[Nfbmt] The May edition of the Braille Monitor

[Sheila Leigland]

thanks for posting this. this is exactly why I tried to bring up the 
htopic on thursday night.

On 5/16/2015 3:42 AM, Bruce&Joy Breslauer via Nfbmt wrote:
> For your information.  Joy
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> The May edition of the Braille Monitor presents a fascinating examination of
> the effect of attitudes on both policy making and personal behavior.  Marc
> Maurer gave an address to the 2015 Jacobus tenBroek Law Symposium entitled
> Improving and Augmenting the ADA, Rehabilitation Act, and IDEA-A Vision for
> the Next Twenty-Five Years: Disability and the Law of the Poor.  This
> address which is reprinted in the May Braille Monitor explains how both the
> attitudes of society and the attitudes of the disabled themselves will
> determine disability policy over the next 25 years.  Read this stimulating
> article to find out why Dr. Maurer thinks "the law should abandon the
> practice of adopting rights for disabled people without creating a
> corresponding set of remedies."
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> The lack of employment is one of the greatest problems that blind people
> face today.  Dick Davis continues the theme of the effect of attitudes in
> his article entitled Blind People and Talking Dogs.
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> Attitudes effect individual behavior.  Read My West Virginia Experience by
> Dr. Donald C. Capps to see what shaped his attitude for a lifetime of giving
> back to the NFB.  How did Ronald A. Owens acquire his positive attitude
> toward Braille?  Read Illiterate No More to find the answer to this question
> and to see how his attitude toward Braille developed.
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> The struggle of changing attitudes is challenging and difficult.  Patti
> Chang and Kelsey Nicolay describe the personal struggle and reward of
> changing attitudes.  Patti Chang's article is Jumping the Fire and Kelsey
> Nicolay's article is My Journey Toward Winning Friends and Influencing
> Others.
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> Changing what it means to be blind is a lofty goal, but what does it mean?
> The attitudes that shape the philosophy of the National Federation of the
> Blind are eloquently explained in The Barrier of the Visible Difference by
> Dr. Kenneth Jernigan.  The statistics presented in the article by Donna
> Hill, Is Literacy Really for Everyone?-The Numbers Tell a Different Story,
> should compel us to continue the work of the Federation.
> Read, heed, and succeed.
> Go to https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm15/bm1505/bm1505tc.htm
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> Sharon Maneki
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> P.S.  You can also go to www.nfb.org/publications/braillemonitor and read or
> listen to it online, or you can request to receive The Braille Monitor in
> large print or Braille, on USB drive or by email.  It is also available on
> NFB-Newsline, or for download to your mobile device.
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> Joy Breslauer, President
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> National Federation of the Blind of Montana
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> www.nfbofmt.org
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> Live the life you want
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> characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
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> between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
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