[blindkid] Great News!

Debby B bwbddl at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 7 22:01:09 UTC 2011


Hooray! Winona really enjoyed the comparable program in MN. So sad when she aged 
out!

 Debby
bwbddl at yahoo.com


~"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."~Mark 
Twain




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From: Leslie Ligon <atfirstsight at ligondesign.com>
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 1:43:50 PM
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Great News!

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



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