[nabs-l] Training centers not real world

[Darian]

That is an excellent point that Arielle brings up. 
The biggest thing is that one game skills and confidence that allows them to be successful once they leave the center. That might be a month, it might be six months, it might even take a year. If you can get the time and you can make the most out of it, I think that is the most important and most essential point.
  Darian

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> On Nov 11, 2013, at 6:45 PM, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> One little-known fact about NFB centers is that some people attend
> them for less than six months. Though at least six months is usually
> required to get an official graduation ceremony and a bell, a course
> of 3-5 months or even less can still be beneficial, and in the real
> world, it really doesn't matter if you receive a bell or not. I know
> several people who benefited tremendously from attending a center
> summer program or a 3-month stint in the adult program. I even have a
> friend who attended CCB for only a month after his wife passed away
> and he wanted to brush up on his cooking skills even though he was
> employed and had excellent skills in all the other areas. He paid for
> the training himself and I think he thought it was worthwhile even for
> just a month. If you call the center and say you only want to come for
> three months they aren't going to turn you away.
> 
> Arielle
> 
>> On 11/11/13, Bridgit Pollpeter <bpollpeter at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Ummm... This may have nothing to do with blindness and training or lack
>> thereof, but when consistently posting with errors and misspellings, it
>> doesn't assist in the argument against a training center, particularly
>> when written by a blind person.
>> 
>> Bridgit
>> 
>> 
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