[blindkid] Questions for parents of blind high schoolers

Dr. Joseph Taboada jtaboada at vetmed.lsu.edu
Mon Apr 19 22:10:08 UTC 2010


I would echo what Jill said about scanning printed text and generating the
Braille or putting into an electronic form that is accessible.  Michael
never had to do any of those things for himself and now that he will be
starting college next fall it looks like that will be one of the things that
will become his responsibility.

joe


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-----Original Message-----
From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Susan Harper
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 2:14 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Questions for parents of blind high schoolers

I am the parent of a soon to be 4 year old and I am learning from all of you
who have gone before.  Thanks for sharing.
Blessings,
Sue H.

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Brad/Jill Weatherd
<snowedin at union-tel.com>wrote:

> 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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> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:49:45 -0500
> From: "Sally Thomas" <seacknit at gmail.com>
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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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> 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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