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Ohio community centers for the deaf warn funding cuts will reduce services across rural counties
Summary
Leaders of Ohio's community centers for the deaf told the Senate Medicaid Committee that reductions in Department of Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities funding will devastate staffing and services that help deaf and hard-of-hearing families access early intervention, ASL education and healthcare navigation.
Leaders and families connected to Ohio's seven Community Centers for the Deaf (CCDs) told the Senate Medicaid Committee that a House budget reduction will cut core services and jeopardize outreach to rural counties.
"Without this level of stable funding, all of this that we currently have is at risk," Elizabeth Welp Dale, manager for services for the deaf in Cincinnati, told the committee. She described CCD programs…
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