Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

Recently, there’s few websites that I want to share with you since I feel it is important that you should know about it.

DeafRepublicans.com
http://www.deafrepublicans.com
Very nice website! It’s gaining a lot of attention in deaf community everywhere. There’s a lot of depth information why we should vote for republican. Of course, you don’t have to agree everything they said but it is fact-finding information that you really can’t say it’s not true. I hope Deaf Democrats will come up its own website someday.

Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Government
http://www.dhhig.org/
DHHIG is a national non-profit organization whose purpose is two-fold. It serves as an employee support group for Federal employees who are either Deaf or Hard of Hearing and as a resource organization for the nationwide Federal government. This is very good resources where you can seek for help or even join their organization if you are federal employees. In case you did not know, numbers of d/hh employees declined in federal jobs in past 10 years. That’s something you should watch and make every effort that federal is hiring more d/hh & disabilities in the future.

Historical Context of the Americans with Disabilities Act
http://www.adata.org/whatsada-history.html
The following information is excerpted from the Core Curriculum developed by Adaptive Environments, Inc. for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. This is very good information if you want to know little history about ADA and other bills.