NYT: Palin and CT (DCF) and children with disabilities
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Subject: NYT: Palin and CT (DCF) and children with disabilities
Date: Sep 7, 2008 10:12 AM
At my bogus DCF trial, Pawcatuck ()CT) Middle School's Jane Guilini
and the
other school secretary nitwiness perjured themselves so that the Town
of
Stonington (CT) would not be sued for not instituting my daughter's
504
Special Ed plan:
http://www.actionlyme.org/DIANE_EHRLICHIOSIS.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
(they all have congenital Lyme; Diane has both)
http://www.actionlyme.org/LEEBENS_DEFRAUDING_THE_COURT.htm
Check out the fact that Yale's Patricia Leebens defrauded the
court with her OTC of my children, while I had had Diane at
Yale for 6 full days of evaluation to update's Diane's Special
Ed plan. See the report by Yale's Laurie Cardona. The Stonington
Schools actually set up and paid for this evaluation, yet DCF
lied to the court and said these were unexcused absences.
I will be subpoenaing all these nitwitnesses, who will then
be criminally charged:
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
Mrs. Guilini, the principal of Pawcatuck Middle School
will be um, displeased to tell her husband, Bruce Guilini,
Town of Groton Police Chief, that she will be going to jail for
at least a year.
Oh, and by the way, CT DCF kidnaps all the special needs
kids. Listen to the conversation:
http://www.actionlyme.org/AUD_0004.ASF
DCF gets several thousand dollars a year more from Uncle Sam
if they can kidnap a "special needs" kid. So that's the first
thing DCF wants to know when you call in an abuse report.
The only thing DCF is interested in, is how KIDNAPPABLE
a set of kids are. They're only interested in how many nitwitness
they can get to testify against a parent. They illegally call
all your potential witnesses and tell them a whole bunch of
lies about the parent, to get the witnesses to turn into
DCF's nitwitnesses.
South Broad Street Middle School's principal Terry Jordan
screamed at me and slammed the door on me, not allowing me
to leave until she was done yelling at me. The reverse was
perjured about the incident under oath.
Now we will hear the truth about all these incidents in the
DCF's penis biter's upcoming trial.
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
Lots of people are going to jail.
Gauvin for at least 10 years, since that's what the
federal statute says:
http://www.actionlyme.org/GAUVIN_DEATH_PENALTY.htm
And that's without the theft of mail federal charges.
http://www.actionlyme.org/BLUMENTHALS_MAIL_STOLEN_BY_JESSICA_GAUVIN.htm
I am going to subpoena CT AG Dick Blumenthal and ask him about
what happens to his mail.
:)))
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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Parents of Special-Needs Children Divided Over Palin’s Promise to Help
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and AMY HARMON
Amid the barbs and hockey banter Wednesday night, Gov. Sarah Palin
directed an emotional
appeal to the hearts of millions of parents with children who have
special needs,
promising they would “have a friend and advocate in the White House”
in a McCain-Palin
administration. As she spoke, the camera panned to her baby, Trig, who
has Down
syndrome.
Ms. Palin’s offer of friendship sparked hope in many parents,
advocates and lawyers
as the often-marginalized subject of disabilities rights took center
stage. “We
need one, that’s for sure,” wrote one blogger, Rhymerchick, a Phoenix
mother with
an autistic child, adding, “I am tempted to vote for them just because
of that promise.”
In animated debates in blogs, chat rooms and classrooms across
America, others wondered
what such advocacy would entail. But the governor offered no details,
and Maria
Comella, her spokeswoman, would not elaborate on what Ms. Palin would
seek to accomplish
for disabled children as vice president. “She is going to be an
advocate in the
White House on multiple levels,” Ms. Comella said in an e-mail message
Friday, “because
she understands the issue, what’s needed and what works.”
To those in Alaska who work with children with special needs, Ms.
Palin’s pronouncement
was surprising; the disabled have not been a centerpiece of Ms.
Palin’s 20-months
in office or any of her campaigns for office.
She signed legislation that would increase financing for children in
Alaska with
special needs — though she was not involved in its development — yet
that state
is the subject of two lawsuits that allege inadequate services and
financing for
those children, particularly those with autism.
“I never heard Governor Palin say as governor, ‘You have an advocate
in Juneau,’
” said Sonja Kerr, a lawyer specializing in disability law in
Anchorage.
What lawyers, advocates and parents are seeking now, Ms. Kerr said, is
to learn.
“What is behind the announcement?” she said. “An advocate is someone
who pleads
another’s cause, so what is her plea going to be? To get rid of
Medicaid wait lists
so we can get kids services? To quickly pass the American with
Disabilities restoration
act? That is what I haven’t heard.”
