<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Fyi<br><br>Trudy L Pickrel<div>President MD Parents Blind Children</div><div>Owner TLC by the Lake poodles</div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Kate Streit <<a href="mailto:Kate@hadley.edu">Kate@hadley.edu</a>><br><b>Date:</b> March 23, 2012 3:23:18 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:tlpickrel@hotmail.com">tlpickrel@hotmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:tlpickrel@hotmail.com">tlpickrel@hotmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Press Release: Hadley Family Education Courses Now Available on eReaders</b><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The following press release about Hadley courses for parents of visually impaired children may be of interest to members of your state’s chapter of NOBPC. Please pass this information along in any email listserves, newsletters, on your
Web site, etc. If you have any questions, please let me know.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Hadley School for the Blind now offers three courses in its Family Education Program in a new medium—eBook. Upon enrollment, students will receive a link to the download page, where they can select a format appropriate for their eBook
reader. Hadley eBook courses are compatible with Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader, iBooks app for iPhone/iPod/iPad, and any other eBook reader that accepts ePub or MobiPocket file formats.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The courses include You, Your Child and Your Community, Beginning the Special Education Journey and How to Be Your Child's Advocate. Hadley’s Family Education courses are offered tuition-free to parents or grandparents of a blind or severely
visually impaired child as well as spouses, adult daughters or sons, or adult siblings of a blind or severely visually impaired adult. The eBook format is especially convenient for busy parents on the go.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hadley has provided tuition-free distance education courses to its blind and visually impaired students and their families and affordable tuition courses to blindness professionals since 1920. Since 2002, the school has offered online courses.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“We have now been offering online courses for ten years. As we pass this important milestone, we move into the next phase of online education—mobile learning, or mLearning—which offers students the ability to complete coursework from their
mobile devices, thus enabling them to on the go, on demand. I am excited to on the cutting edge of this important trend in technology and distance education,” says Hadley President Chuck Young.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For more information about Hadley’s courses available on eReaders or the school’s mLearning initiative, please visit
<a href="http://www.hadley.edu">www.hadley.edu</a>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>About Hadley:</b> Founded in 1920, The Hadley School for the Blind’s mission is to promote independent living through lifelong, distance education programs for people who are blind or visually impaired, their families and blindness
service providers. The world’s largest educator of braille, Hadley enrolls 10,000 students in all 50 states and 100 countries each year. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.hadley.edu">www.hadley.edu</a> or call 800-323-4238.</p>
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