[stylist] Schools run by blind people

[Barbara Hammel]

Most definitely not the school for the blind but the department for the 
blind is.
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:50 PM
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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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