[stylist] question

[David Andrews]

John:

You are right, that the blind don't run much, teach much etc.  This 
is changing some though -- primarily because of the NFB.  We now have 
three adult rehab training centers, BLIND Inc. here in Minnesota, and 
one in Denver nad another in Louisiana.  They are all run by blind 
persons, as is a training program for rehab and mobility people at 
Louisiana Tech University.  We now also have the Jernigan Institute 
in Baltimore, run by blind persons, doing training research and development.

Dave

At 12:18 AM 3/25/2009, you wrote:
>Jim:
>
>What you wrote made me wonder about something.  In academic circles, for
>rehab of the blind, education of the blind, blind studies, and so on, are
>there many blind researchers and professors?
>
>I am very fearful that the answer may be no.
>
>The only thing I know is that I was truly shocked to learn that the
>Minnesota school for the blind has only one fully blind teacher.  One!
>Compare this to the school for the deaf, where eighty percent of the staff
>is deaf, all the way from administration down to houseparents.
>
>The academic journals on deafness, ASL, Deaf education, and so on, all are
>edited by Deaf scholars and the great majority of contributors, the
>professors and such, are Deaf.
>
>True, mainstreaming is prevalent, but this is most often a problem with
>school districts wanting to keep Deaf students because they're cash cows.
>They promise they'll provide all the resources blah blah.  But it's crap.
>
>Still, Deaf schools are going strong and there are many large Deaf programs
>within public schools, so there's a good social critical mass and also Deaf
>teachers there.  All the accredition programs, the teacher training programs
>for Deaf education, etc. all are run by Deaf people.
>
>I hope that blind people run everything, too.  If that's not the case, that
>needs to change--or am I wrong to think that would be a good thing?
>
>John
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