[Home-on-the-range] An article from www.kansas.com

[Susan Tabor]

My mom called me from Wichita about this story today. Has NFB had some
contact with her? Just curious; I hope Virginia gets ahold of her.

Susan

 

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Floyd has sent you the following story:

Another sicess story from the NFB of Ks.

 

 <http://www.kansas.com?story_link=email_msg> 

Posted on Sunday, Aug. 07, 2011

 

Blind West High grad speaks at White House

By ANNIE CALOVICH 

 

Sighted people may not think they understand Alysha Jeans, blind from birth,
but she seems to understand them all right. Jeans, a 2006 West High School
graduate, got to speak at the White House last month at a celebration
marking the 21st anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act. She
followed Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Tina Tchen, chief of staff for
the first lady. And she told the audience of government officials and
interns that there is a tremendous depth to people that doesn't always meet
the eye.

"I'm totally blind. I was born blind. And I said that I think a lot of
people have never even met a person with a disability or interacted with
them, so they don't understand the capabilities," Jeans said in a phone call
from her home in Vienna, Va., recalling her speech. 

She is 23 years old and one year into a job with the FBI in Quantico, Va.,
working in forensic audio analysis.

 

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