[NABS-L] NFB Center’s Adult Training Program

[Mariya Vasileva]

First off, Jessica, just because you had a bad experience doesn’t mean that everybody that went to that center had a bad experience, it is what you make it in the end. I have heard very few bad stories about that center and about the other two, no place is perfect. But I will say that the good experiences with that center and the other two, override the bad. Secondly, Haoran, the location did affect the travel aspect. Because like I said before, you do travel training in a big city, you get access to utilizing public transportation directly instead of going to a bigger city from a small town like you would in Ruston for the Louisiana Center. Lastly, Rona, when I went to the summer program at Louisiana, I took the greyhound bus for the first time in my life by myself there, and I flew back. For BLIND Inc, I took a plane there and back, though by that point, it was not my first time flying by myself.

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> On Jan 18, 2019, at 15:56, Haoran Wen via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for response!
> 
> You mentioned that you attened both the LCB's and BLIND inc's program,
> which one would you recommend?
> Also, did the location play part in the over experience?
> 
> Thanks,
> Haoran
> 
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:17 PM Mariya Vasileva via NABS-L <
> nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Haoran. All three centers from Colorado, Louisiana, and Minnesota,
>> teach non-visual structure discovery techniques to enhance the lives of
>> blind adults alike. I attended the Louisiana Center for the blind in Ruston
>> Louisiana during the summer of 2012, and you walk around everywhere you go
>> because it is a small town and if you want to do public transportation
>> assignments, you have to go with a center staff like your travel instructor
>> for example, to a bigger city that has buses that you can learn on how to
>> utilize. Otherwise, you’ll learn the same kind of travel skills that you
>> would learn in the other two centers. With computers, braille, woodshop or
>> learning how to build things and utilize power and regular tools, and of
>> course doing house management stuff, you learn just as equally and just as
>> efficiently as all three centers. For Minneapolis, and Littleton, where the
>> Minnesota and Colorado centers are located, everything else is the same as
>> far as skilled teaching, but the travel experiences are a bit better
>> because for both cities, you have direct public transportation that you can
>> access and utilize right on the spot to learn how to use in every major
>> city. For the small towns, of course you learn how to utilize other travel
>> techniques to get around just the same. The Colorado Center for the blind
>> is the one in Colorado, and BLIND Inc or blindness learning in new
>> dimensions Inc. is the one that is located in Minnesota just for your
>> reference. Although you may have different experiences at each and every
>> center, the affects of over 90% of their graduates is the same, you become
>> more competent and more self sufficient in order to do whatever it is you
>> want to do without allowing society to tell you otherwise. I also attended
>> BLIND Inc during their adult program from 2014 to 2015. If you have any
>> questions as to the details of how these training programs are different
>> from the traditional, let me or anyone else on this list that’s an NFB
>> center graduate no, we would be happy to help.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jan 17, 2019, at 23:21, Haoran Wen via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> I an a visually impared student attending university in New Jersey. I
>>> thinking of taking some time off from school to attend one of the NFB
>>> traning centers’ adult program to learn more non-visual skills and
>>> depend less on my vision.
>>> 
>>> I am looking for some advise on which NFB training center I should go to.
>>> Has anyone attended the program at the training centers, if you have,
>>> would you be willing to share your thoughts and expereince? Also, does
>>> the location of the center play a part of the program? (For example: a
>>> metropolitan location vs suburban location)
>>> 
>>> I would really appriecate any information.
>>> 
>>> Thank you very much,
>>> Haoran
>>> 
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