[blindkid] Incorporating braille at home

[Marianne Denning]

Traci, The State Department has grants for students in certain
countries to receive scholarships to be exchange students and they
place an emphasis on students with disabilities.  Then the State
Department assigns those students to the different sponsoring
programs.  We go through AFS, American Field Services, for our
students.  It is an long and interesting story of how we hooked up
with visually impaired students.  Now that we are a known quantity we
have not had any problem getting students.  We are hosting our 3rd
visually impaired student and next year will be our 4th. You can get
additional information from miusa.org.  If you let me know where you
live I may be able to get you in touch with AFS in your area.  AFS is
not the only sponsoring program though.

On 5/21/15, Traci Wilkerson via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> How did you get hooked up with an exchange program for VI kids?  We are
> interested in doing an exchange program but didn't know about getting VI
> explorers!
>
> Thanks,
> Traci
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Marianne Denning via blindkid <
> blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>> I am no longer a child but have blind and visually impaired exchange
>> students live with us each year.  I have our washer and dryer marked,
>> organize things in the refrigerator so they can find them, place
>> rubber bands around shampoo bottles so they can tell shampoo from
>> conditioner, show them how to find recipes on the internet, and so
>> much more.  As a blind child growing up I had chores from a very early
>> age.  I was responsible for chosing my own clothes each day and
>> helping around the house as any child would do.  The one area Mom
>> struggled was teaching me to cook.  She learned to cook many things
>> back before recipes so she didn't measure much.  I did learn to cook
>> and fixed meals for all of my children.  These are critical skills all
>> children need to learn.  A little creative thinking can make it
>> possible for parents to teach their blind children to do anything.
>>
>> On 5/20/15, Roanna Bacchus via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> > Dear Blkid List Members,
>> >
>> > I'd like to pick up on the post that I made last week about
>> > incorporating the expanded core curriculum into our lives at
>> > home.  How have you worked to incorporate braille into the lives
>> > of your children at home? My mom has placed velcro labels on our
>> > microwave at home.  I have been heating my own food up ever since
>> > then and I enjoy doing it.  I have lots of braille books at home
>> > that I read during my liesure time.  I look forward to hearing
>> > your thoughts on this topic.
>> >
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>> Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
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Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
(513) 607-6053