[stylist] Schools run by blind people

[April Enderton]

Angela:

The director of the Iowa Department for the Blind is blind, but the Iowa
Braille School is not run by blind people.  The Iowa Department for the
Blind is our adult orientation Center where Dr. Jernigan resided for 20
years.

April


 

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Subject: [stylist] Schools run by blind people

Also, though they're not necessarily NFB centers, we have the Society for
the Blind in Sacramento and the Wisconsin school for the blind. Isn't the
school in Iowa also still run by blind people?   

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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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