[Community-service] what you did for meet the blind month

[Jonathan Franks]

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> On Nov 1, 2017, at 2:59 PM, Johna Wright via Community-Service <community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> While there is not an active chapter in Macon, GA (I'm working on that), I gave a lecture at Mercer University about blindness and how it affects college students. 
> Furthermore, I presented at a visionary panel and I am in the planning stages of a program that will assist blind students in their transition to college, while also educating professors on best practices when interacting with these students. 
> 
> I'd say I had a pretty successful Meet the Blind Month, and I can't wait to hear what everyone else did!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Johna Wright
> Social Media Coordinator 
> National Federation of the Blind Community Service Division
> 
>> On Nov 1, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Jonathan Franks via Community-Service <community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> hope you are doing well. As it is now November 1st, Meet the Blind
>> Month has come and past. SO, I was wondering what you, your
>> chapter/affiliate/division or group of friends/ colleagues did?
>> 
>> A few examples from the Austin Chapter of the National Federation of
>> the Blind of Texas are:
>> 
>> Volunteering with the Boys and Girls Club: One of our chapter members
>> is employed there and they read braille stories to the children,
>> utilized the new tactile art kit from the Action fund and talked about
>> guide dog handling with the children.
>> Volunteering at The Thinkery: The Thinkery is a STEAM focussed
>> interactive Children's museum where myself and another chapter member
>> is employed. I along with 4 other chapter members brought Perkin's
>> Braillers, Slate and Styllus, a laptop with Jaws installed, a Victor
>> reader and the Museum provided Braille children's books, braille
>> blocks with numbers on them, letter and number magnets with braille,
>> a board that had crayons with the braille in front of it assigning
>> what color it was. We talked about braille, wrote their names and gave
>> them braille alphabet cards, demonstrated how Jaws and a audio book
>> being played by a Victor reader works, how to use a cane and
>> introduced them to guide dogs. We also had one of our members read a
>> couple of children's books during one of the museum's story times for
>> the little kiddos.
>> 
>> We also planned and are  sending two of our members to a nursing home
>> to help introduce some of their clients with cognitive functionability
>> impairments  that are blind to basic blindness training.
>> 
>> I would love to hear what you all have done this past month.
>> 
>> Warm regards,
>> 
>> Jonathan Franks BSW
>> Board Member
>> National Federation of the Blind of Texas
>> Vice Chairman
>> Mayor's Committee for People with Disabilities in Austin, Texas
>> Graduate Student
>> MSW Program
>> Texas State University
>> 
>> -- 
>> The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
>> characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
>> expectations of blind people, because low expectations create
>> obstacles between blind people  and our dreams. You can live the life
>> you want; blindness is not what holds you back.
>> 
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> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/community-service_nfbnet.org/jfranks%40nfbtx.orgJohna, 
You were certainly busy and productive. Perhaps you can talk with your affiliate president about starting a chapter.