[Rehab] Dare to be Remarkable 2020: Call for Presenters

[Edward Bell]

Save the Date

 

National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute

 

DARE TO BE REMARKABLE:

Pathways toward Structured Discovery

 

A three-day national training conference for education and rehabilitation
professionals who work with blind transition-age students and adults

 

When:  Tuesday, December 15 - Thursday, December 17

Time:     11:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time

Where: Live via Zoom

 

* Please see the attached call for presenters

 

This conference is for all rehabilitation and education professionals who
work with the population of transition-age youth and adults who are blind or
low vision. Specific tracks will also be offered for adult VR consumers who
are currently participating in rehabilitation training programs. 

 

This conference will include:

*	Keynote presentations each day by leaders in the rehabilitation and
education fields. 
*	Workgroups on Structured Discovery Training methods and principles. 
*	Professional think tank work group sessions for VR instructors and
administrators
*	Consumer panels on what works
*	Seminar style discussion groups for consumers who are receiving
residential rehabilitation services. 

 

Registration will be $50 for professionals and free for VR consumers.
Registration will be coming soon. 

 

For more information, contact the conference organizers:

Edward Bell, Ph.D. 

Louisiana Tech University

318-257-4554, or ebell at latech.edu <mailto:ebell at latech.edu> 

Anil Lewis, M.Pa.

National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute

410-659-9314  alewis at nfb.org <mailto:alewis at nfb.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

*************

"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

 

 

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