[Ohio-talk] ADL Skills

[meandthedog at oberlin.net]

>Social skills are important. The main reasons blind people don't have
jobs or who have been
skipped is plain discrimination. That is why the NFB was founded. it is
time we get back to the
beginning and realize that 6o
 unemployment doesn't have anything to do with
inappropriate behavior.
We spend more time on computer issues, and must find a way to spend time
on real
job possibilities for our working class and low income blind folks. Megan
and MS.P.




 I also wish the centers had been around earlier.  Unfortunately, some
> blind people find jobs but because they don't have appropriate life
> skills or social skills they cannot maintain employment.  Working is
> so much more than having a job.  I wish we had an NFB center closer to
> Ohio.
>
> Kelsey, I hope everything goes well for you.  When you get independent
> living training at home it is important that you practice your new
> skills between lessons. Lot os luck and tell us what your job will be.
> On 4/17/07, COLLEEN ROTH via Ohio-talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>  Hello Everyone,
>> Some of you might have missed something in Kelsey's email. She has a job
>> working from home.
>> I am not sure about OOD paying for a nine month period at an NFB Center.
>> If I had a really good job I would learn ADL near home or at my house.
>> If my job wasn't that great and I could get funding for training at a
>> Center
>> I would go for it.
>> I wish the Centers had been around forty years ago.
>> Kelsey is a braille reader.
>> Colleen Roth
>>
>>
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> Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
> Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
> (513) 607-6053
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