[rehab] New THOUGHT PROVOKER #150- Virtual Blindness, Training The Trainers

[Teal Bloodworth]

i think with them having this experience it helps them to practice empathy. 
When i went to New York to get my first guide dog there was a full class 
with one girl doing her training with a blindfold. I asked her at the end of 
her darkness how she felt and she said she understood some of the problems 
that may arise. Also most sighted folks that are training to help us but 
wont necessarily give it to us for nothingif they are good trainers.

        -Teal
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ermelinda Miller" <Ermelinda.Miller at comcast.net>
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Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [rehab] New THOUGHT PROVOKER #150- Virtual Blindness,Training 
The Trainers


>I was hard on my trainers!  I was 17 when I first had Some Braille
> instruction.  After I had sent my sighted first counselor back to the
> office, because he was sighted, a blind counselor came. He explain how the
> Braille cell worked and left me a book. He told me not to learn be on the
> letter J until he came back in two weeks.    When he came back, I new the
> alphabet, I new the numvers and I could read the book he left me. Do you
> think he learned something?  He told me not to worry about learning 
> Braille,
> for since I was a gril, I would only needed to write phone numbers and
> recipes!
>
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