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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Topical Discussion via Zoom<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Back by popular demand: Topical Zoom discussion groups: Week 2<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please see below for this week’s schedule<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you have registered for any of these meetings you should have the zoom information in your inbox by 8:00 CDT on the day of your event. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Center Directors/Administrators: Monday, April 20 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. Central time.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Employment specialists: Monday, April 20 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. Central time.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Cane Travel Instructors: Tuesday, April 21 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Youth Services Specialists: Tuesday, April 21 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Braille/Communications Instructors: Wednesday, April 22 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Access Tech/Communications Instructors: Wednesday, April 22 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>(Note, Braille and Technology groups will be split into two separate rooms<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Home Management/ADL/ILS/Shop Instructors: Thursday, April 23 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Teachers of blind/Visually Impaired Students: Thursday, April 23 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b> <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Rehab counselors/teachers/: Friday, April 24 at 4:00—6:00 p.m. CDT<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b> Note: If you no longer want to participate in these meetings, send an email to me and I will remove your name. </b><a href="mailto:ebell@latech.edu"><b>ebell@latech.edu</b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Together, let’s make week two even bigger and stronger<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC, Director, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Louisiana Tech University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>600 Mayfield Ave / 210 Woodard Hall<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PO Box 3158<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ruston LA 71272<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Office: 318.257.4554 Fax: 318.257.2259 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ebell@latech.edu"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ebell@latech.edu</span></a> www.pdrib.com<o:p></o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:dotted windowtext 3.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:dotted windowtext 3.0pt;border-right:none;padding:1.0pt 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'>*************<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> -- Stephen Jay Gould<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>