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Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services

Special Meeting March 2023

Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services
State Office
3535 NW 58th Street, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Oklahoma City, OK 73112

Friday, March 31, 2023 - 10:30 a.m.

March 2023 Special Meeting Commission Agenda and Packet

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Deadline approaches for DRS Transition’s summer employment program for youth with disabilities

Oklahoma City – Oklahoma City, Lawton, Ada and Tahlequah are four of the 27 cities scheduled across the state for free BEST STEP summer employment for youth with disabilities.

Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services’ Transition program and OU Pre-Employment Transition Services are offering BEST STEP job readiness training and paid summer work experience on various dates in June and July.

Find out more about BEST STEP training

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350,000 attend OK School for the Deaf’s online American Sign Language training

SULPHUR, Okla. - After years of in person classroom training, the COVID-19 pandemic motivated Oklahoma School for the Deaf to move their American Sign Language classes completely online.

The new platform exploded in popularity, attracting 350,000 students including international students from 30 countries from 2021 through spring 2023.

Find out more ASL training

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OK School for Blind’s regional Braille Challenge® award winners champion literacy

MUSKOGEE, Okla. –– “Braille is the key to literacy for many people who are blind,” Faye Miller, Oklahoma School for the Blind’s orientation and mobility specialist.

Miller also coordinates the Braille Challenge® regional competition hosted by Oklahoma School for the Blind in Muskogee for 21 years.

Find out more about Braille Challenge

OK Rehabilitation Services celebrates award winners’ success at People with Disabilities Awareness Day

OKLAHOMA CITY – After a morning of visits with legislators at the state Capitol, 653 Oklahomans with disabilities, supporters and 93 volunteers convened for the 29^th People with Disabilities Awareness Day at the OK History Center.

More than 13,600 have participated since Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services began hosting the free event in the Capitol area in 1995.

Find out more about PWDAD awards

Oklahomans to be honored during People with Disabilities Awareness Day on March 7

Eight Oklahomans will be honored Tuesday at the 2023 People with Disabilities Awareness Day at the Oklahoma History Center.

The 2023 event, which brings hundreds of people with disabilities, their families and their supporters together, will be held from noon to 4 p.m. at the history center located at 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive in Oklahoma City. The event is open to the public, and people are encouraged to wear green to show support for the event. People should eat before attending the event.

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OK School the Deaf athletes win national awards

SULPHUR, OK – Oklahoma School for the Deaf is celebrating after five exceptional student athletes won national All-American awards from the National Deaf Interscholastic Athletic Association.

In addition to an All-American honorable mention for volleyball, OSD earned an impressive four All-American awards for 6-man football. Only 12 students are honored from 6-man teams at schools for the deaf across the nation.

Find out more about OSD's NDIAA awards

DRS relocates Hispanic Community Outreach offices in OKC

OKLAHOMA CITY − The Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services has relocated the Hispanic Community Outreach office from Shepherd Center at 2401 NW 23^rd to 5813 S. Robinson Avenue in south Oklahoma City.

The main number is 405-522-7976.

Read more about the Hispanic office move

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Rehabilitation Services ends waiting list for jobseekers with most significant disabilities

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services has reopened job preparation and employment services for a category of jobseekers with the most severe disabilities known as Priority Group 1, effective February 15.

Vocational Rehabilitation counselors and technicians from DRS’ two employment divisions, Vocational Rehabilitation and Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired, will begin immediately serving jobseekers transferred from the waiting list.

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DRS relocates Vocational Rehabilitation offices in OKC

OKLAHOMA CITY − The Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services has relocated three Vocational Rehabilitation offices from Shepherd Center at 2401 NW 23^rd to the Frates Building at 5005 N. Lincoln Boulevard in Oklahoma City.

The Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing office is located in suite 205. The phone number 405-522-7930 and video phone 405-543-2646 will continue to be the same.

OK School for the Deaf educators earn teaching certifications

SULPHUR, Okla. – Two trailblazing Oklahoma School for the Deaf teachers, Jason Sledd and Rose Crouch, who are Deaf, earned deaf education teaching certifications on December 29.

Sledd has been an award-winning coach at OSD for various sports since 2012.

Read more about OSD teacher certification

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Oklahoma School for the Deaf to celebrate basketball homecoming January 21

SULPHUR, Okla. – Oklahoma School for the Deaf will celebrate their basketball homecoming festivities Saturday, January 21 in the Sulphur Public Schools gym located at 700 W. Broadway.

Homecoming events cannot be held on the OSD campus due to weather-related flooding that damaged the OSD gym.