[nfbwatlk] Advocates concerned as Oregon School for the Blind nears end, ...

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Its seems that the Government doesn't care what happens to the blind when  
the school is closed. I hope that they are out of a job next year or very 
soon.  Lisa Own
 
 
In a message dated 8/27/2009 12:17:24 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ricks291 at clear.net writes:

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
----- Original Message -----  
From: "Nightingale, Noel" <Noel.Nightingale at ed.gov>
To:  <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:51  AM
Subject: [nfbwatlk] Advocates concerned as Oregon School for the Blind  
nears 
end, OregonLive.com, August 25 2009


>
>  Link:
>  
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/advocates_concerned_as_oregon.html
>
>  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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