[Ohio-talk] Fw: Independence 2010!

[Dr. Smith]

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Dr. J. Webster Smith
President National Federation of the Blind of Ohio
P.O.BOX 458 Athens, Ohio, 45701-0458
Phone Number - 740-592-6326 
"Changing What it Means to be Blind"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Amy Phelps 
To: jwsmithnfb at verizon.net ; cconley at fuse.net ; blindchildren at verizon.net 
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:31 PM
Subject: Independence 2010!


 
Blind Industries and Services of Maryland is pleased to announce Independence 2010--a six-week residential summer program for blind and low vision high school teens. The students of Independence 2010 will participate in a fun, action packed comprehensive six-week program that will focus on learning the nonvisual skills which are essential for teens to successfully transition from high school to college or employment. Students of Independence 2010 will live in apartments supervised by adult blind mentors/instructors who will incorporate budgeting, maintaining a home, preparing meals, doing laundry, and shopping for groceries.  

 

Independence 2010 will include cane travel, independent living skills, assistive technology, Braille, physical fitness, philosophy class, career exploration, and several confidence building activities including attending the 2010 National Convention of the National Federation of the Blind in Dallas, Texas. In addition to learning the skills of blindness, students will have fun learning from successful blind role models and participate in exciting confidence building activities such as playing goalball, attending a summer festival, watching movies under the stars, enjoying the Inner Harbor and Little Italy to name just a few.  

 

Who can apply: 

Legally blind high school students who are entering into 10th, 11th , or 12th  grades in the fall of 2010 and have open cases with their state's vocational rehabilitation agency or who have an alternative funding source 

 

The dates of the program are June 20 - August 1, 2010 and the application packets are attached. 

 

For more information or if you have any questions, please email me at aphelps at bism.org or call me at 410-737-2642. 

 

 

Warm regards, 

 

Amy C. Phelps  

 

Amy C. Phelps, CRC, NOMC

Director of Rehabilitation Services 

 

Blind Industries and Services of Maryland

3345 Washington Blvd

Baltimore, MD 21227

Phone: 410-737-2642

Mobile: 410-274-1647

Fax: 410-737-2689

Toll Free: 888-322-4567

E-mail: aphelps at bism.org

Web site: www.bism.org

 

"A frog in a well, can only see its piece of the sky" ~Unknown

 

 

 

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