[Mdabs] FW: NABS Needs You! Tell Your Story!

[Chris Nusbaum]

MDABS Members:

 

Please see the below message from Justin Salisbury and consider submitting
your story. It is essential that we collect as many personal accounts of the
challenges faced every day by blind students as possible. We need to show
Congress that the problems the TEACH Act seeks to solve are real issues
faced by real students every day. Please help us pass the TEACH Act.
Together, we can transform our dream of full and equal access to higher
education into reality!

 

Chris

 

From: Nfbnet-students-list [mailto:nfbnet-students-list-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Justin Salisbury via Nfbnet-students-list
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2014 1:18 AM
To: nfbnet-students-list at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfbnet-students-list] NABS Needs You! Tell Your Story!

 

Calling All Blind Students!

 

NABS WANTS YOU to help PASS THE TEACH ACT!

 

You don't need to be a governmental expert to help; right now, we are asking
students with disabilities to write up their personal stories.

 

In order to participate actively in the effort of the National Federation of
the Blind to help more blind students get equal access in higher education,
NABS President Sean Whalen has created a task force. I am thrilled to be a
part of it! 

 

At this phase, we are collecting stories from blind students that
Federationists can give to the Senators and Congressmen who ask us if it
matters to their constituents. It really makes a difference when we hand
them a packet of testimonies. The task force has divided up the country and
is reaching out to students in every affiliate. 

 

Please tell us how inaccessible technology in higher education has held you
back. If you're the first blind student I've met who has always had equal
access, tell us that and how important it has been for your success. Every
story counts. Feel free to contact me with any questions. I have attached a
testimony that I wrote which has been effective. Feel free to mimic it if
you'd like, but please just tell your story.

 

We still want students to participate in every other method of passing the
TEACH Act, but this is one way that we can uniquely assist President
Riccobono and our fellow Federationists everywhere. Personal testimonies can
be sent to Kathryn Webster at kathrynwebster.nfb at gmail.com. 

 

Let's pass the TEACH Act!

 

Yours in Federationism,

 

 

Justin Salisbury - Running Thunder Phoenix

Graduate Student

Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness

Louisiana Tech University

Email: jms132 at latech.edu

Twitter: @SalisburyJustin

 

But, of course, we will not fail. We will continue to climb. Our heritage
demands it; our faith confirms it; our humanity requires it. Whatever the
sacrifice, we will make it. Whatever the price, we will pay it. Seen from
this perspective, the hostility and backlash (the challenges and
confrontations) are hardly worth noticing. They are only an irritant. My
brothers and my sisters, the future is ours. Come! Join me on the stairs,
and we will finish the journey. 

-          Dr. Kenneth Jernigan

 

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