Bulletins by Aimee Breinholt
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October 2018 Issue
President’s Corner Hello everyone in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community, Wow – summer is over already and now school has started for many of us- hope you all had a great summer and vacation! UAD would like to share a few updates with you! The Deaf Friendship Day at the Lagoon in August […]
May 2018 Issue
President’s Corner Hello everyone in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community, Here’s some updates from the recent Legislative Session: SJR 1 Joint Resolution Recognizing Educators of the Deaf and American Sign Language Instructors – https://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/SJR001.html – PASSED HB 139 Sub 2 Telepsychiatric Consultation Access Amendments – PASSED This is a great step for the […]
January 2018 Issue
President’s Corner Hello everyone in 2018! I hope you all had great Christmas holidays and New Year’s Eve! The whole UAD Board recently went on a retreat last month in Eden, Utah. We had a blast getting to know the new board members. It allowed us to get to know each other better and develop […]
October 2017 Issue
President’s Corner Thank you all who came to our 47th Biennial UAD Conference. It was a success! We’re getting lots of positive feedback about the conference and how everyone really appreciated having Wayne Betts, Jr. as the keynote speaker and we learned a lot! He focused a lot on Deaf Ecosystem and it got us […]
July 2017 Issue
President’s Corner Happy Mid-Summer everyone! Time is flying by fast! Time is precious! Time never stops! So onward we go. The last three months (April, May, June) was eventful with Linsay Darnall Jr.’s Leadership training workshop, a couple restaurant fundraisers, some advocating efforts, a hiking event and two town hall meetings (Prison and VRI). I’m […]
April 2017 Issue
President’s Corner Happy April Fool’s Day! Everything I’ve stated below is true. 🙂 Legislation took up most of our time during the last three months. We advocated for HB 60 which the governor just signed into law on March 17th! What this bill does is replace the term “hearing impaired” with “deaf and hard of […]
October 2016 Issue
President’s Corner One of the biggest happenings of the last three months was going to the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) conference in Phoenix, Arizona as a representative for UAD. It was definitely an eye opener since it was my first time as a delegate. I got to see all the discussions about various […]
March 2016 Issue
Legislative Session – HB325 President’s Corner Wow! What a rollercoaster ride for the month of February 2016. As you may all know, the legislators have voted and decided that Utah State Office of Rehabilitation (USOR) is the best fit under Department of Workforce Service (DWS). Division of Services of the Deaf and Hard of […]
February 2016 Issue
NAD visits Utah Philippe Montalette Every quarter, the NAD board meets community and visits schools in different cities in USA. We were fortunate that NAD agreed to meet in Salt Lake City from January 13th to 17th. We stayed at a rental house in Mill Creek. We want to take this opportunity to provide you […]