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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Dors will be holding a parent day in Windsor from 10 to 3, Saturday, on April 5th. Our national representative Natalie Shaheen, with Louisiana center graduate, Kim Tindall, will be attending for the day if any of you wish to attend. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>See below, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Natalie Shaheen is the director of education at the National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute. Ms. Shaheen is a special educator and a teacher of the blind by training. She has been working with students with disabilities in some capacity for over fifteen years. Ms. Shaheen has extensive experience working with children with multiple and severe disabilities as an educator, a home health care professional, a recreation leader, and as an administrator. Ms. Shaheen has spoken and written broadly about her passion for ensuring that blind children with additional disabilities receive a high quality education. In an article entitled "Without Exception: Teaching the Skills of Blindness to Children with Additional Disabilities<<a href="https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/fr/fr29/2/fr290203.htm">https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/fr/fr29/2/fr290203.htm</a>>", Ms. Shaheen summed up her teaching philosophy "We must never give up! It is the job of the educator to find the proper strategy to teach a child; it is not the job of the child to conform to traditional methodology!" In addition to her professional experience, Ms. Shaheen has a lifetime of living in the world as a blind person from which she draws expertise.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Beth Rival <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>