Audio book organization needs to know your opinion -- Dyslexia College Advice Line and Discussion Forum

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: [1], 2, 3, 4 ]

Subject: Audio book organization needs to know your opinion

Author:
Alice McGuinness (upset)

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 17:31:35 01/04/09 Sun

I am requesting that as many people as possible email the Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D) and ask them to stop referring to their dyslexic members as "disabled" "learning disabled" and/or "handicapped" on their website members area and on their audio books. They do this an outragious number of times. They refer to their Blind members as "Blind" and/or "visually impaired" but replaced the word "Dyslexic" for "disabled", "learning disability" or "handicapped". This is because they have begun lumping in every form of person with a disability so its more convienent to drop Dyslexic member for the generic hurtful names.
Please join me in asking them to refer to their members as "members" and to stop using these hurtful words over and over. The services they provide are greatly needed by anyone who has a documented print obsticles and really, that's all they need to say in the member's area and on their audio products.
I have been battling non-education-degreed teachers and relatives that have been shaming my son into pretending that he is as lazy and worthless as they call him just so he can avoid his peers knowing he has a learning disability". I finally got him to agree to try books on audio through RFB&D and I couldn't believe how they could use those words over and over.... Seriously, you have to check it out for yourselves. www.rfbd.org

Any help you can give will be help my son and I'm sure hundreds of other kids who would rather just so on struggling rather than allow anyone to call / treat them as disabled.

Thank you so very much for your kind consideration.
Alice

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

Subject	Author	Date
Re: Audio book organization needs to know your opinion	alan waugh	00:27:21 01/15/09 Thu