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<!--StartFragment--><p class="TitleA">NATURE OF INDEPENDENCE</p><p class="BodyA"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Independent Travel and the Blind Child<o:p></o:p></i></b></p><p class="Heading">2012 PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE</p><p class="BodyA"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">April 14, 2012<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="BodyA"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Washington State School
for the Blind<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="FreeFormA"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></i></p>
<div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid black 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p class="FreeFormA" style="mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid black 1.0pt;
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normal">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. <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="FreeFormA" style="mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid black 1.0pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Kenneth Jernigan<o:p></o:p></i></p>
</div><p class="FreeFormA"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="Subheading">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</p><p class="BodyA"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="BodyA" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond">THE
BUILDING BLOCKS OF INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
CHILDREN<span style="position:relative;top:-1.0pt;mso-text-raise:1.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="BodyA" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
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AS THE FIRST MOVEMENT INSTRUCTOR FOR THEIR CHILDREN<span style="position:relative;
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond">BEST
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond">INCLUDING
THE TEACHER OF THE BLIND IN THE PRACTICE OF ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY SKILLS<span style="position:relative;top:-1.0pt;mso-text-raise:1.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="BodyA" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond">CONCURRENT
SEMINAR FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH<span style="position:relative;
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SEMINAR ON STRUCTURED DISCOVERY CANE TRAVEL INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES<span style="position:relative;top:-1.0pt;mso-text-raise:1.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="BodyA"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:
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font-family:Garamond">Hear from teachers of the blind, practitioners in the
field of orientation and mobility, parents of blind children and successful
blind adults.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Garamond"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="BodyA"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Garamond">For further information contact Denise Mackenstadt at
(206 )419-9555 or </span><a href="mailto:cane.travel@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond;
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(541)726-6924 or </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond;
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PRINT ____ BRAILLE ____ DIGITAL ___<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body1"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body1"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"">MAIL TO: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Body1"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"">MAINSTREET
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</span>MasterCard or Visa:</p><p class="Body1">Account Number:<span style="mso-spacerun:
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</span>Expiration Date:</p><p class="Body1"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="Body1"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body1"><span style="mso-hansi-font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"">PROFESSIONAL
HOURS WILL BE AVAILABLE THROUGH SOUTHWEST ESD</span></p><p class="Body1"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="Body1">Housing Available at Vancouver Downtown Comfort Inn and Suites
at 401 E 13<sup>th</sup> Street, Vancouver, WA 98660.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></p><p class="Body1">For Reservations Call (360) 696-0411 and identify yourself with
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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">cane.travel@gmail.com</a></div><div> </div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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