[blindkid] Questions for parents of blind high schoolers

[Brad/Jill Weatherd]

Sally,
Hannah is a junior in high school this year.  For the most part, her TVI
makes sure that all of Hannah's handouts, worksheets, etc. are in Braille
and that she has all of her textbooks in Braille.  She doesn't have any
planned time scheduled to work directly with her TVI this year, though, she
did have a "free" period last year in the TVI room where she could get
instruction if needed.  I will say that since Hannah's Braille Note crashed
last week I can see that we should have gotten Hannah more practice with
scanning print documents and embossing things by herself.  Sometimes it
takes a "crisis" like that to see where the holes are.  Hannah's TVI does
come to the school every morning for about 3 hours to go to each teacher and
collect anything that needs to be Brailled or adapted for that school day,
as well as to transcribe her Brailled math homework into print for the math
teacher.  If I had what I wanted, Hannah would have an hour/week with the
TVI to work on technology skills.  That's my next phone call :)  Sadly, we
have not found good O and M training here in Wyoming, so we rely on those 8
weeks at the Colorado Center for the Blind to work on her travel skills.
Hope this info is helpful!  Jill 

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Today's Topics:

   1. some questions for parents of blind high schoolers (Sally Thomas)
   2. Re: some questions for parents of blind high schoolers (Jessica)
   3. FW: [blind-family] Access to website of orphans,	blind that
      need adoptive families- adoption grants (Eric Calhoun)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:49:45 -0500
From: "Sally Thomas" <seacknit at gmail.com>
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Subject: [blindkid] some questions for parents of blind high schoolers
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Some questions for those of you who have kids in high school or recently 
graduated:  I'm wonder if your kids continue to get direct services from the

teacher of blind students while in high school.  Did/do the kids see the 
teacher during the school day or before or after the regular school day? 
How many hours per week of services does your child receive?  Do you wish it

was more or less?  Do you have consult service hours (time for the teacher 
of blind students to talk with the classroom teachers) detailed in the IEP 
document?

It's IEP time again here so I'm trying to get some perspective on the 
upcoming high school years.

Sally Thomas 




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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:15:27 -0400
From: Jessica <jess28 at samobile.net>
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [blindkid] some questions for parents of blind high
	schoolers
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Sally,
The whole time I was in high school I worked with Teachers for the 
Visually Impaired. It was ever really totally clear to me as why I was 
still working with them because it's not like we did a whole lot of 
stuff. In fact, if you asked most the students faculty and staff 
especially at the high school I graduated from I don't even really 
think that they knew I was visually impaired. In fact, I had that very 
thing happen with  my younger
sister biology teacher. This teacher didn't realize until my younger 
sister and her best friend at the time did a report on Albinism. This 
teacher didn't realize that I had Albinism. I guess that was my first  
time feeling like I've educated someone able my condition, even though 
I really didn't say anything.
Jessica

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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:39:07 -0500
From: "Eric Calhoun" <eric at pmpmail.com>
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org, blparent at nfbnet.org, fopbc at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindkid] FW: [blind-family] Access to website of orphans,
	blind that need adoptive families- adoption grants
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Original Message: 
From: "adoptanorphan" <lynnem at wacap.org>
To: blind-family at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [blind-family] Access to website of orphans, blind that need
adoptive families- adoption grants
Date: 
Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:39:06 -0000

Please visit WACAP's  updated Web site with new capabilities at
www.wacap.org and click on the "waiting children" tab. You can now choose
to view only orphans with the specific special needs you are interested in
including blind. You can also easily see only children who fit the gender,
age or continent you are looking for and quickly identify those who have
Promise Child grants.

If you need a password to visit our secure waiting child Web site go to
http://www.wacap.org/Forms/tabid/140/Default.aspx?cid=RequestAccess.

Any questions please contact FamilyFinders at wacap.org
WACAP is a non-profit adoption and humanitarian aid agency.





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