[Ohio-talk] Fw: services for the blind

[richard payne]

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Richard Payne president Miami Valley chapter nfb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: joyyou 
To: richard payne 
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: services for the blind


Mr. Payne,

At the Commission meeting today, we voted to maintain the Bureau of Services to Visually Impaired and the Bureau of Services to Disability separate, although we were pleased to hear of the many cost-cutting efforts of both Bureaus, which included coooperative efforts.

Thanks for your note,

Joyce Young
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: richard payne 
  To: joyyou at woh.rr.com ; jrsensky at aol.com ; bauerm at marietta.edu ; growick.1 at osu.edu ; licatej at roadrunner.com ; davidtwilliams at oh.rr.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:21 AM
  Subject: services for the blind


  Point of information so you could please keep in support  of separate services for the blind.
  * Vr counselors who assist consumers who are blind must have expertise in a
  multitude of highly specialized services, such as orientation and mobility
  instruction and rehabilitation teaching. This expertise can be attained only
  through separate service bureaus.



  * In recognition of the above, states that once had combined services are
  separating services for the blind. For example, Georgia has recently created
  a department of services for the blind to provide vocational rehabilitation
  and other specialized services to blind people.