[Pibe-division] Totally blind children

adrijana prokopenko adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com
Sat Jan 13 11:36:25 UTC 2018


Thank you. my totally blind students were excluded from a masquerade
gathering by no one else but who they hope would encourage them and no
one would want to change their mind about this.

On 1/13/18, Sandra Gayer via PIBE-Division <pibe-division at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello Adrijana,
> I'm sorry to hear you're feeling discouraged. It's important to
> understand that sighted people mean well when they say these things
> but, more often than not, they are not operating from a position of
> knowledge. A sighted person who has never come across a blind person
> in the world of work wouldn't know what we are capable of. A coleague
> of mine thought it was amazing when I said I could read aloud live
> from an Internet feed using Braille. Things like that don't occur to
> them. If you have found something you really want to do, conduct some
> research into Braille and speech work-arounds, present yourself well
> at interviews, taking care to address any bariers seen and unforseen,
> and you should be fine.
>
> Very best wishes,
> Sandra.
>
> On 1/13/18, adrijana prokopenko via PIBE-Division
> <pibe-division at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> WE often hear the term, things are too visual, too undoable, too
>> difficult,  for this or that person, especially if they are totally
>> blind, we hear it everywhere from different people, so what is helping
>> you get through this or help others do that so they feel included and
>> not excluded?
>>
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