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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Registration is now open!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>National Blindness Professionals Certification Board presents:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Contemporary Issues in Rehabilitation and Education<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>For the Blind<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>TWENTIETH ANNUAL REHABILITATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>AND ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY CONFERENCE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Held Via Zoom Attendance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Monday and Tuesday, July 5 & 6 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>10:00 am - 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Come and join us! Once again, this year’s conference will be action packed with a variety of new speakers, topics, and hands-on events will be held online via the zoom video conferencing platform.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>To maximize the quality of conference participation we are asking that all participants have access to either the desktop Zoom application or the Zoom iPhone app. You do not need an account, but you are encouraged to have at least the free account. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Presentations and breakouts including:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>• Morning General Sessions filled with thought provoking and inspirational speakers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>• Hear from employed blindness professionals on how they implement Structured Discovery in different teaching areas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>• Learn about teaching to consumers with different backgrounds, characteristics, and intersectionality’s.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>• Learn where to find new material and secrets to running a dynamic philosophy discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>• Share ideas and network in multiple rehabilitation disciplines, including Braille, home management, cane travel, and access technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>• Topical workgroup follow up from the 2020 Dare to be Remarkable conference<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>• Bring Structured Discovery alive when Face-to-Face is not an option<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>(Note: all times are Eastern Daylight Time)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>10:00 —Conference Begins each day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>1:00 - 5:00— Interactive Breakout Sessions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>*Including 3:30 - 5:00 pm—Happy Hour Mix and Mingle on July 5<sup>th</sup> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>The registration fee for this online conference is $50 for professionals and free for students /consumers and entitles you to all general and breakout sessions, continuing education points, and access to the recorded conference sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Register Here<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> </span><a href="https://nbpcb.org/members/er.php?eid=434"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>https://nbpcb.org/members/er.php?eid=434</span></a><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Visit the National Blindness Professionals Certification Board website to learn more about a career in changing lives:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.nbpcb.org">http://www.nbpcb.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></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>