[nfbwatlk] Advocates concerned as Oregon School for the Blind nears end, OregonLive.com, August 25 2009

[Vincent Ricks]

Hello: you all in Oregon I can ill the same for your blind students there in 
your state withou a school for the blind. Because Ifill this will set back 
the accoplishes we come in the last seventy years for the improvement of 
bind students , and adults these I mean without the right trining inbraille 
for readinng and writting, and molbilty how can these sudents make it in 
society when there are not enoth braille teachers and orintation and 
molibilty instructers.
Vincent
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> Text:
> Advocates concerned as Oregon School for the Blind nears end
> by The Associated Press
> Tuesday August 25, 2009, 12:03 PM
>
> SALEM -- The Oregon School for the Blind will close its doors in less than 
> a week.
>
> The decision to shut the school means 28 students are trying to adjust to 
> life elsewhere.
>
> Advocates for the students are worried the services they receive at other 
> schools won't compare to what School for the Blind offered.
>
> The process for disbursing a $3 million trust to help provide those 
> services hasn't been established yet. And some district staffers say the 
> transition has been rushed.
>
> Salem-Keizer's special-education department, however, is ready for the six 
> blind students headed there.
>
> The district already has physical and occupational therapists and Braille 
> specialists on staff, and the students will be added to their caseloads.
>
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