<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>NATURE OF INDEPENDENCE<br><span>Independent Travel and the Blind Child</span><br><span>2012 PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">April </a>14 and 15, 2012</span><br><span>Washington State School for the Blind</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>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. </span><br><span>Kenneth Jernigan</span><br><span></span><br><span>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</span><br><span></span><br><span>THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN</span><br><span>PARENTS AS THE FIRST MOVEMENT INSTRUCTOR FOR THEIR CHILDREN</span><br><span>BEST PRACTICES IN THE INSTRUCTION OF ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY FOR BLIND CHILDREN</span><br><span>INCLUDING THE TEACHER OF THE BLIND IN THE PRACTICE OF ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY SKILLS</span><br><span>CONCURRENT SEMINAR FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH</span><br><span>MINI SEMINAR ON STRUCTURED DISCOVERY CANE TRAVEL INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES</span><br><span></span><br><span>Hear from practitioners in the field of orientation and mobility, parents of blind children and successful blind adults.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Registration Information will be forthcoming soon. Keep the dates.</span><br><span></span><br>For further information contact Denise Mackenstadt at <a href="tel:(206)419-9555" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">(206)419-9555</a> or <a href="mailto:cane.travel@gmail.com" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">cane.travel@gmail.com</a>or Carla McQuillan at <a href="tel:(541)726-6924" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">(541)726-6924</a> or <a href="mailto:admin@mainstreetmontessory.org" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">admin@mainstreetmontessory.org</a><br><br><div>Denise Mackenstadt, NOMC</div><div>Orientation and Mobility Specialist</div>206-419-9555<div><a href="mailto:cane.travel@gmail.com">cane.travel@gmail.com</a></div><div>Sent from my iPad</div></div></body></html>