[NFB-Braille-Discussion] Looking for some Input on Teaching Braille to a Low Vision Student

[Jody ianuzzi]

I can think of one message to the parents. To be perfectly blunt. My parents and many other parents had the same attitude towards their children's loss of vision. Vision loss is devastating enough without the added emotional complications of parents denial. My parents felt that way and I resent them for it 70 years later!

Maybe you could come right down and ask the parents how old they feel 70 years from now when their child Resents them for what they are doing today. Ask them what is really more important.
JODY

To Boldly Go  🖖🏻 


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"What's within you is stronger than what's in your way."  NO BARRIERS  Erik Weihenmayer

> On Feb 15, 2024, at 10:20 PM, Susan Jolly via NFB-Braille-Discussion <nfb-braille-discussion at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> It sounds like an extremely difficult situation to deal with.
> 
> It might be helpful to try to understand why the parents have the misguided beliefs that they do. It could be just some unique thing about them.  If so might be that a social worker could help them understand that their daughter would be more helpful if she had better  blindness skills.
> 
> It might be due to their culture or some belief system they have.   In that case, it might be possible that you could work with  a leader that’s involved in the same culture or whatever it is causing their beliefs and see if that person could help.
> 
> It’s of course difficult to respect people that act in ways that just seem cruel but putting the  parents on the defensive is probably not going to help.
> 
> Best wishes,  Susan J
> 
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