[Md-sligo] FW: [nfb-talk] Fwd: Regarding Education
Brown, Debbie
dabro at loc.gov
Wed Mar 16 19:31:20 UTC 2011
This is for students who attended the public shools as a blind or low vision student. Please contact Karen Lemon directly.
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From: Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] Powers [mailto:Terry.Powers at nih.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:09 AM
To: Brown, Debbie
Subject: FW: [nfb-talk] Fwd: Regarding Education
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From: David Andrews [mailto:dandrews at visi.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:08 PM
To: david.andrews at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nfb-talk] Fwd: Regarding Education
>The President of the NFB of Nebraska is asking for assistance with an
>education project.
David Andrews
>
>Greetings Friends:
>
>Karen Lemmon, a long-time teacher and current president of our
>Panhandle Chapter here in Nebraska asks for your help with the below
>project.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>Amy Buresh, President, NFBN
>
>The GOOD and the BAD
>I am looking for information and stories of personal experiences of
>blind individuals who
>have been through, or are currently involved
>in our K-12 classrooms as a blind or low visioned student. All of us
>have stories to tell and I am asking now that you report instances in
>your education that made a positive difference for you in your learning
>experience. I also want to know the negative experiences you had as a
>blind student, or in other words, what did not work for you. You do not
>need to pass on names of instructors or the name of the school, unless
>of course you would like them to receive some positive mention. I would
>be appreciative if you would just submit to me two lists of what was
>good and what was bad. I did not go through our system of education as
>a blind student, as a matter of fact I taught school for 18 years in a
>system that had no plan to create the opportunity for blind and low
>visioned students to stay in the classroom and learn along side the
>sighted students. The information I receive from you will be very
>helpful in discussions in a college level class offered at Chadron
>State College titled 'Resources for teaching blind Individuals. (EDU
>270). Below is an example of some of the things that have been
>compiled this
>research: Information will be confidential and may be sent to me anonymously.
>Please email to: <mailto:klemmon at bbcwb.net>klemmon at bbcwb.net
>or mail to my address at: Karen Lemmon
> 104 Lemmon Road
> Whitney, NE 69367 My
>telephone number is 308-667-2054.
>
>
>
>
>GOOD __
>
>1. Examples of rocks and soils were labeled by my science teacher in
>braille so that when the samples were passed around the room I was able
>to feel what the rock or soil felt like and to identify it by name as
>it was passed around the room.
>
>2. A music teacher recorded my part on a cassette so that I could learn it .
>BAD____________________
>1. I had a teacher's aide assigned to me and she did most of the work
>for me which seemed pretty cool at the time, but as a result I know I
>missed out on a lot.
>2. I used magnification for everything but as my eyes got progressively
>worse I found myself unable to read as I was never taught braille.
>Please take part in this as it is very important that we can relay this
>information to our future teachers and we now have an outlet to do that
>at Chadron State College. since our work here is in progress, I would
>appreciate an immediate response.
>Thanks
>KLem
>
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