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RESOLUTION 11-01
WHEREAS, the use of adaptive devices comprises a major
rehabilitative focus for blind veterans, AND
WHEREAS, blind veterans have multiple rehabilitative
needs related to hearing and communicative function, AND
WHEREAS, the use of devices is essential to rehabilitation
of sensory handicaps, AND
WHEREAS, the centralized prosthetic budget and the Denver
Distribution Center (DDC) provide high quality, efficient, and
cost effective delivery of devices and support of direct patient
care; THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Blinded Veterans Association, in convention
assembled in Las Vegas, Nevada on this 1st day of September, 2001,
urge the Department of Veterans Affairs retain the centralized
prosthetic budget and the Denver Distribution Center and continue
to utilize the systems for provision of devices to veterans with
sensory handicaps.
RESOLUTION 12-01
WHEREAS, technology has advanced rapidly in the field
of electronics, AND,
WHEREAS, hearing aids are designed and produced to allow
people to hear better in many environments, AND
WHEREAS, the VA has not been issuing advanced programmable
hearing aids, THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Blinded Veterans Association, in convention
assembled in Las Vegas, Nevada, on this 1st day of September,
2001, urge the VA to make the latest state-of-the-art hearing
aids and assistive listening devices available to veterans.
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