[Blindtlk] NFB Guide Dog School, A Possible Scenario

[David Andrews]

Brian, don't forget New Mexico, it has used structured discovery, 
etc., since the late 1980's, when Fred Schroeder became Director of 
the New Mexico Commission for the Blind.

Dave

At 09:05 AM 3/23/2013, you wrote:
>Julie is correct.  Iowa was really the the first NFB training center,
>as it was run by Ken Jernigan, a leader in the NFB at that time and
>afterward, and the director of the Iowa Commission for the Blind from
>1958-1978.  There were other centers and programs that were soon
>modeled after Iowa, including Kansas, Idahoe, and Nebraska.  These
>were all public VR agencies, run in large part with NFB philosophies
>underlying their model of training.
>
>Hawaii, which is not a blind agency, but what is often referred to as
>a combined VR agency, has a blind services division, and runs a
>residential training program called Ho'opono.  The Ho'opono center
>adopted structured discovery and other training methods often
>associated with the NFB, and in fact had an intensive training
>arrangement with Iowa's Department for the Blind to show them how to
>do it.  This was, however, a much more recent development -- starting
>approximately ten years ago.  Again, like all of the agencies
>mentioned above, these are publicly funded, VR agencies, not private
>non-profit training centers like those the NFB established in
>Louisiana, Mennesota, and Colorado.
>
>Brian M