[Trainer-Talk] Helping iDEVICE-using students get organized

[Deborah Armstrong]

> some people in general are more cluttered, and some are not. This applies to anyone, blind or not.

That really resonated with me. My office is very orderly. My kitchen is spotless. But I have a room in my house that has papers, Braille magazines, exercise equipment, camping equipment, including a half-inflated air mattress piled around haph-hazardly. It's where I curl up and read, run on my treadmill and dump junk I don't have a place for. Right now I'm trying to figure out if the air mattress pump will stay charged for a month, hence the matress in the middle of the pile!

 The mess isn't a problem for me because it's my let-down-my-hair room, and I keep it reasonably clean, just not organized. My kitchen is super clean because I want to serve only healthy meals. My office is neat because I don't want to search for things and make the work take longer.

So I have to remember that I'm helping my students get organized, not judging when they don't want to be.

--Debee