[Blind-rollers] Literacy

[helene ryles]

Carol,
I agree that there should be more to be done for blind with Editional
disabilities, but I don't really think anyone really acnoledges us.
I'm Deafblind. I have petit mal epilepsy, thyroid deficency and minor
asperger syndrome. All these disabilities combined make me fuction
less well then I would like but still better then what some people
expect of blind people which it seems is very little. So that's why I
am all in favor of NFB even though I also find tactile pavements very
useful and vibrating traffic signals too (although the NFB are less
aposed to the vibrating signals then the talking ones).

I have met blind people with mental health issues who's blindness is
the least of their problems. I also once massaged an old lady. They
told me she was blind but it very quickly became clear that her
blindness was only the start of her problems. She did not understand
the need to keep still while she was haveing a massage.
I also know a deafblind roller who was denied certain activities that
she would have been capable of just because nobody knew much about
wheelchair bound people.

Helene

On 12/08/2009, Carol Rucker <carkarrucker at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Dear Kerry: I agree with you also and for other reason. I am a parent of a
> now 21 year old adult. I can say that the school made my child ill literacy
> and I guess I am the blame also; because I wasn't smart enough to know the
> ins and out of the school system until it was too late. My main concern at
> that time was for my daughter to live with all her medical problems. Over
> the years she spend more time in the hospital than out. Her education was
> done thought the school system but at home, which consist of five hours per
> week. The school only read to her because my daughter couldn't feel the
> braille dots, due to poor sensation in her hands and finger. Because of that
> they only read grade school books as though she had a mental mind of a five
> year old. She is 21 year old and I am read adult books to her but I which
> she access written article herself. She lost her vision at age seven and was
> not  encourage to write from memory  they said its was a waste of time and
> when will she ever going to used it. I start reading the Federation article
> because I enjoy their article; but mainly I was always looking for something
> that will support Blind people who can't read Braille. It make me sad to
> always see that you have to be a non disable Blind person with the
> Federation. I am always anxious to reading the monthly booklet to see if
> there something written to help with the literacy problem for people who
> can't read Braille. It seems the Federation and the whole blind support
> system is more so for the regular Blind person who can go to work, and lucky
> enough to go to collage, and conferences etc.  The rest of them are left out
> label disable. Do we always have to be chasing the people who knows all the
> secret but still won't tell us. Tier of being told to registry with the
> mental retardation center to get help when she is not.
> Sorry for ranting on and on.
>
> Carol Rucker
> carkarrucker at earthlink.net
> 610-734-3540
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