[nabs-l] Blind training and its affect on a career

[Christopher Kchao]

Jim,
I think the bigger issue at hand is whether YOU yourself think that your
vision is "good enough" or "bad enough." That should be the main determining
factor. Once you make that decision for yourself, you can figure out the
paperwork later. For many people who may even have partial vision, that
decision is simple and a matter of doing what makes the most sense. You
ultimately have to decide if using your residual vision is making your life
more complicated than it has to be or not. For example, it's one thing to
require a little bit of magnification for reading print on a computer screen
and another to have magnification set to 16 or 20x while the person still
struggles to read and gets frequent headaches from doing so. I personally am
totally blind but in my opinion, it's a matter of competence. I'd rather be
a competent blind person using nonvisual techniques as opposed to an
incompetent sighted person struggling with what little bit of vision they
have just so they don't have to "be blind."

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Jim Reed
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:21 PM
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Subject: [nabs-l] Blind training and its affect on a career

Hello,

I was just wondering, if a blind person reaches a stage in life where blind
training becomes nesicary, is that person's employer required to hold that
person's job open until they return from training (similar to maternity
leave or National Guard deployment)?

Next semester is my last semester of grad school. If I am going to go to a
training center, the gap between grad school and "real life" would be the
perfect time to do it. But like I said the other day, I just don't know if
my vision is bad enough to justify VR paying for it (unless I can convince
them that it will benifit my career in the long run).

Thoughts?
Jim

Homer Simpson's brain: "Use reverse psychology." 
 Homer: "Oh, that sounds too complicated." 
 Homer's brain: "Okay, don't use reverse psychology."
 Homer: "Okay, I will!"


      
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