[Nfbofsc] FW: For email distribution: NFB Braille Enrichment for Literacy and Learning Academy, Spartanburg, SC

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Sat Apr 9 01:39:10 UTC 2016 

I will remove you.

Dave

At 05:24 PM 4/8/2016, you wrote:
>How can I be removed from this mailing list?
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>Thank you!
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>On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:11 AM, David Houck via 
>Nfbofsc <<mailto:nfbofsc at nfbnet.org>nfbofsc at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>From: Jennifer Duffell-Hoffman [mailto:jaduffell at yahoo.com]
>Sent: Friday, April 08, 2016 8:36 AM
>To: Marty McKenzie; David Houck; 
><mailto:jfarmer at tvisc.org>jfarmer at tvisc.org; Jamie Allison
>Subject: For email distribution: NFB Braille 
>Enrichment for Literacy and Learning Academy, Spartanburg, SC
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>NFB BELL Academy
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>Braille Enrichment for Literacy and Learning
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>Lilly using her learning shades and practicing writing the alph
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>Details of the Academy
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>Chase wearing his learning shades with his glasses over them ma
>NFB BELL Academy provides children ages 4-12 
>with intense Braille instruction through fun, 
>hands-on learning activities. NFB BELL Academy 
>targets blind and low-vision children who do not 
>receive enough Braille and nonvisual skill 
>instruction in school or who could benefit from 
>Braille enrichment over the summer. NFB BELL 
>Academy typically runs Monday through Friday for 
>six hours each day for two weeks. In addition 
>to Braille crafts, games, and other engaging 
>projects, children learn vital independent 
>living skills, benefit from peer learning and 
>mentoring from blind adults, and enjoy field 
>trips to sites related to the NFB BELL Academy curriculum.
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>English application:Â 
><https://nfb.org/bell-summer-program-form>https://nfb.org/bell-summer-program-form. 
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>Spanish application:Â 
><https://nfb.org/node/2672?lang=es>https://nfb.org/node/2672?lang=es.Â
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>English permission and release forms:Â 
><https://nfb.org/bell-permission-and-release-forms>https://nfb.org/bell-permission-and-release-forms. 
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>Spanish permission and release forms:Â 
><https://nfb.org/node/2686>https://nfb.org/node/2686.Â
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>NFB BELL Academy South Carolina students, from 
>the previous two years, showed significant 
>Braille, white cane and nonvisual skills 
>acquisition and improvement along with increased 
>self-confidence. The lead teacher, Jamie 
>Allison, is a certified teacher and a blind 
>woman who is a Braille reader and white cane 
>user. The state coordinator, Jennifer 
>Duffell-Hoffman is the mother of two blind 
>teenage sons and one sighted preteen son. All 
>volunteers are experienced with teaching 
>nonvisual skills and have a positive attitude 
>toward blindness and all volunteers are background checked.Â
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>NFB BELL Academy will be housed on the campus 
>of South Carolina School for the Deaf and the 
>Blind, July 18-29, Monday to Friday, 8:15-3:00 
>daily. We do not provide overnight 
>accommodations or transportation. Lunch and 
>snack are provided. There is a $40.00 fee; 
>please contact Jennifer if the fee is cost 
>prohibitive.  Any questions or concerns can be 
>addressed to Jennifer at 
><tel:803-287-5391>803-287-5391 or 
><mailto:jaduffell at yahoo.com>jaduffell at yahoo.com.
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>For information for the concurrent NFB of SC 
>Teenage Enrichment and Empowerment through 
>Nonvisual Skills (TEENS) for ages 13-17/18, 
>non-high school graduates, please contact 
>Jennifer at <tel:803-287-5391>803-287-5391. NFB 
>SC TEENS will run the week of July 25.Â
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>For further NFB BELL Academy information 
>including programs nationwide;Â 
><https://nfb.org/bell-academy>https://nfb.org/bell-academy.
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>Jennifer A. Duffell-Hoffman
>NFB BELL Academy, South Carolina Coordinator
>SC Parents of Blind Children, State President
>Lancaster, South Carolina
>Mobile: <tel:803-287-5391>803-287-5391
>E-mail: <mailto:jaduffell at yahoo.com>jaduffell at yahoo.com
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>The National Federation of the Blind knows that 
>blindness is not the characteristic that defines 
>you or your future. Every day we raise the 
>expectations of blind people, because low 
>expectations create obstacles between blind 
>people and our dreams. You can have the life you 
>want; blindness is not what holds you back.Â
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