[Nfbwv-talk] Check This Out

[Smyth, Charlene R]

Jack, 

You are welcome. We watched it last night and found it to be very good.
The NFB also got mentioned by one of the children.  

I really enjoyed what the children had to say and I appreciate how far
we have come over the decades and the difference the advances in
technology has made.  With that being said, the children, unfortunately,
are still struggling with the same issues that we had as children which
goes to show that the work by all of us, through the NFB, must still go
on.  

Charlene


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Jack Yahnke
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Thanks Charlene,

I wish that I had seen this message yesterday.

Jack

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From: "charlene smyth" <cs.nfbwv at frontier.com>
To: "NFB of West Virginia Discussion List" <nfbwv-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 6:34 PM
Subject: [Nfbwv-talk] Check This Out


> Blind Kids Share Their Stories in Nick News with Linda Ellerbee "Out
of 
> Sight: How
> Blind Kids See the World"
> Airing Monday, Jan. 28, at 8PM (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon
> NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2013 - Kids describe what it's like to live without

> sight in the
> brand-new Nick News with Linda Ellerbee special, "Out of Sight: How
Blind 
> Kids See
> the World," premiering Monday, Jan. 28, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on
Nickelodeon. 
> They discuss
> the challenges and
> opportunities
> they face living in blindness.
> "There are actually people who will stay away from us or won't talk to

> us," says
> 15-year-old Alyssa of Colorado Springs, Colo. "I had a friend - we
were 
> really good
> friends - and after I went blind, he stopped coming around."
> "Some people see my blindness as an easy target for bullying, for 
> ridicule. You know,
> taking advantage of my blindness," says 14-year-old Chris of
Baltimore, 
> Md.
> The special discusses how many blind kids know more about what they
can do 
> than what
> they cannot and how they use technologies to help them navigate a 
> "sighted" world.
> "Some people choose their clothes by using their vision," says
15-year-old 
> Santiago
> of Hollister, Calif. "I use an
> application
> on my phone that tells me the color of my clothes."
> 10-year-old Xin Ju says she sees being blind as an advantage. "I don't

> need to see
> something to believe in it. We use our hearts and our imaginations."
> "We've listened to what these kids tell us," says Ellerbee. "What they

> want sighted
> kids to know about them which is, in most cases, that they are just 
> regular kids.
> But me, I think they're pretty special."
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