8335906 - Florida Administrative Rules, Law, Code, Register

Florida Department of State and Division of Library and Information Services


Notice: 8335906
Notice of Meeting/Workshop Hearing

Department:	DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH


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	The Florida Coordinating Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Education/Medical/Outreach Committee announces a telephone conference call to which all persons are invited.

DATE AND TIME:	March 24, 2010, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. (EDT)

PLACE:	Tallahassee, FL. This meeting will be accessible through teleconference and streaming CART Toll-Free Conference Call: 1(888)808-6959, Conference Code: 5221678031#. Computer-assisted real-time translation (CART) services will be provided remotely via weblink: http://www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=FCCDHH. Due to time constraints and that fact that this is a focus work group meeting, there will not be a public hearing nor public participation. Nearly 3 million Florida residents are deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened or deaf-blind, making people with hearing loss the largest disability group in the state of Florida. Florida has the second largest population of people who are deaf or hard of hearing in the nation.

Subject:	The subject of the meeting will be in furtherance of the Council’s mission of Information, Education and Advocacy regarding current education, medicine and outreach innovations and opportunities available to persons who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind. Content and publication of a citizens’ rights handbook may also be discussed.


	A copy of the agenda may be obtained by contacting: Mary Grace Tavel, info@fccdhh.org, MaryGrace_Tavel@doh.state.fl.us, (850)245-4913, TTY: (850)245-4914, Toll-free TTY: 1(866)602-3276.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:	3/5/2010 Vol. 36/09


REFERENCE MATERIALS:	No reference(s).

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