[Txabs] Fwd: [Nfbnet-students-list] NABS Needs You! Tell Your Story!

[jonathan franks]

howdy Tabsters,
I would like to encourage you all to assist in this taskforce effort
in order for us to help pass the TEACH ACT. We as blind students
should be able to function proficiently in the classroom and in our
schooling just as our sighted ppeers do!

Please read the following message from Justin Salisbury and write your letters!

Warm Regards,

Jonathan Franks
Treasurer
Texas Association of Blind Students
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Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 06:17:40 +0000
Subject: [Nfbnet-students-list] NABS Needs You! Tell Your Story!
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Calling All Blind Students!

NABS WANTS YOU to help PASS THE TEACH ACT!

You don't need to be a governmental expert to help; right now, we are
asking students with disabilities to write up their personal stories.

In order to participate actively in the effort of the National
Federation of the Blind to help more blind students get equal access
in higher education, NABS President Sean Whalen has created a task
force. I am thrilled to be a part of it!

At this phase, we are collecting stories from blind students that
Federationists can give to the Senators and Congressmen who ask us if
it matters to their constituents. It really makes a difference when we
hand them a packet of testimonies. The task force has divided up the
country and is reaching out to students in every affiliate.

Please tell us how inaccessible technology in higher education has
held you back. If you're the first blind student I've met who has
always had equal access, tell us that and how important it has been
for your success. Every story counts. Feel free to contact me with any
questions. I have attached a testimony that I wrote which has been
effective. Feel free to mimic it if you'd like, but please just tell
your story.

We still want students to participate in every other method of passing
the TEACH Act, but this is one way that we can uniquely assist
President Riccobono and our fellow Federationists everywhere. Personal
testimonies can be sent to Kathryn Webster at
kathrynwebster.nfb at gmail.com<mailto:kathrynwebster.nfb at gmail.com>.

Let's pass the TEACH Act!

Yours in Federationism,


Justin Salisbury - Running Thunder Phoenix
Graduate Student
Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness
Louisiana Tech University
Email: jms132 at latech.edu<mailto:jms132 at latech.edu>
Twitter: @SalisburyJustin

But, of course, we will not fail. We will continue to climb. Our
heritage demands it; our faith confirms it; our humanity requires it.
Whatever the sacrifice, we will make it. Whatever the price, we will
pay it. Seen from this perspective, the hostility and backlash (the
challenges and confrontations) are hardly worth noticing. They are
only an irritant. My brothers and my sisters, the future is ours.
Come! Join me on the stairs, and we will finish the journey.
-          Dr. Kenneth Jernigan




-- 
"People look for miracles, people look for wonders, people expect
surprises of all kinds,". "Yet the greatest wonder, the greatest
miracle, the greatest surprise is to be found in one's heart." –
Muhammad Ali
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