By: Nicky

Nicky — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:05:03 +0000

I am 42 was born only able to use one eye, if my good eye is covered I can slightly see out of bad eye but as soon as uncovered I don’t use that eye my glasses are so bad my prescription is 8 plus in both eyes would this be classes as a disability?

By: lucy wilson

lucy wilson — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:32:13 +0000

my 3 year old son has just been diagnosed as hyper mobile and also has dairy egg and soya allergy, he gets constant diarrhea if he eats any of the foods i mentioned and he cannot walk properly because his joints are really flexible he’s extremely behind on his growth and co-ordination and i cannot begin potty training until his bowels are normal he’s flat footed and walks with his feet pointing inwards I’ve recently become aware that we may be able to claim dla but i need to know if this is classed as a disability before i claim.

By: Jane Klocker -

Jane Klocker - — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:08:57 +0000

My sister is a 43 yr old who was born with cerebal palsy. Because she has always wanted so badly to be seen as “normal” she has been too proud all these years to even look into any help she may qualify for to make her life easier. At this point, she is still able to walk (albeit with much pain),she has been so thank-ful to be able to have a job for the last 20 yrs in the farmington school disctrict as a special ed. assistant where she works with pre-K special needs children. She has an incredible gift of being able to connect with these kids and her work is literally her life as she’s never been married or even had a boyfriend. In the last 5 years she has been so verbally and emotionally abused by the people she works with (IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WHERE WE SEND OUR CHILDREN TO LEARN ABOUT LIFE!) and has been warned numerous times by both the teacher she worked with and the HR department AND THE UNION that she’d better not talk about it to anyone or she would just make things more difficult for herself. She refused to allow me to find some help for her because she was so afraid of retaliation from her employer – again, our public school system!!!-
and on 11/24/09 she was given notice by the principle of Akin elementary school in farmington and BANNED FROM THE SCHOOL AND FROM TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THIS! When she asked what she had done, she was told that she couldn’t communicate well with the teacher she had that she had taken 6 yrs of abuse from. When she went to the principle about the abuse, she was quickly termed “A Problem”. When she asked why she couldn’t just bid for another job in the school (and she had requested many times over the years not to be assigned to this teacher for the following school year because of her emotional/psychologically abusive behavior), she was told that she made this teacher feel “uncomfortable” so my sister is no longer allowed to work in the building. She was told that her “only option was to take a temporary clerical position at the district service center”. We are desperately looking for some kind of advise – she is going to lose her house, her vehicle, and everything she had to live for in her work! I truly believe she has been treated so unfairly because of her vulnerable inability to deal with these peoples abuse. This has been a True case of Retaliation- they literally followed her around looking and taunting her to make a mistake so they could document on her. Could someone please offer us some advise?

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