[rehab] Research and Academic Professionals Meeting in Orlando

[Angel238]

I will tell you this:  Some 50 years ago, I was given a full college 
scholarship from my state.  My vocational rehabilitation counselor flat out 
told me, I could either choose the field he recommended for me, or, I could 
well pay for my education myself.  It is sad, because the field I wanted to 
choose is a common one chosen by blind people now days.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Davis via rehab" <rehab at nfbnet.org>
To: "Rehabilitation Counselor Mailing List" <rehab at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Dick Davis" <ddavis at blindinc.org>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [rehab] Research and Academic Professionals Meeting in Orlando


> Hi,
>
> I wonder if it would be useful to do a study of blind college students to
> see if they are disproportionately steered into liberal arts programs by
> college admissions offices because of their blindness.  And
> disproportionately steered away from more hands-on career programs or
> programs in which liability could be considered an issue.
>
> Also the proportion of blind baccalaureate and master's degree program
> graduates with no prior work experience, and the kind of jobs they got
> after graduation.
>
> And if there is any correlation between degree of remaining vision or lack
> thereof and college or career choices by blind students.
>
> Dick Davis, Chair
> NFB employment Committee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rehab [mailto:rehab-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Edward Bell via
> rehab
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 11:21 AM
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> Cc: Edward Bell
> Subject: [rehab] Research and Academic Professionals Meeting in Orlando
>
> Research and Academic Professionals Meeting
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> The National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute's Research
> Advisory Council invites interested individuals to discuss topics for
> research, publication in the Journal of Blindness Innovation and Research
> (JBIR), and to share ideas for increasing the research and academic
> presence of the NFB.
> Learn about the efforts of the Jernigan Institute to help guide and shape
> research that impacts blind persons, and find ways you can participate.
> Edward Bell, Arielle Silverman, and Lou Ann Blake, coordinators.
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> Lou Ann Blake, J.D.
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> Deputy Executive Director, Jernigan Institute
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> 200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
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> The National Federation of the Blind is a community of members and friends
> who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation's blind. Every day we
> work together to help blind people live the lives they want.
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> Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC
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> Director, Professional Development and Research
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> Institute on Blindness
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> "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."
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> -- Stephen Jay Gould
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