Submitter of the false and libelous report on Rip-Off Report and the subsequent responses to our rebuttals was done by our CEO's acrimonious ex-wife. That's her retaliatory response from getting evicted from his home at the beginning and subsequently losing the divorce suit against him at the end.

Check our credentials listed at our 501(c)(3) info link on the left hand column for our credentials and check the links within there to see our current IRS and FTB reports.

Our business license is found on the City of Irvine Business License list on line # 13973.

Richard

This year we're doing something very different.

We will have a kiosk instead of a booth. This will enable our presence at the fair and educate people of our availability to serve and help those with special needs.

Kiosks dont have to be manned.

Here is a fact.




Gallaudet Research Institute's 2006-2007 Annual Survey of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Youth revealed that 87 percent of students who are deaf use speech in the classroom to some degree, and 52 percent use only speech. That is only children -- the percentage of adults is a lot higher.

I was recently asked to assist a deaf webmaster to develop a letter he/she can use to send to people asking for financial support. The letter below is the example he sent to me. I can see why this person wasn't able to get any sponsorships. The letter below represents the result of the failed sign language based education system we have been feeding, as in funding, for too long. This is the result of the taxpayers $800,000.00 that was spent to teach this person sign language. The person can't succeed because he/she wasn't taught the right language. That's a $800,000.00 waste of taxpayers money you're seeing here. Getting this deaf person to hear and speak would have cost far less than $100,000.00 and would have made a better writer than what you see in the letter below.

I've been seeing a lot of examples like this and feel it's high time we start teaching deaf children the right language. It's high time we stop funding the failed sign language based education programs for the deaf and start funding programs that teach deaf children the right language. Lets do that so we dont have to see more letters like below.

Richard Roehm

(I have removed identifying components to spare this writer additional embarrassment)

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Thank you for your time to read this.

Dear Company,

We are here to request the partnership with your company to be part of our website to expand the bandwidth and announcement, we tends to earn 40 to 50 visitors a day for our website attendant. So our partnership is with you will be wonderful experience.

The problem- We don’t have enough bandwidth and profits. We need some partnership to help us to grow the business to be successful to become world-wide directory in the future for the deaf and hard of hearing community. We could help you to attract the visitors to your website if you are become our partner and help us out. Give us some profits and attention to our website for trade.

The Solution- The visitors will attract to your website and business. Any order to your website can be helping us out too. Our profits and business, we just started our website in xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to help the deaf and hard of hearing people to find the thing more easier in our website, we provide the information that deaf and hard of hearing can find and interested in. The CEO/Founder and the webmaster, we are the team to keep the website running since xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. We are forwarding to have the partnership with your company to keep our website running and expanding to become world wide directory in the future to help the deaf and hard of hearing to find the information easily. Our url: http://www.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com, you may check us out and give you some considering to become our partner In the future.

Thank you for your time to read this again.
Sincerely,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com
contact us via the email- xxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com
Hope you have some thoughts about this.

February 27, 2009

The Honorable Tom Harkin
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Senator Harkin,

Even though you're not one of our senators, we appreciate the time to read the letter from us.

We at the Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center thanks and appreciates your longstanding zeal to make life better for people with disabilities.

As civilization advances, the deaf community has been very slow to advance with it. And they show it by forcefully rejecting futurists like Dr. Jane K. Fernandes from running Gallaudet University. They also show it by violently resisting most attempts to create bridges out of the so called 'crab theory' syndrome that keeps many of the deaf community members in a prison of silence.

We are all for advancing the deaf community through mitigation of their hearing and speech disabilities. Two of our board members serve on UCI's Stem Cell PAC as one of the avenues we use to help the new deaf generation escape the prison of silence among other ailments.

What we ask from you is for your continued support in helping the deaf community advance with civilization and helping them escape the prison of silence. Please support the oral deaf schools, please support the application of latest medical innovations to mitigate hearing loss such as cochlear and brain stem implants, and support the organizations like ours for advocating these avenues for the new deaf generations.

Also we ask for you is to give a hard look at the Deaf Bilingual Coalition and consider adding them to the lists of domestic terrorists since their members have been violently resistant to advancements of the deaf community. They show it through numerous videoblogging activities and violent activities at deaf socials and expo events.

Finally we ask you to help millions of deaf Americans and deaf Californians escape the prison of silence with your support of oral deaf schools, medical innovations, and suppressing violence from members of the deaf community that are resistant to advancing with civilization.

We look forward to a response from you once you have taken the opportunity to look into the matter.

