[blindkid] Victory in an NJ Town

[Carol Castellano]

Oh, SO sorry to hear that.  I just don't understand how they think.
carol

At 02:40 PM 4/8/2013, you 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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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