[blparent] Independence

[Amanda Winkler]

Alternative option to the centers checkout:

www.worldaccessfortheblind.org

Not sure if DOR pays for this or not.  No hurt in window shopping.


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From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 8:47 AM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Independence

> Robert has a good point.  A training center might be right for some 
> people, but if you can't get that kind of intensive training, you can 
> learn a lot because you want to, or because you have to.  Could you 
> propose to your parents that you take on the responsibility of cooking 
> dinner for everyone two or three nights a week?  There are lots of 
> cookbooks and easy recipes out there, and even cooking e-mail lists with 
> other blind users.  Could you take on one bathroom to clean or one room to 
> vacuum, so you get practice? Might be a way to start.
>
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, 
> unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into 
> advance."--Franklin D. Roosevelt
>
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> From: "Robert Shelton" <rshelton1 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9:37 AM
> To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] Independence
>
>> What you really need are some skills.  RP is nasty because you naturally 
>> try
>> to use the techniques that worked for you when your vision was better. 
>> It's
>> all about independence, and the knowledge of how to function as a blind
>> person will give you power over your own life.  It will enable you to 
>> deal
>> with your parents as an adult equal rather than a dependent.
>>
>> I do not know what is available where you live, but NFB has many 
>> excellent
>> resources to help you find the training that you need, as well as how to
>> deal with the state.  Don't put it off.  Learn what's available and easy
>> first, and then move on to a residential program.
>>
>> As a teen, newly blind, I got excellent O&M training and other basic 
>> skills.
>> I never did go through a residential program (other than living as a
>> batchelor, but I wish I had.  It is a lot easier to learn from blind 
>> people
>> who have been living independently as opposed to having to figure out 
>> each
>> and every little trick for yourself by trial and error.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>>
>>
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