<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 28px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>NATURE OF INDEPENDENCE</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><i>Independent Travel and the Blind Child</i></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>2012 PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>April 12 and 13, 2012</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Washington State School for the Blind</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i> </i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i></i></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>Our independence comes from within. A slave can have keen eyesight, excellent mobility, and superb reading skills—and still be a slave. We are achieving freedom and independence in the only way that really counts—in rising self-respect, growing self-confidence, and the will and the ability to make choices. Above all, independence means choices, and the power to make those choices stick. </i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i>Kenneth Jernigan</i></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b> </b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Sponsored by the National Federation of the Bllnd of Washington, the National Federation of the Blind of Oregon, the Washington State School for the Blind and by the Imagination Fund of the Jernigan Institute on Blindness Research and Training</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div>
<ul style="list-style-type: disc">
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Garamond"><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Garamond"><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>PARENTS AS THE FIRST MOVEMENT INSTRUCTOR FOR THEIR CHILDREN</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Garamond"><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>BEST PRACTICES IN THE INSTRUCTION OF ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY FOR BLIND CHILDREN</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Garamond"><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>INCLUDING THE TEACHER OF THE BLIND IN THE PRACTICE OF ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY SKILLS</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Garamond"><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>CONCURRENT SEMINAR FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH</b></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Garamond"><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>MINI SEMINAR ON STRUCTURED DISCOVERY CANE TRAVEL INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES</b></span></li>
</ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Garamond; min-height: 16px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b></b></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Garamond; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Hear from practitioners in the field of orientation and mobility, parents of blind children and successful blind adults.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Garamond; min-height: 16px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Garamond; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Registration Information will be forthcoming soon. Keep the dates.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Garamond; min-height: 16px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Garamond; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">For further information contact Denise Mackenstadt at (206)419-9555 or <a href="mailto:cane.travel@gmail.com"><span style="font: 14.0px Garamond; text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1900ae">cane.travel@gmail.com</span></a> or Carla McQuillan at (541)726-6924 or <a href="mailto:admin@mainstreetmontessory.org"><span style="font: 14.0px Garamond; text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1900ae">admin@mainstreetmontessory.org</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Garamond; min-height: 16px; "><br><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></div><div>
<div>Denise Mackenstadt, NOMC</div><div>Mackenstadt Rehab Services</div><div>(206)419-9555</div><div><a href="mailto:cane.travel@gmail.com">cane.travel@gmail.com</a></div><div> </div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
</div>
<br></body></html>