[Home-on-the-range] FW: [Promotion-technology] The CISCO Academy for the Vision Impaired Presents CAVI Cast - Vocational Rehabilitation for the blind in the United States Presenters: Dr. Fredric K. Schroeder & Jeanine K. Lineback

[Susan Tabor]

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Subject: [Promotion-technology] The CISCO Academy for the Vision Impaired
Presents CAVI Cast - Vocational Rehabilitation for the blind in the United
States Presenters: Dr. Fredric K. Schroeder & Jeanine K. Lineback


The CISCO Academy for the Vision Impaired Presents CAVI Cast - Vocational
Rehabilitation for the blind in the United States

Presenters: Dr. Fredric K. Schroeder & Jeanine K. Lineback

When: Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 8:00 pm eastern Please check the time for
your time zone by going
to: <http://www.timeanddate.com/>http://www.timeanddate.com/

Where: Online - tt.cucat.org
We will be using the free conferencing system, TeamTalk. The TeamTalk
software can be downloaded from
<http://www.bearware.dk/index.php?section=products&pageid=tt4download#hdrmen
u>http://www.bearware.dk/index.php?section=products&pageid=tt4download#hdrme
nu
A guide for setting up and configuring TeamTalk for tt.cucat.org can be
found at
<http://www.cucat.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.SettingUpTeamtalk>http://www.cuc
at.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.SettingUpTeamtalk
The use of a headset is recommended.
This is a free online presentation.  We encourage participation from persons
in other countries as well as those from the U.S.


Topics to be discussed include:
.        The history of the rehabilitation system
.        Structure and legislation of the rehabilitation system
.        Getting the most out of your rehabilitation
.        Your Rights and responsibilities as a client
.        Take aways and lessons from the U.S. rehabilitation system
.        Rehabilitation models in other countries

.        Discussion & questions

About the Presenters
Dr. Fredric K. Schroeder has a long and distinguished career in service to
the blind. 
This year, at the Eighth General Assembly of the World Blind Union (WBU),
Dr. Schroeder was elected first vice president of theWBU.  He was appointed
as the commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
within the U.S. Department of Education, under President Bill Clinton. Dr.
Schroeder has held the office of the first vice president of the National
Federation of the Blind since 2006. He served as the first executive
director of the New Mexico Commission for the Blind. He now works as a
research professor specializing in leadership and public policy in
vocational rehabilitation, at San Diego State University and also serves as
president of the Virginia affiliate of the National Federation of the Blind.
You can read more about Dr. Fredric Schroeder at
<https://nfb.org/fredric-schroeder>https://nfb.org/fredric-schroeder.

             Jeanine K. Lineback has dedicated more than twenty years to
service of the blind. 
In 2012, she was elected as treasurer of the Assistive Technology Trainers
Division of the National Federation of the Blind and Chairperson of the
Technology Committee of the Texas affiliate of the National Federation of
the Blind. Her career began in 1991 as an adaptive technology trainer for
the University of Texas at Austin. In the summer of 1991, she accepted a
position with the Colorado Center for the Blind, where she became the
Technology Coordinator. She moved into private industry in 1997 providing
assistive technology training and consulting services. Ms. Lineback was
employed in 2008, as a Technology and Career Guidance instructor at the
Criss Cole Rehabilitation Center. Currently, she runs her own business,
Lineback Technology Solutions, providing assistive technology training and
consulting services and also serves as Second Vice President of the Austin
affiliate of the National Federation of the Blind of Texas. 
You can read more about Jeanine Lineback at
<http://www.linkedin.com/in/jlineback>http://www.linkedin.com/in/jlineback.


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