[Rehab] Early Registration Deadline extended: 18th Annual Rehabilitation Conference

[Edward Bell]

Registration is now open!

The early bird rates for registration have been extended to June 21.

National Blindness Professionals Certification Board presents:

Contemporary Issues in Rehabilitation and Education 
For the Blind
18th ANNUAL REHABILITATION 
AND ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY CONFERENCE

Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
3950 South Las Vegas Boulevard
Las Vegas, NV 89119

Sunday, July 7, 2019 
8:30 am - 7:30 pm

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.

 

Presentations and breakouts including:

*         Hear from employed blind adults on how their participation in a
National Federation of the Blind summer youth program contributed to their
independence.

*         Learn tips from itinerate professionals on how to maximize
instructional time.

*         See how fitness and confidence equal success.

*         Learn where to find new material and secrets to running a dynamic
philosophy discussion.

*         Share ideas and network in multiple rehabilitation disciplines,
including Braille, home management, cane travel, and assistive technology.

*         Learn how to make the most of an interpreter. 

 

More agenda items coming soon.

 

Schedule:
7:30 - 8:30 am-Registration
8:30 am-Conference Begins
2:00 - 5:00- Interactive Breakout Sessions
5:00 - 7:00 pm-NBPCB Awards Reception
Registration Fee includes the NBPCB Awards Reception:
Cost: Before June 21 - $85 for professionals; $75 for Students. 
After June 21 - $100 for both students and professionals

 

Register here:

 <https://nbpcb.org/members/er.php?eid=378>
https://nbpcb.org/members/er.php?eid=378

 

 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/0lyzj2a32gs264d/Draft--Rehab%20Agenda%202019.docx
?dl=0> Draft Agenda is available here

 

Visit the National Blindness Professionals Certification Board website to
learn more about a career in changing lives:

 <http://www.nbpcb.org> http://www.nbpcb.org

 

 

 

 

 

Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC, Director, 

Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness

Louisiana Tech University

600 Mayfield Ave / 210 Woodard Hall

PO Box 3158

Ruston LA 71272

Office: 318.257.4554                      Fax: 318.257.2259 

 <mailto:ebell at latech.edu> ebell at latech.edu  www.pdrib.com

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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."

-- Stephen Jay Gould