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<DIV>I am from Seedlings Braille Books for Children in Livonia, Michigan.</DIV>
<DIV>We produce low-cost, high-quality braille books for children ages 0-14.</DIV>
<DIV>We would be happy to ship you catalogs which highlight our 1,100 braille titles offered. Please let me know if this is something you'd find beneficial for the attendees of your April conference. Please see our website if you want more information on Seedlings. (link below in blue.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Thank you.</DIV>
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<DIV>Vicky Opie<BR> </DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Denise Mackenstadt <cane.travel@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> TOVI: Administrative Question <tovi@wsdsonline.org>; PIBE Division <pibe-division@nfbnet.org>; Blindhomeschooler@yahoogroups.com; vision-request@lists.pdx.edu<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, January 26, 2012 11:11:54 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Pibe-division] Parent Educator Conference<BR></FONT><BR>OOPS! Thank you Janet Kurz. I had the wrong dates on the announcement. Please forgive me. Here is a corrected version.
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 28px Helvetica"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>NATURE OF INDEPENDENCE</B></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B><I>Independent Travel and the Blind Child</I></B></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 18px Helvetica"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>2012 PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE</B></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>April 13 and 14, 2012</B></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 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: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><I>Kenneth Jernigan</I></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 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>
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<LI style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Garamond"><SPAN style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; LETTER-SPACING: 0px"></SPAN><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN</B></SPAN></LI>
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<LI style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Garamond"><SPAN style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; LETTER-SPACING: 0px"></SPAN><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>BEST PRACTICES IN THE INSTRUCTION OF ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY FOR BLIND CHILDREN</B></SPAN></LI>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Garamond"><SPAN style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; LETTER-SPACING: 0px"></SPAN><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>INCLUDING THE TEACHER OF THE BLIND IN THE PRACTICE OF ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY SKILLS</B></SPAN></LI>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Garamond"><SPAN style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; LETTER-SPACING: 0px"></SPAN><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>CONCURRENT SEMINAR FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH</B></SPAN></LI>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Garamond"><SPAN style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; LETTER-SPACING: 0px"></SPAN><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><B>MINI SEMINAR ON STRUCTURED DISCOVERY CANE TRAVEL INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES</B></SPAN></LI></UL>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Garamond"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">Hear from practitioners in the field of orientation and mobility, parents of blind children and successful blind adults.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Garamond"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">Registration Information will be forthcoming soon. Keep the dates.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px Garamond"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">For further information contact Denise Mackenstadt at (206)419-9555 or <A href="mailto:cane.travel@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:cane.travel@gmail.com"><SPAN style="FONT: 14px Garamond; LETTER-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">cane.travel@gmail.com</SPAN></A> or Carla McQuillan at (541)726-6924 or <A href="mailto:admin@mainstreetmontessory.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:admin@mainstreetmontessory.org"><SPAN style="FONT: 14px Garamond; LETTER-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">admin@mainstreetmontessory.org</SPAN></A></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>Denise Mackenstadt, NOMC</DIV>
<DIV>Mackenstadt Rehab Services</DIV>
<DIV>(206)419-9555</DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:cane.travel@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:cane.travel@gmail.com">cane.travel@gmail.com</A></DIV>
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