Steel X
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I used to live near Northridge Mall (it's not there anymore).. what's your name?
Oh yea? Northridge Mall business is shut it down since a few years old, yea. Is that your real pix on it? if so then i never see your face before. By the way, My name is Jermale... how abt you?
jermale,
are you male or female?
yes -- northridge has been closed since 2003.
Oh yea? Northridge Mall business is shut it down since a few years old, yea. Is that your real pix on it? if so then i never see your face before. By the way, My name is Jermale... how abt you?
You think that "Signing Time" will allow me to be an appropriate language model for my child? Are you kidding me?
I live in Utah, there are ZERO classes for parents to learn ASL. I had to pay for 4 semesters of college to get to where I am today.
As for hearing aids and speech, yes, I suppose they aren't necessary, but why should MY child miss out because we don't make as much money as the next guy? She should suffer for it?
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For the record, no parent of a deaf child should need social security simply because they would like their child to have hearing aids and speech therapy or because they cannot afford them things on there own.
Those things are a choice not a necessity! Hearing aids are actually, in most cases, considered prosthetic devices not a life necessity or something that is medically necessary.
Since when is SSI restricted to being spent on prosthetic devises or medically necessary equipment? Is that what you spend all of your SSI money on?
Medicare and Medicaid pays for those items. SSI is intended to supplement the income of a parent who is struggling to raise a child with a disability and the added costs that creates for the family.
And, again, I find it very hypocritical that you would feel to be entitled to such assistance from SSI, but deny the same assistance to a child who has additional needs.
There's already a thread on the medical insurance coverage of hearing aids.
http://www.alldeaf.com/hearing-aids-cochlear-implants/60673-insurance-will-pay-hearing-aids.html
Please go there to discuss that.
I think its kind of sad actually that some parents wont even raise their own child, financially speaking, just simply because the child has a disability.
It isn't a matter of "won't". It is a matter of needing assistance in order to do so. That comment is the same thing as saying "It's a shame deaf people won't work and support themselves and rely on assistance from the government."
Neither is true and both are judgemental and self serving.
Actually faire_jour brought it up not me. I was just simply responding as its my thread.
But anyways, I am not going to debate this with you. You were asked to stop, as was I, by a moderator.
It isn't a matter of "won't". It is a matter of needing assistance in order to do so. That comment is the same thing as saying "It's a shame deaf people won't work and support themselves and rely on assistance from the government."
Neither is true and both are judgemental and self serving.