[nabs-l] Rehab Counselors, and ignorance of blindness

Wed Jan 11 22:41:47 UTC 2012

Lea,
Sometimes people feel they need to complain and vent to other blind people 
who understand.
I think it’s a fair expectation for a rehab counselor that works with blind 
clients full time to know a little bit about assistive technology.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Lea williams
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:33 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Rehab Counselors, and ignorance of blindness

josh i can see if your counsular bot your a different item than what
you guys agreed to because of the lack of knowledge, but slipping and
calling it some other name is normal to all people. And everyone has
to start someplace, not everyone is going to come out of the box ready
to go knowing everything. I am sure you will understand this if or
when you get a job oneday yourself.

and I think that it is a good idea to keep things respectful, in
cluding the language, the manner in wich we speak to eachother and
about other people. We are not the only one's who gets these emails.
Many people such as, parents, rehab counsulars, teachers and so many
other people could be signed up on this list.

Gloria says in one of her emails that is a great example of this.

beginning of email

I came to this site because I thought it was a place where students
can get help from other experienced students on accomidations or other
things regarding college and possibly the work world. This cite has
been a disapointment because I only hear people ganging up and
complaing about others who have no control of what is going on. I
don't think this cite and its users would want to be known as
complainers. Please find some possitivity in the world.

End of email

Hope gives some good opinions.

Beginning of email

This was probably just an honest mistake from your counselor. There
are many pieces of assistive technology out there and a lot to
remember for those people who don't even use it.  My  former vr
counselor couldn't remember the name for the vr stream. She called it
a stream reader. Something as small as this mistake should be
overlooked. I don't think she meant anything by it.

End of email

I personally avoid any email thread for the most part with particular
peoples names in them because of their carictor and bad behavior and
habbits.
This is something that I hope will change and will be taken care of.

On 1/11/12, Gloria G <gloria.graves at gmail.com> wrote:
> can we please move on and stop feeding into the complants
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hope Paulos" <hope.paulos at gmail.com>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Rehab Counselors, and ignorance of blindness
>
>
>> This was probably just an honest mistake from your counselor. There are
>> many pieces of assistive technology out there and a lot to remember for
>> those people who don't even use it.  My  former vr counselor couldn't
>> remember the name for the vr stream. She called it a stream reader.
>> Something as small as this mistake should be overlooked. I don't think 
>> she
>>
>> meant anything by it.
>>
>> Just my opinion.
>>
>> Hope
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Carly" <carlymih at earthlink.net>
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>; "National Association of Blind Students mailing 
>> list"
>>
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Rehab Counselors, and ignorance of blindness
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Joshua,
>>>
>>> What a self centered, insensitive response to workers who, as a rule are
>>> way overworked! It isn't all about you and your PackMate which, in my
>>> opinionis a piece of shit anyway.
>>> Besides, are you trying to tell us that you have never used a wrong 
>>> term,
>>>
>>> particularly about something with which you have ZERO, familiarity?
>>> PLEASE!
>>> centeAt 08:02 AM 1/11/2012, Anjelina wrote:
>>>>Joshua,
>>>>I don't mean any disrespect, but could it have been a mistake by your
>>>>rehab counselor?
>>>>At times I mix up words or call items by different names; I don't think
>>>>this is a matter of ignorance.
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message----- From: Joshua Lester
>>>>Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:26 AM
>>>>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>>>>Subject: [nabs-l] Rehab Counselors, and ignorance of blindness
>>>>
>>>>Hi, it's Joshua Lester.
>>>>I'd like to discuss a topic, that has come up, in my life.
>>>>I was telling you, that I might receive a Pac Mate, from my Rehab 
>>>>office.
>>>>I'm not sure, if I told you, that my Rehab counselor slipped, and
>>>>called it a "Packman."
>>>>That's crazy, because I thought rehab counselors should, at least,
>>>>have some knowledge of assistive technology, for the blind, that
>>>>they're supposed to be assisting.
>>>>Has anyone had trouble in the past, with Rehab counselors, in regards to
>>>>this?
>>>>What can we do, to stop this ignorance from spreading, within the
>>>>state VR system?
>>>>Thanks, Joshua
>>>>
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