Alaska, both by dint of its sparse population and lack of resources,
has often struggled
to provide care and educational services for its roughly 18,000
children with physical
and emotional disabilities.
For years the state shipped thousands of children out of state for
mental health
services, a problem so acute that Ms. Palin’s predecessor created a
program intended
solely to get enough services in the state to bring the children back;
from 2004
to 2007 the number of children sent out of state fell to 300 from
about 600.
While the state made a decision to close down mental health
institutions in the
1990s, it has been unable to provide alternative services for children
with mental
health issues.
The rural makeup of the state outside Anchorage (where half the
population resides)
makes services all the more difficult.
“The reason they have so many problems is lack of resources,” said
Gary Mayerson,
a lawyer who represents children with autism in 30 states. “We once
went to Kodiak
Island, where there are probably more bears than people, to see a kid
with autism
who needed a behavioral consultant. They literally have to fly these
people in on
float planes. So I can’t exactly fault a school system for not having
a speech therapist,
but I do fault the district for not bringing them in or sending
children out of
the district for those resources.”
Ms. Palin recently signed legislation that rewrote the state’s school
financing
formulas, in the process dramatically increasing the budget for school
districts
that serve children with extreme special needs. “She had no role
whatsoever” in
the development of the legislation, said its author, Representative
Mike Hawker,
a Republican. “Her role was signing. She recognized the importance of
what we did
and endorsed it.”
Democrats have pointed, sometimes correctly, sometimes erroneously, to
items in
the state budget for the disabled that Ms. Palin cut. According to
state documents,
she cut the state’s Special Olympics budget in half.
The central concern of many parents with children who have special
needs is the
financing to fulfill the decades-old federal mandate requiring public
schools to
offer educational services to their children — or pay for them in
nonpublic school
settings.
The law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, passed in
1975 with bipartisan
support, called for the federal government to pick up 40 percent of
the state cost
of teaching children with special needs. The federal government pays
less than half
that, though more under the Bush administration than under President
Clinton.
Mr. McCain voted to reauthorize the law, but voted against a measure,
with nearly
every other member of his party, to increase financing through a
reduction in tax
cuts for the wealthy. Mr. McCain has been a proponent of school
vouchers, denounced
by many advocates for children with special needs as draining public
money away
from special education programs; Ms. Palin is a school-choice
advocate, her spokeswoman
said.
Mr. McCain also opposes proposed federal legislation that would help
pay for states
to move people with special needs from state institutions into other
living arrangements,
but he has said he supports updating the Americans with Disabilities
Act to offer
more protections.
Ms. Comella, Ms. Palin’s spokeswoman, would not elaborate on Ms.
Palin’s decision
to make special needs children a centerpiece of her acceptance speech.
But Ms. Palin’s
personal appeal held enormous emotional pull for parents who rarely
see a public
official who can personally identify with the same parental challenges
as they do.
Ms. Palin’s effort to rally parents of children with disabilities has
also prompted
reaction among those who fear that her idea of advocacy might really
mean preventing
abortions of fetuses with Down syndrome, rather than lobbying for the
early medical
and developmental assistance that is so crucial to their children’s
well-being.
New technology is enabling more women to learn in earlier stages of
pregnancy whether
their fetus is affected by Down syndrome. About 90 percent choose to
terminate pregnancies.
Parents of children with disabilities have sought to educate
prospective parents
on the emotional rewards of having children like their own. But many
say they know
better than anyone else how crucial it is that they be given a choice.
“Surely she understands that it can be dark and difficult sometimes,”
Sarahlynn
Lester, whose daughter has Down syndrome, wrote on her blog this week
about Ms.
Palin. “Having been in the same position, I simply do not understand
the desire
to legislate (rather than educate) women into making better choices.”
Nancy Iannone, a Democrat and mother of Gabrielle, 3, who has Down
syndrome, said
that she was so thrilled to see Trig on stage that she had to remind
herself: “I
am a liberal. I am a liberal. I am a liberal.” Ms. Palin, she said,
“has a child
with a disability, but that doesn’t mean her party is disability
friendly.”
The last time a candidate explicitly appealed to families of the
disabled at a national
convention, advocates said, was 20 years ago, when the presidential
nominee, George
H. W. Bush, endorsed the Americans with Disabilities Act — and got a
10 percentage
point bump among voters who identified themselves as having
disabilities, according
to Andrew Imparato, president of the American Association of People
with Disabilities,
a lobbying group.
On Thursday, Mr. Imparato said he and other advocates received an e-
mail message
from Senator Barack Obama’s campaign outlining the disabilities issues
that the
Democrats had addressed at their convention.
“They certainly must be aware of the effect Palin is having on this
community,”
Mr. Imparato said.
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