[nabs-l] Commission for the Blind rejected funding for CCB

[T. Joseph Carter]

I had the Oregon Commission for the Blind tell me that they do not send 
people to NFB training centers.  They have their own, you see.

I had an evaluation.  I told them that my goal was mastery learning of the 
skills of blindness--skills I did not possess.  I told them that my 
timetable for such mastery was one year prior to the beginning of a 
graduate school program.

Their own evaluation was that if I did not have the skills, I should learn 
them (obvious), and that their own training center could not provide them 
in the timespan available to me (important), and that the only place such 
mastery was possible in less than a year was at our centers.

Their own evaluation concluded that I must go to an NFB training center, 
and so that is where I went.  I got what I went there to get, too.  They 
simply refused to hear of it, though, until their own evaluation 
demonstrated the necessity.

Joseph

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:06:08PM -0500, Liz Bottner wrote:
>Hi, 
>
>I, too, have had my state refuse to pay to send me to a training center. I
>don't really know how to get around that or even if I would have a good
>enough argument to go, so I've just dropped it for now. 
>
>Liz 
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