[blindkid] Great News!

[Carol Castellano]

Hey, Leslie, he may not want to come home!!!

At 01:43 PM 4/7/2011, you wrote:
>We just found out Ethan's been accepted into the Littleton, CO NFB 
>three-week Summer Independence program. He was the last of only 
>eight kids to get into this program. Whew!
>
>There are four boys and four girls who will live in two-bed/to-bath 
>apts.; the boys with one counselor and the girls with another. There 
>will be the core classes or braille, and cane travel covered, as 
>well as their trip each morning by bus from the apts. to the Center. 
>The counselors will also take them rock climbing and hiking at some 
>point, and they're hoping to squeeze in a trip to a ball game, and 
>white water rafting, which is not always done by the middle school group.
>
>I'm thrilled he's getting this opportunity, and believe it could not 
>come at a better time. He'll be entering high school in the Fall, 
>and with this experience under his belt, I think he'll have much 
>more belief in himself as he starts to navigate est, the turbulence 
>of that arena!
>
>Thanks as always to those of you we see at NFB who've encouraged us 
>to keep trying to get him into one of the summer programs - I think 
>this is going to be a great fit!
>
>Best,
>Leslie Ligon
>
>
>
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Carol Castellano
Director of Programs
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
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