[Nfbf-l] Provider Training

[Mark]

Great, thank you.
Mark Tardif
You can't hug your loved ones with nuclear arms
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From: "Denise" <dvalkema at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Provider Training


> Easter Seals Project Action has many helpful tools including a new 
> sensitivity training DVD "Access Matters" available for free.  I saw the 
> DVD at the Transportation Disadvantaged Conference recently in Orlando. 
> Below is a contact name that might help.
> Kristi Ross
> Training and Special Assistance Specialist
> kross at easterseals.com
> www.projectaction.org
>
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> From: "Mark" <markspark at bellsouth.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:30 PM
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] Provider Training
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>> Greetings,
>>
>> I recently attended a public hearing concerning transportation in Martin 
>> County, Florida, where we live, and one of the suggestions was that we do 
>> something to train subcontractors and drivers in how to work more 
>> effectively with blind persons.  We have had some minor problems, drivers 
>> screaming at us as though we were deaf and perhaps not so bright, for 
>> example.  After the hearing, the local coordinator of our transportation 
>> system suggested we set up something for this purpose, including possibly 
>> using videos.  Does the national office have anything like this directed 
>> at sighted people who regularly work with blind persons that we might 
>> purchase?  Thank you.
>> Mark Tardif
>> You can't hug your loved ones with nuclear arms
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