[Blindtlk] NFB training centers

[Gary Wunder]

I can't give you any information about which of the three training centers 
is the best, but I think one of the things you need to check out initially 
is whether your state has a policy about students attending an NFB training 
center, and if so, whether it is equally open to any of the three. In 
Missouri we have tried to get the state agency to allow complete freedom of 
choice, but they have elected to contract with only one NFB training center, 
that being the Colorado Center for the Blind. We had an independent hearing 
appealing the decision to contract with only one NFB Center, but we lost. 
The logic of the agency seems to be that there would be a real denial of 
choice if a student didn't have an NFB Center as an option, but that there 
is no need for any of their consumers to have more than one and that it is 
unreasonable for consumers to expect that they can simply go anywhere they 
wish.