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		<title>Time to Do the Tax Returns!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can click www.youtube.com/user/irsvideosASL  to do your tax returns or to learn some more information about the others.]]></description>
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		<title>Miss Deaf America in Super Bowl</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Super Bowl XLVI: PepsiCo and the NAD http://www.nad.org/news/2012/2/super-bowl-xlvi-pepsico-and-nad  The National Association for the Deaf (NAD) and PepsiCo announce that the NAD Miss Deaf America, Rachel Mazique, will perform the National Anthem and America the Beautiful in American Sign Language (ASL) at the upcoming Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis on February 5, 2012.  The NAD in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Assistance For any Tax Returns at FSW</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dates for Tax Return at FSW, 475 Clinton Avenue, Bridgeport, CT are on March 3, 10, 17 &#38; 24, 2012  from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.. It&#8217;s free for everyone.   To reserve your time slot, please contact Tammy  M. Ennis, MSW, CSDF Program Coordinator, Deaf Outreach Services Phone: 203.416.6104, Fax:203.696.  0714 or E-mail: tennis@fswinc.org   Web: www.fswinc.org]]></description>
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		<title>Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOV. MALLOY PROPOSES ADDITIONAL AGENCY CONSOLIDATIONS Legislation Will Reduce the Size of Government and Improve Efficiency  (HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced a proposal to continue the process he began last year to downsize state government.  The Governor said the state agency consolidations announced today will allow state government “to continue to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interested in Working for DDS with Deaf Consumer??</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you share your home with a Deaf adult with special needs?  These adults need a home with a family that understands Deaf culture and can teach them life skills. This program is under Department of  Developmental Services (DDS)-Community Companion Homes (CCH).  Most important, you will be providing a safe and caring home to a Deaf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Help Celebrate DBAC&#8217;s 25th Anniversary!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[25 years ago Elaine Ducharme, Deafblind became very frustrated with the system here in the state of Connecticut, and also knew that there were several isolated, lonely deafblind individuals seeking social functions of their own, etc.  She decided to establish DeafBlind Association of Connecticut to meet the needs of deafblind friends.  She is well known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deaf Child&#8217;s Bill of Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 24, 2012 Governor Malloy greeted the parents, deaf leaders and supporters of deaf and hard of hearing children at his mansion.  This function, &#8220;Deaf Child Bill of Rights Initiative in Connecticut&#8221; proposed by the CT Coalition for the Education of Deaf/Hard of Hearing Children was sponsored by HEAR Here Hartford Chapter, HLAA, American School for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Jespersen, co-inventor of closed captioning, dies at 77</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Leland Jespersen of Boulder died of a heart attack in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on Nov. 24 while visiting a friend. Jespersen, 77, a co-inventor of closed captioning for the hearing impaired, won an Emmy Award for his work in 1980 and was honored at the White House. He worked as a physicist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshops about BRS and CDHI</title>
		<link>http://ccosd.org/2012/01/25/workshops-about-brs-and-cdhi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRS and CDHI will be doing two &#8220;Introduction to the Bureau or Rehabilitation Services and Commissions on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired&#8221; workshops in the western part of CT. One workshop will be on February 28, 2012 from 10 am-12 pm at the Waterbury BRS and the other workshop will be on April 12, 2011 from 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Porter Appointed as Chief of New CT Rehab Services Agency</title>
		<link>http://ccosd.org/2012/01/19/amy-porter-appointed-as-chief-of-new-ct-rehab-services-agency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Dannel P. Malloy on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 named Connecticut social-services veteran Amy Porter as the director of the newly merged state Bureau of Rehabilitative Services. The agency was formed last year consolidation from the consolidation of the Department of Social Services (DSS) Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, the State Board of Education &#38; Services for [...]]]></description>
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