Is a house a home? For Dan and Sheila, their modest condominium in Bayside, Queens is both a house and home. The condominium serves as a physical structure against the natural elements, like rain and snow and the heat from …
Client Story – Donna
Things looked pretty bleak for one of our profoundly deaf clients, Donna, just about a year ago. The city and state program-Advantage-was ending and so was the funding provided to her that subsidized Donna’s modest housing in Brooklyn. The fallout …
NAD’s 50th Biennial Conference
The 50th Biennial Conference of the National Association of the Deaf, Philadelphia, PA July 9th, 2011 The first thing that I notice yesterday when I enter Franklin Meeting Room Four on the third floor of the Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia, …
Client Story – Daryl
I keep returning to the words of Robert F. Kennedy, standing before metal microphones, at a press conference held in 1965, when he states that he has visited the state institutions for the “mentally retarded” and “I think particularly at …
Client Story – Asylum
We have the privilege of representing a young man who was raised in Jamaica, West Indies. Our earliest memories of Jamaica were formed, actually, through black and white photos, with jagged edges, taken by my parents, while on their honeymoon, …
Client Story – Grace
Last month, our law center had the privilege of representing one of our most treasured clients: Grace. Mother of three children, immigrant from the horn of Africa, middle-aged, profoundly deaf and without assets, Grace has lived in a single’s shelter …