[humanser] humanser Digest, Vol 139, Issue 5

[Short, Ericka Ms.]

I would talk to the national headquarters for the national Federation of the blind in Baltimore. They might know of resources that will send free overseas to help your students out. I know that Hadley courses are four people outside the USA but if you contact them they may be able to direct you to people who are looking to get rid of materials in braille or have course work not used any longer that can be a benefit. I understand what you're looking for and I am not really able to provide you with braille or much of anything else. I would say the Jernigan Institute or the American foundation for the blind could help you with educational materials for the students learning to work with blind individuals. If I see something I will contact you though. Keep up the work! 

Ericka Short
Licensed Wisconsin social worker
3020 87th Pl., Apt. 217
Kenosha, WI 53142
(262) 434–0817

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> Maybe I should give the world a little lesson on special education
> degree and how it works in Macedonia. This is a 4-year university
> degree mainly consisting of general courses regarding disability and
> if they decide to choose blindness as their specialty, they have more
> of these courses in their final years of study. Most of these courses
> are taught by Macedonian professors and are related to history,
> psychology and education for the blind and some are full of research
> and numbers regarding disability related figures  such as employment
> rate and a lot of the time they focus on matters that are long dealt
> with in most developed countries and that blind people faced 50 years
> or more ago.  These books are not very encouraging and realistic to
> describe some aspects of blindness to sighted students who are
> studying to work with us and I am glad that these students have the
> chance to visit our school a few times a year, do their observations
> there and hold a few lessons themselves. Braille and cane mobility are
> never taught to them at all and orientation and mobility doesn't even
> exist as a choice of study, but I was informed that they are making
> braille courses mendatory at the university now. As soon as I found
> out about this, I knew that my next task was to somehow do something
> to help them, so I started looking up for noncopyright materials to
> braille for them and asking editors of magazines and articles to allow
> me to braille their materials, hoping that this will help those
> students learn and enjoy reading braille and learn lots more about
> different aspects of blindness and what life is like for us. I am
> brailling everything by hand with my Perkins brailler, because even if
> I find magazines I can pass onto them, they are all in grade two, so I
> am making everything in grade one for them. If anyone else would like
> to help me do this, has their articles or knows of good articles and
> people that would be willing to share theirs with those students or
> could even provide me with special education course or other materials
> in print, audio or electronic format that could help them in their
> learning, feel free to email me at:
> adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com
> so we can talk about it. We would all appreciate your help.
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