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NAD - In the Trenches
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mlsmolens on Jul 12, 2007
National Association of the Deaf, (NAD) President Bobbie Beth Scoggins has a new vblog on the NAD website using sign language. dotSUB captioned it and it is available for subtitling - interesting new use for the dotSUB tool making available to everyone videos made with sign language.
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- Hello again. This is Bobbie Beth Scoggins,
- your president of the National Association of the Deaf (NAD).
- NAD board members are putting a real face on our organization.
- We have been out there working in the trenches, attending meetings, international and state organizations,
- providing presentations and attending celebrations during 2007.
- I have noticed several positive things happening with state associations.
- We have 45 state associations hosting conferences, from Texas to Florida to
- Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New Jersey, just to name a few.
- This month conferences will also take place in Arizona, North Dakota, Maryland, and Kentucky.
- There were several national conferences happening this month.
- I just got back from the National Black Deaf Advocates Conference in St. Louis,
- where they celebrated their 25 year anniversary.
- While attending the conference, NAD and the NBDA were able
- to work together, have a dialogue, and establish a partnership.
- We have many common goals with a common agenda.
- I am very excited about our relationship and the wonderful future that NBDA and NAD will have.
- There were other meetings going on as well, such as the Deaf Seniors of America,
- Deaf Women United, American Society for Deaf Children,
- and the National Asian Deaf Congress, which Nancy Bloch, our CEO, just attended.
- This give and take with individuals and conferences that have a common goal will make our job at the NAD easier.
- This makes for a stronger deaf America.
- You may be wondering what we will be doing for the next two weeks.
- Nancy Bloch and I will be attending the World Federation of the Deaf in Madrid, Spain.
- The two of us from NAD will be delegates, representing the United States.
- There will be 125 countries that will come together, and each country will have two representatives.
- We will discuss issues, such as the right to have sign language and human rights.
- We will talk about deaf women’s rights, deaf minority rights,
- and what we can do on an international level.
- I look forward to bringing information back to our constituents, our members,
- our state association, and our affiliates on what we can do to improve our civil rights here in America
- We sent three young individuals to attend the World Federation of the Deaf
- Fourth Youth Camp in Segovia, Spain, from July 6 through July 15.
- The three individuals we sent are Ryan DiGiovanni,
- James “Manny”Johnson, and Melissa Malzkuhn.
- They are now working and receiving information and training on a national level.
- I just received an e-mail from them last night, and they said they learned so much about what they can do
- to be a stronger advocate, a young youth advocate, for us. I look forward to sharing that information with all of you.
- I want to send a special thanks to the sponsor of these three individuals, Dr. Ben Soukup of CSD,
- who made it possible to send these three individuals to Spain.
- NAD and CSD have a common goal related to youth and youth initiatives.
- So again we want to send a special thanks to Dr. Ben Soukup for sending these three young individuals.
- I will return to the states on July 31st. I will see you all once again out in the trenches,
- as we work together to have a strong deaf America.


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