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Originally Posted by Barefoot
I don't think anyone opposes the ADA requirement for assistance for the deaf if they're attending LLC classes.
And according to The Villages, that assistance was offered.
I realize the high-lighted comment in your post was designed to unfairly denigrate residents of The Villages, so I won't take the bait.
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Apparently you missed the several hundreds of postings in this thread.
The assistance TV offered to the deaf were not of the kind they needed. Equipment such as the loop, etc. probably would have helped the hard-of-hearing and the late-deafened but not the profoundly deaf who depend on lip-reading (which is tough, tough, tough) and/or signs.
By the same token, we would not offer crutches to quadriplegics, would we, to save money on building ramps?
So the deaf Villagers were right in bringing suit, although I wish they tried facilitative advocacy first. Maybe they did. Nine years was how long it took them. I doubt the physically disabled would want to wait this long to get their ramps.