[GreaterPhilly] Visiting the US

[Yvonne Hughes]

Good afternoon. Thank you so much for reaching back to me. One of the things that I do is I try to make things really big so that I can feel it as well as get my children to do so. I am a community outreach person now, I came out of the classroom because I thought I was needed more in the community to let people know the resources that were available to them in our city. Many individuals with disabilities as well as blind are not even aware of all the things that are available to them. We also have people that make things so that teaching becomes a little bit easier when you’re able to put something together with rays writing and things like that. We have a company here in Philadelphia that does raise writing with a pen and it’s on a paper that you put on your cell. If you have some things that you know that you can use and we’re able to send some things as a teacher, please reach out to me and let me know how I can better serve you so that it makes teaching a little bit more comfortable. Thank you so much for just allowing me to be in friendship with you and conversation about things that we can do to help each other as teachers. Have a blessed day  and a blessed trip 

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> On May 15, 2023, at 8:12 AM, adrijana prokopenko via GreaterPhilly <greaterphilly at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>  Hi Ivonne,
> 
> Thanks for writing back to me. I was actually in Philadelphia in
> 98-99, studying blindness courses at the international program of the
> Overbrook school for the blind. It was a very memorable time for me
> and it helped me gain some great skills I would have never gained back
> in my country. Blindness wise, things are extremely hard in Macedonia
> in every way, even though so much time has passed after that, but I
> hope that with lots of good work from great people many things will
> improve, if not for us, for the generations that are coming after us.
> 
> I teach English in a school for blind children and there is not a lot
> here when it comes to support, resources, etc, so I mostly braille all
> that I need to braille for myself and my students on the brailler. No
> one even heard of rehab workers, braille transcribers and such
> professions here, so I guess we do whatever we can to help our
> students. What do you teach and how do you help students there?
> 
> Adrijana
> 
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