[Nfbwv-talk] Check This Out

[Jack Yahnke]

Amen, sister!

Jack

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Smyth, Charlene R" <Charlene.R.Smyth at wv.gov>
To: "NFB of West Virginia Discussion List" <nfbwv-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbwv-talk] Check This Out


> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbwv-talk [mailto:nfbwv-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Jack Yahnke
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 10:45 AM
> To: NFB of West Virginia Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Nfbwv-talk] Check This Out
>
> Thanks Charlene,
>
> I wish that I had seen this message yesterday.
>
> Jack
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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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