[blparent] some small points of correction about theHadleyschool

[Samara Raine]

They do offer online formats. That's the one I signed up for, though I want 
to change it to braille. Unsure how though.

Samara


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tay Laurie" <j.t.laurie at gmail.com>
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] some small points of correction about 
theHadleyschool


> Ithink what she might mean is that they aren't accessible college as in 
> they don't offer standard college courses. I need to get an eye report 
> from my doc, then I'll be happy to enroll in the courses. I think the 
> parenting course would benefit me greatly. Too bad they don't offer 
> anything online, as I tend to do better with jaws than braille.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 9:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] some small points of correction about the 
> Hadleyschool
>
>
>> Why do yu say they are not accessible to the blind?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jennifer Bose
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 7:50 AM
>> To: blparent
>> Subject: [blparent] some small points of correction about the Hadley 
>> school
>>
>> Hi, listers.
>>
>> A couple of quick things about the Hadley School: Hadley isn't an 
>> accessible
>> college, so someone going into college-level courses in IT would want to
>> look at other programs. The other thing, especially important for parents 
>> on
>> this list who live outside the US: The courses they teach--parenting
>> courses, business ownership courses, Braille literacy and a lot of other
>> subjects--are available to legally blind people anywhere, not just in the
>> US. According to their website, www.hadley.edu, they currently serve 
>> people
>> in all 50 states in the US and 100 other countries. I know they recently
>> started a program in China.
>>
>> Anyway, the parenting courses were interesting to me, too. If you think
>> about it, there are so many sources of information for sighted parents or
>> parents-to-be, such as Parents' Magazine and many other sources. So a 
>> course
>> that includes some information useful to blind parents is a nice addition 
>> to
>> all those other resources. I guess it just depends on how you learn and
>> whether you like to gather lots of information or just wing it. I 
>> actually
>> find myself wanting to learn a lot about some topics and just letting
>> others, including my daughter, teach me about other topics. I'm due in 
>> April
>> with our second and last child--two is just right for us--so I'm going
>> through my books from Hadley about infancy, just for the refresher.
>>
>> Jen
>>
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