[blindkid] Victory in an NJ Town

Arielle Silverman arielle71 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 8 18:58:34 UTC 2013


Ugh, why on earth would they put her back on  print after a
due-process resolution required them to teach Braille and she is
obviously successful learning Braille?
Arielle

On 4/8/13, Tammy Parson <theparsongang at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> That is awesome!!! It took me a Due Process settled in Resolution a year ago
> to get my daughter braille and I just received a Prior Written Notice they
> are going to have her go back to reading print. I am livid and my daughter
> is devastated. She had just went from 29 wpm to 57 wpm in her braille
> reading and now they want to put her behind a CCTV. Congratulations on your
> Victory.
>
> On Apr 8, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Carol Castellano <carol_castellano at verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Just got home from an IEP meeting in a town in New Jersey.  We're feeling
>> pretty good because the school agreed to Braille!  We didn't even have to
>> take out the big--Hank Miller case--guns!  It took almost two years to get
>> them to put the program together, but the student is now learning how to
>> type, how to use a computer with speech, how to take notes and direct a
>> human reader, and now will begin to learn Braille!
>>
>> We, the mom and I, are exhausted but happy :-).
>>
>> Carol
>>
>> Carol Castellano
>> President, Parents of Blind Children-NJ
>> Director of Programs
>> National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
>> 973-377-0976
>> carol_castellano at verizon.net
>> www.blindchildren.org
>> www.nfb.org/parents-and-teachers
>>
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