[blindkid] Questions for parents of blind high schoolers

Susan Harper sueharper at firstchurchgriswold.org
Mon Apr 19 19:14:11 UTC 2010 

I am the parent of a soon to be 4 year old and I am learning from all of you
who have gone before.  Thanks for sharing.
Blessings,
Sue H.

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Brad/Jill Weatherd
<snowedin at union-tel.com>wrote:

> Sally,
> Hannah is a junior in high school this year.  For the most part, her TVI
> makes sure that all of Hannah's handouts, worksheets, etc. are in Braille
> and that she has all of her textbooks in Braille.  She doesn't have any
> planned time scheduled to work directly with her TVI this year, though, she
> did have a "free" period last year in the TVI room where she could get
> instruction if needed.  I will say that since Hannah's Braille Note crashed
> last week I can see that we should have gotten Hannah more practice with
> scanning print documents and embossing things by herself.  Sometimes it
> takes a "crisis" like that to see where the holes are.  Hannah's TVI does
> come to the school every morning for about 3 hours to go to each teacher
> and
> collect anything that needs to be Brailled or adapted for that school day,
> as well as to transcribe her Brailled math homework into print for the math
> teacher.  If I had what I wanted, Hannah would have an hour/week with the
> TVI to work on technology skills.  That's my next phone call :)  Sadly, we
> have not found good O and M training here in Wyoming, so we rely on those 8
> weeks at the Colorado Center for the Blind to work on her travel skills.
> Hope this info is helpful!  Jill
>
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>   3. FW: [blind-family] Access to website of orphans,  blind that
>      need adoptive families- adoption grants (Eric Calhoun)
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> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:49:45 -0500
> From: "Sally Thomas" <seacknit at gmail.com>
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> Some questions for those of you who have kids in high school or recently
> graduated:  I'm wonder if your kids continue to get direct services from
> the
>
> teacher of blind students while in high school.  Did/do the kids see the
> teacher during the school day or before or after the regular school day?
> How many hours per week of services does your child receive?  Do you wish
> it
>
> was more or less?  Do you have consult service hours (time for the teacher
> of blind students to talk with the classroom teachers) detailed in the IEP
> document?
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> It's IEP time again here so I'm trying to get some perspective on the
> upcoming high school years.
>
> Sally Thomas
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> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:15:27 -0400
> From: Jessica <jess28 at samobile.net>
> To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [blindkid] some questions for parents of blind high
>        schoolers
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> Sally,
> The whole time I was in high school I worked with Teachers for the
> Visually Impaired. It was ever really totally clear to me as why I was
> still working with them because it's not like we did a whole lot of
> stuff. In fact, if you asked most the students faculty and staff
> especially at the high school I graduated from I don't even really
> think that they knew I was visually impaired. In fact, I had that very
> thing happen with  my younger
> sister biology teacher. This teacher didn't realize until my younger
> sister and her best friend at the time did a report on Albinism. This
> teacher didn't realize that I had Albinism. I guess that was my first
> time feeling like I've educated someone able my condition, even though
> I really didn't say anything.
> Jessica
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> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:39:07 -0500
> From: "Eric Calhoun" <eric at pmpmail.com>
> To: blindkid at nfbnet.org, blparent at nfbnet.org, fopbc at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blindkid] FW: [blind-family] Access to website of orphans,
>        blind that need adoptive families- adoption grants
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> Original Message:
> From: "adoptanorphan" <lynnem at wacap.org>
> To: blind-family at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [blind-family] Access to website of orphans, blind that need
> adoptive families- adoption grants
> Date:
> Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:39:06 -0000
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> Please visit WACAP's  updated Web site with new capabilities at
> www.wacap.org and click on the "waiting children" tab. You can now choose
> to view only orphans with the specific special needs you are interested in
> including blind. You can also easily see only children who fit the gender,
> age or continent you are looking for and quickly identify those who have
> Promise Child grants.
>
> If you need a password to visit our secure waiting child Web site go to
> http://www.wacap.org/Forms/tabid/140/Default.aspx?cid=RequestAccess.
>
> Any questions please contact FamilyFinders at wacap.org
> WACAP is a non-profit adoption and humanitarian aid agency.
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