[Nfbv-announce] it is time to start thinking about summer fun and Blind Industries and Services of Maryland Independence

[John Bailey]

Spring is almost here, so it is time to start thinking about summer fun and
Blind Industries and Services of Maryland Independence 2011! 

 

Last year Independence 2010 was a great success and this year it is going to
be even better. 

 

Independence 2011 is a seven-week residential program where blind and low
vision youth entering into the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades in the fall of
2011 will have the opportunity to learn the nonvisual skills of blindness
from successful blind instructors. We will return to the campus of Towson
University, where students will live in apartments with their blind adult
instructors/mentors and learn how to manage their own apartment, cook,
clean, grocery shop, manage money, wash clothes, to name just a few things.
Not only will students of the seven-week residential program learn the
skills of blindness through classes such as cane travel, Braille,
computer/technology, and independent living (Home Ec.) but they are going to
be able to gain that much needed resume builder - paid employment. With
these economic times, who doesn't need a little extra spending money?
Students will have the opportunity to work a total of 30-40 hours in the
community during the last two weeks of the program. 

 

Independence 2011 is going to attend the national convention of the National
Federation of the Blind in Orlando, FL and participate in the National
Federation of the Blind Youth Slam and we can't forget spend a day having
fun in Disney World. Then, there are the times that we explore Baltimore,
Towson, visit our Nation's capital, attend an O's game, go swimming, check
out a movie or two and we can't forget those evenings of playing cards until
the wee hours of morning.

 

Sound fun!?! You better believe it! 

 

Dates: June 19 - August 5, 2011 

 

For more information about Independence 2011, feel free to email me at
aphelps at bism.org and please forward this to youth, parents, teachers, and
blindness professionals. 

 

 

Warm regards, 

 

Amy C. Phelps, CRC, NOMC

 

Help sponsor our youth program activities Donate
<https://npo.networkforgood.org/Donate/Donate.aspx?npoSubscriptionId=100
3647>  

Check out information about our summer youth program: Independence 2011
<http://bism.org/r_youth_TEMP_2.cfm>  

Take the NCLB at BISM  in Baltimore on March 26. For information: 
National Certification in Literary Braille
<http://www.nbpcb.org/pages/NCLBcertification.php> 

 

Blind Industries and Services of Maryland

3345 Washington Blvd

Baltimore, MD 21227

Phone: 410-737-2642

Mobile: 410-274-1647

Fax: 410-737-2689

Toll Free: 888-322-4567

E-mail: aphelps at bism.org <mailto:aphelps at bism.org> 

 

"...given proper training and opportunity, the average blind person can do
the average job in the average place of business and do it as well as his or
her sighted neighbor..." Freedom for the Blind, James H. Omvig

 

 

 

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