Thank you,

Richard Roehm
Chief Executive Officer

Tomorrow President Obama will sign the legislation that will provide the needed economic stimulus. According to Jobfox.com, the most wanted new jobs, listed by major Obama initiatives, will include:

Initiative: Construction of Roads, Bridges, Transit and Rural Broadband

Key Jobs:

1. Construction managers
2. Project managers
3. Civil engineers
4. Computer-aided drafting specialists
5. Telecommunications engineers

Initiative: Greater Oversight of Financial Markets

Key Jobs:

1. Compliance accountants
2. Internal auditors
3. Tax accountants
4. Government regulators

Initiative: Energy Independence

Key Jobs:

1. Electrical engineers
2. Mechanical engineers
3. Power grid managers
4. Biofuels chemists
5. Sales and marketing

Initiative: Healthcare Modernization

Key Jobs:

1. Nurses
2. Information technology specialists
3. Bioinformatics specialists
4. Information security specialists
5. Software developers

Initiative: Volunteerism and Community Involvement

Key Jobs:

1. Social workers
2. Administrators
3. Translators

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCES KAREEM DALE AS SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR DISABILITY POLICY

First Time a President has had a Special Assistant Focused Exclusively on Disability Policy

BOISE, ID – Vice President Joe Biden today announced Kareem Dale as Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy. The Vice President, who was leading a Presidential Delegation at the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Boise, Idaho, made the announcement during a stop at the Special Olympics’ Healthy Athletes Event, a worldwide program in which athletes receive a variety of health screenings and services.

“The commitment that the President and I have to Special Olympics and people with disabilities is deep and abiding. And we are backing up those words with real action at the White House,” said Vice President Biden. “This is our first step to ensure that we have a strong advocate for people with disabilities at the highest levels of our Administration.”

Dale, who is partially blind, will have direct access to the President in this role and he will coordinate the Administration’s efforts to ensure that people with disabilities are on a level playing field with all Americans.

Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Dale previously served as the National Disability Director for the Obama for America campaign. He also served on the Arts Policy Committee and the Disability Policy Committee for then-Senator Obama.

Dale graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor's degree in Advertising in May 1995. He received his JD/MBA in May 1999 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating Cum Laude. While attending law school, Dale was also active in community service, including serving as president of two organizations, the Black Law Students' Association and Open Forum.

I dont know if thats the message from Ramsey or the consistency we've been seeing in the restaurant industry in the past decade.

If you are disabled, you should be given a chance to prove yourself, you shouldn't be shown the door.

The $819 billion stimulus package that passed the house today contains money for the disabled. There had been sensational rumors flying about in the disability communities that the bill had nothing for the disabled.

The bill also provides these disability related provisions;

$87 billion to states for a temporary increase in the Federal Medicaid matching rate (FMAP).

$13 billion for IDEA state grants, to increase funding for special education.

$600 million for IDEA Early Intervention.

$500 million for the Vocational Rehabilitation state grant.

A one time $450 (individuals)/$630 (couples) payment to all SSI recipients ($4.2 billion total).

$6 billion for broadband and wireless services in underserved areas.

$200 million for state formula grants for Centers for Independent Living.

$900 million to improve the Social Security Administration claims process and computerization upgrades.

$6.5 billion for several low income housing initiatives.

Therefore ignore any rumors flying around that the stimulus bill that was passed today contains nothing for the disabled.

2009 will be a monumental year for Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center as we have been collaborating with numerous health related organizations to advance our zeal. We have 5 key goals to accomplish in 2009. Most of these goals are similar to our 2008 resolutions. The key goals all fit within our mission and vision statements.



1) Solidifying our leadership direction by adding "more sails to our ship"
a) Increasing the evaluations of irresponsible deaf leadership ( achieved in 2008 )
b) Promoting responsible deaf leadership ( achieved in 2008 )
c) Increasing resources for the Deaf WAI (War Against Indiscipline) program ( exceeded in 2008 )
d) Increasing our resilience to casualty events such as loss of primary youtube outreach account.



2) Focus on deaf evolution
a) Expanding non-confrontational advocacy ( achieved in 2008 )
b) Increasing the support of oral-deaf on staff and board census
c) Increasing the use of technology-based social service concept ( exceeded in 2008 )
d) Expanding our fiscal independence concept ( exceeded in 2008 )



3) Office resources
a) Reduce facilities costs by acquiring additional real estate for the use as office resources ( exceeded in 2008 )
b) Consolidating our expenses to avoid repetition of costs



4) Outreach
a) Participate in deaf events that promote responsible deaf leadeship ( exceeded in 2008 )
b) Focus on events that need exposure to hearing loss outreach ( achieved in 2008 )
c) Develop outreach videos and use the video sharing websites ( achieved in 2008 )
d) Simplify outreach materials for easier transporting, setup, takedown ( exceeded in 2008 )
e) Provide leadership in non-deaf causes (AIDS, Paganism, Medical Innovations, Environmental, etc...) ( achieved in 2008 )



5) Social services
a) Development of web-based social service automation for global access


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In the past 10 years and continuing beyond 2009, the Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center will do what they do better than anything else in the world, ENTERTAIN YOU, with their special brand of deaf advocacy.

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We wish everyone a safe, healthy, and productive 2009!

FROM THE BOARD, THE STAFF, AND THE VOLUNTEERS