I do know that the union president of that school is Deaf who graduated from Gallaudet University.

Thanks for sharing your experience with this principal.

I don’t know if you meant director when you referred to superintendent at Rhode Island for the Deaf, didn’t you?

I personally knew Ms. Lori Dunsmore when she was a principal at my children’s deaf school some years ago. When I read the news about her, the first thing that came to my mind is that the teachers might be against her simply because she is deaf. In other words, there may be audism among the teachers or the union. I could be totally wrong on my suspicion and therefore, I placed myself in very vulnerable position on this issue. I would love to give her the full benefit of doubt but sometimes, truth can hurt. I am open to correction however how harsh it is.

I just want to show the possible other side of the coin.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
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I am glad you are also bringing up different issues brought up during the NAD discussions the last several weeks. In my experience for over a year, NAD had been very receptive to the concerns of the Deaf Community

Thank you for responding and I am glad you and I view the same thing about the advocacy training. My understanding at NAD conventions, delgates from State Assoications attended conventions to attend workshops.

That brings to the question, if NAD does provide workshops at NAD conventions every two years (correct me if I am wrong) why can’t they take up advocacy training?

I will meet with NAD tomorrow and will see if I can address this concerns among many issues that were bought up by several bloggers and vloggers.

The academic performance continues to be poor, which isn’t good. There are other problems, too.

I know that one superintendent who earned a no confidence vote at RISD some time ago already had a poor reputation elsewhere My experience with this administrator at a different school confirmed that the poor reputation wasn’t a rumor.

But I didn’t talk to the staff at RISD this time, so I don’t know the whole story.

With the repeated turnover in the RISD superintendent position, I am starting to get the impression that the problem is with the educators themselves. They doth complain too much.

Advocacy training is needed for Deaf Community. I don’t know if NAD has resources to do that, but if not, perhaps a grant or two can be located. I’ve discussed with NAD last year about advocacy training where I offered to help. I wasn’t able last year, but I’ll sure follow up on that offer soon.

This systematic negligence of deaf students really bothers me a lot. There is a feeling of audism like the deaf students aren’t treated better because they are Deaf. Why aren’t there mandatory requirements to master ASL if one wants to stay on a job? I know low pay makes it harder to find signing staff, but once hired, they must know ASL. Not to do that would be unfair for the students. They deserve to feel valued and empowered, not to be exploited. I feel bad for the LSD students.

I feel NAD should take the responsbility to train State Assoications.

I know I came across strong because it is shameful for these horrible abuses going on and inaction by superiors of deaf schools is because they think they can get away with horrible crimes due to lack “due diligent” by State Assoications to protect children in deaf schools.

I hope the mother wins lawsuit against LSD to wake up all schools in USA that they cannot get away by providing sub-marigal education, hiring staff with ZERO ASL skills, allowing abuses going on.

It is time to crack down on these mess and provide better protection to deaf children.

Look at Deaf adults today, some of them are in bad shape due to sexual and verbal abuses in schools when they were younger due to inaction by their schools.