<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> nfbmd via Nfbnet-members-list <<a href="mailto:nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org">nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> May 15, 2015 at 1:15:47 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org">nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[Nfbnet-members-list] May Braille Monitor Available</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> nfbmd <<a href="mailto:nfbmd@earthlink.net">nfbmd@earthlink.net</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
The May edition of the Braille Monitor presents a fascinating examination
of the effect of attitudes on both policy making and personal
behavior. Marc Maurer gave an address to the 2015 Jacobus tenBroek
Law Symposium entitled <u>Improving and Augmenting the ADA,
Rehabilitation Act, and IDEAA Vision for the Next Twenty-Five Years:
Disability and the Law of the Poor.</u> This address which is
reprinted in the May Braille Monitor explains how both the attitudes of
society and the attitudes of the disabled themselves will determine
disability policy over the next 25 years. Read this stimulating
article to find out why Dr. Maurer thinks “the law should abandon the
practice of adopting rights for disabled people without creating a
corresponding set of remedies.”<br>
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The lack of employment is one of the greatest problems that blind people
face today. Dick Davis continues the theme of the effect of
attitudes in his article entitled <u>Blind People and Talking Dogs.<br>
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Attitudes effect individual behavior. Read <u>My West Virginia
Experience</u> by Dr. Donald C. Capps to see what shaped his attitude for
a lifetime of giving back to the NFB. How did Ronald A. Owens
acquire his positive attitude toward Braille? Read <u>Illiterate No
More</u> to find the answer to this question and to see how his attitude
toward Braille developed.<br>
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The struggle of changing attitudes is challenging and difficult.
Patti Chang and Kelsey Nicolay describe the personal struggle and reward
of changing attitudes. Patti Chang’s article is <u>Jumping the
Fire</u> and Kelsey Nicolay’s article is <u>My Journey Toward Winning
Friends and Influencing Others</u>. <br>
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Changing what it means to be blind is a lofty goal, but what does it
mean? The attitudes that shape the philosophy of the National
Federation of the Blind are eloquently explained in <u>The Barrier of the
Visible Difference</u> by Dr. Kenneth Jernigan. The statistics
presented in the article by Donna Hill, <u>Is Literacy Really for
Everyone?–The Numbers Tell a Different Story</u>, should compel us to
continue the work of the Federation. <br>
Read, heed, and succeed.<br>
Go to
<a href="https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm15/bm1505/bm1505tc.htm">
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm15/bm1505/bm1505tc.htm</a>
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Sharon Maneki<br>
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