let's not be biased and develop some expertise.
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    Name: Bonny Aranda on Dec 6, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I hope our voicing our opinion will not adversly affect us. But I'll tell you I recently wqas faced with a tri-lingual interpreting problem and the advice I got from state and national levels was to quit. It was very sad that there is no support you'd think with all the progress made the minds would be open sad to see that as long as the oppression is not directed at a bi-lingual interpreter they just don't care, all their talk about accessability and equal access, they don't even realize that some of thee best interpreters in this business are the tri-lingual interpreters... have they stopped to think that maybe that's because...some of us have been interpreting all our lives the 'issues' are the same we advocate and educate because we've been there done that... felt the pain of neglect, isolation, separate but equal. (hah!) I am incredibly diapointed in TCHDD (DARS), and RID and the local entitiies that honestly don't care about the clients or the interpreters that don't live in the large cities who don't have access to qualified skilled, tri-lingual interpreters. I hope that the closed mindedness of the unexperienced (in tri-lingual issues)conferance coordinator will be blessed by God with an open mind and move ahead instead of regressing to the popular vote...take the road less traveled, expand your learning experiences and if you can't handle it let an experienced tri-lingual interpreter coordinator guide you, or lead you.
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    Name: Kaye Brock on Dec 6, 2004
    State: TX
    Country: US
    Comments: I believe all deaf no matter what thier heritage have a right to attend a confernce and to have interpreters of thier own langauge provided for them regardless of how many of that paticular heritage show up.
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    Name: Xavier Caylor on Dec 6, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: ASL is our common denominator.
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    Name: Kirsten Klinghammer on Dec 6, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: We are only sensitive to the needs of the American Deaf and English speakers And in San Antonio If there are NO requests for Spanish language interpreters, don't provide them. If there are ANY, please serve these attendees. I don't think interpreters should be provided for every language possibility as a matter of course, but as there is an RID chapter in Puerto Rico, equal access should at least be provided to all attendees speaking Spanish. And I'm all for developing a trilingual ASL/English/Spanish Certification test too; that's a separate issue, but one which is difficult to address at RID if Spanish monolinguals can't participate in the discussion.
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    Name: Nancy Angermaier on Dec 6, 2004
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    Name: Thomas Lawrie on Dec 6, 2004
    State: GA
    Country: US
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    Name: Susan Gonzalez on Dec 7, 2004
    State:
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    Comments: Disregarding the self-decided official language statement,if Deaf conference attendess have the full right to access to the conference in its entireity, then Spanish speaking conference attendess deserve the same right. Just because I'm Deaf doesn't mean I am any more special than my Spanish speaking colleagues nor are they less deserving of the professional training/education. Denying full access to those who work with Deaf Spanish clients, signing and/or speaking, means you deny said clients qualified and professional interpreting services. That is tantamount to the oppression hearing non-signers have inflicted on the Deaf community. Only your actions inflict it on the Spanish Deaf community. Furthermore, as a member of RID, I never agreed to the official language of the conference statement nor was I ever given the option to vote on it.
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    Name: Julie Rems-Smario on Dec 7, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: Requiring to have a minimum number of Spanish speaking registrants before RID plainly spells one word: OPPRESSIVE
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    Name: Melissa Whalen on Dec 7, 2004
    State: MI
    Country: US
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    Name: Wanda Ivelisse Dominguez-Burki on Dec 7, 2004
    State: GA
    Country: US
    Comments: I am an interpreter working toward my RID certification. I am also hispanic that agrees with this petition. It's true that we are not involved as we should. I am hard of hearing and my native language is Spanish. I feel that we the growing hispanic community RID can reach out and provide services to the other minority group that has being left behind for very long.
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    Name: David Rose on Dec 7, 2004
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: I agree that RID repeal the current decision as its unfair. RID shiould be promoting the development of Deaf Interpreters' Training and Qualification Testing as should bear in mind with the Spanish speaking people who want to or are working as Spanish/ASL etc. Thanks
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    Name: Joni Caraway on Dec 7, 2004
    State: FL
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    Name: Steve Babb on Dec 7, 2004
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: Cost should not be an issue. If the major complaint is an undue burden on the planning committee, create a position for diversty needs.
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