[nabs-l] Training centers not real world

[minh ha]

Printed newspaper articles are all online. I have to find news
articles all the time for my classes and I've never had a problem
accessing them online, even the obscure ones.

On 11/13/13, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Bridgit,
> no it was involving regular print newspapers.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bridgit Pollpeter
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:32 PM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nabs-l] Training centers not real world
>
> Ashley,
>
> Couldn't you have accessed newspapers via online or even newsline? I had
> to scour newspapers for an English class and one of my public relations
> classes, and I accessed them online with few problems.
>
> Bridgit
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:01:25 -0500
> From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
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> RJ,
> I'm in the minority here. But I have the same questions.
> I have to wonder if the students at the nfb centers really got all the
> skills and confidence they need to get out and find a job.
> I, too, have met some blind people  who went to centers who are not
> employed.
> I have not met anyone sitting at home with family. But they do sit
> around
> collecting welfare checks in order to live a basic life.
> Its very very sad.
> RJ, it just goes to show that no matter what training you get, it does
> not
> gaurantee success.
> Some people simply don't have the gusto or advocacy skills to get jobs.
> Its
> harder to get a job as a blind person.
> You have to advocate and educate the employers. I remember  calling up a
>
> nonprofit, national crime prevention council,
> NCPC, to get a communications internship. I was responding to an ad on
> my
> school's career  database.
> I had to explain who I was and see if the job was too visual  to do. It
> turns out that I could not do a main part of the job as it involved
> reading
> newspapers to search for certain stories.
> So, long story short, I explained I could not read printed newspapers
> but I
> could do other tasks and said what it was.
> I had to sell my skills in order not to be written off.
> So, they made another internship for me and I still did a few
> communications
> tasks  like press releases.
> But, I had to do some advocacy and education; I had to explain jaws too
> and
> they were accomodating as I installed jaws there.
>
> So I got that unpaid internship.
> It takes a lot to get a job.
> Just because we have a large unemployment rate,  does not mean centers
> are
> bad.
> Oh, and I do not believe the statistic anyway; I think its an inflated
> lie.
> Everyone I know in nfb is employed except for a few people in other
> chapters.
> I also think that 70 percent stat is way outdated and it includes people
>
> with multiple disabilities.
>
> So, to conclude, no center is perfect but I'd have to say it does a lot
> to
> help you be an independent person in life.
>
> Ashley
>
>
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