[blindkid] Great News!

[Leslie Ligon]

We just found out Ethan's been accepted into the Littleton, CO NFB 
three-week Summer Independence program. He was the last of only eight 
kids to get into this program. Whew!

There are four boys and four girls who will live in two-bed/to-bath 
apts.; the boys with one counselor and the girls with another. There 
will be the core classes or braille, and cane travel covered, as well as 
their trip each morning by bus from the apts. to the Center. The 
counselors will also take them rock climbing and hiking at some point, 
and they're hoping to squeeze in a trip to a ball game, and white water 
rafting, which is not always done by the middle school group.

I'm thrilled he's getting this opportunity, and believe it could not 
come at a better time. He'll be entering high school in the Fall, and 
with this experience under his belt, I think he'll have much more belief 
in himself as he starts to navigate est, the turbulence of that arena!

Thanks as always to those of you we see at NFB who've encouraged us to 
keep trying to get him into one of the summer programs - I think this is 
going to be a great fit!

Best,
Leslie Ligon