[Blind-rollers] LITERACY

[helene ryles]

Hi Carol,
I'm sorry to hear that your daughter has been given the run around in this way.

Helene

On 17/08/2009, Carol Rucker <carkarrucker at earthlink.net> wrote:
>  Helena, Thanks for your comment. Yes, with me being the single parent of a
> Deaf/Blind child I felt so lost. I was always search for information but
> never really got anywhere with real useful help. I was wonder if worker with
> wide disable network is better like Kerry mention. Two years ago I told to
> contact and register my daughter under The Helen Keller Foundation. I
> thought that was a great ideal but that didn't led to anything other than to
> be told to call another place in our local area for help and to paid a fee
> to be part of the The Helen Keller Foundation.  My daughter lost her sight
> at the age of ten and her moderate hearing lost was much earlier. It just
> seem like no one wanted to give any info. The parents were not welcome in
> the school setting as they are now. Later I learn some parents had all the
> inside help and information I guess it was who you know. My daughter always
> hated listening to books on tape, she would say, why do I have to listen to
> tapes, and then have to listen to the teacher reading to me? I now call this
> a one way literacy education. She never had to write, turn in homework
> assignment, nor was she taught computer skills, because she had and still do
> have a trach, she a dwarf, with curve fingers with poor sensation, in a
> wheelchair, and not expecting to work in her lifetime, she was not taught
> mobility skills because of the she couldn't push herself in her own
> wheelchair. They said that she needed to pull along all of her own medical
> equipment, like her portable suction pump, portable ventilator, etc in order
> to be taught independent skills.  So teaching her was a waste of time in the
> school and state eyes. Then why spend 12 years in school, if the whole game
> plan was to have her work in a place like a factor putting pencil in a box
> etc? I am helping her now taking course from Hadley School from The Blind,
> like English etc. But in the mean time I will keep reading on article from
> the NFB to see if anything comes up. Even though my daughter is 21years old,
> the Parent NFB article are more better since I was not taught how to work
> with my daughter blind issue.
>
>
> Carol Rucker
> carkarrucker at earthlink.net
> 610-734-3540
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