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Department Of Justice
The Honorable Janet Reno
U.S. Attorney General
10th & Constitution Avenue NW, ROOM 5111
Washington, D.C. 20530
If it has to do with your mouth, your ears, your eyes, your brain or
your limbs you have and can find specific Federal assistance for that
disability. Also receiving specific Federal assistance are those with
Aids and Alcohol and Substance Abuse. I am not downgrading those dis-
abilities, but it is discrimination against those of us who have a
Chronic Lung Disease not to be included. We have essentially been
left to fight for our own rights to gain access.
When I called the Office For The Disabled for the City of St. Louis I
asked what that office was supposed to do for disabled people. I was
told that they were there to advocate for the disabled. Then I ex-
plained that I did not have access to most of St. Louis because of my
respiratory disability and that I wanted them to help me. I was told
that they were already in compliance with the ADA and that there was
nothing that they could do for me.
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If you would like to get a real education as to what it is like for those
of us with a respiratory disability try calling the St. Louis Housing and
Urban Development Office and ask about housing people.
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Those of us who have this disability need someone who has this same
disability to advocate and help draft access guidelines that will be
added to those already in place. When there is tobacco smoke in the
lobby of a building or being recirculated from a smoking area that
building is not accessible to me. For someone like myself, any amount
of tobacco smoke in a lobby is like asking someone in a wheel chair
to climb a flight of stairs to get to the elevator.
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