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<div>When AFB is supporting a bill, that means that it is to the advantage of the service providers. That isn't inherently wrong, but there are many situations where the needs of service providers are different than the needs of the consumers.</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">AER is the professional organization for professionals in the visual paradigm of blindness rehabilitation, the outdated way of providing blindness rehabilitation training. We have battled with them many times. Again, they care about
themselves, and we care about ourselves. It's only natural.</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">The problem here is that professionals in blindness education and rehabilitation want to lower the bar and give themselves more flexibility so that they don't have to do things like teach braille. We know that this is total trash.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Justin M. Salisbury, MA, NOMC, NCRTB, NCUEB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On Feb 28, 2017, at 5:32 AM, Hamit Campos via CT-NFB <<a href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p>What's wrong with AFB? Why's that a bad sign? Who's AER?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/28/2017 1:19 AM, Justin Salisbury via CT-NFB wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">HI everybody,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I remember this bill coming up in the past, so I want to just offer some things I learned about it last time.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As we might all have noticed, the National Federation of the Blind is not actively supporting the Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act. This legislation is quite broad,
and in some instances, rather than strengthening statutory support for critical skills of blindness, such as Braille instruction, it weakens them by including a host of alternatives under the Braille presumption.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As soon as I saw the names “AFB” and “AER” as supporters, especially AER, I knew this bill was bad news for blind people.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This is why I love having such a strong and vibrant governmental affairs team in Baltimore to keep watch over all of these things for us. Generally speaking, if I don’t hear
about it from Federation leadership first, I am very careful with a bill. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Aloha,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Justin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Justin M. Salisbury, MA, NOMC, NCRTB, NCUEB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Pre-Authorized Contribution Plan Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:President@Alumni.ECU.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">President@Alumni.ECU.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">William Butler Yeats</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> CT-NFB [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org">mailto:ct-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gary Allen via CT-NFB<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 27, 2017 1:18 PM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Gary Allen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:garyallenct@gmail.com">
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<b>Subject:</b> [Ct-nfb] American Foundation for the Blind Applauds Bipartisan Action to Transform Special Education for Students with Sensory Disabilities - American Foundation for the Blind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">American Foundation for the Blind Applauds Bipartisan Action to Transform Special Education for Students with Sensory Disabilities - American Foundation for the Blind<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.afb.org/info/about-us/press-room/press-release-archive/cogswell-macy-act-hr-1120-introduced-in-the-house/1245">http://www.afb.org/info/about-us/press-room/press-release-archive/cogswell-macy-act-hr-1120-introduced-in-the-house/1245</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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