Ladies,

Here is a message I posted on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired board on iVillage.  I am sending it to this board because I fear it will be erased before anyone else can read it...

Dawn

I have just been to visit the "Hearing Impairments" board (http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-pphearing) in the Pregnancy and Parenting section of iVillage. It seems that the merger monster is striking and they will be shut down and merged with a "Special Needs" board next week. I cannot tell you how upset I am by this (some of you can imagine because we have been through this with this board). I am trying to choose my words carefully, however, so that I don't get myself in trouble. It was my opinion, when this board was in danger of being shut down and merged with "Living with a Disability," that the unique needs of deafness and hearing loss would be lost among "higher incidence" disabilities. I've expressed this to the powers that be in the past and, well, it seems to have been fruitless.

I don't know what else to say...

*shakes head*