Stacking the Deck, April 1997
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Stacking the Deck Against
Blind Travel Instructors
by Marc Maurer
Can blind people teach cane travel? The
answer to this question is so thoroughly documented that there can be no doubt.
Blind people can and do teach travel to other blind people every day. Blindness
does not necessarily guarantee that the teacher will be a good one. However,
Cane Travel
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Teaching Cane Travel
Blind?
by Arlene Hill
From the Editor: Some months
ago Arlene Hill wrote the following article about teaching cane travel as a
blind instructor. Here it is:
When I was invited to write this article, I wondered what I
could possibly say. I was asked to write about any special problems blind people
have teaching orientation and mobility. In my view this notion is one of the
Straight Talk
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A Letter from the Trenches: Straight Talk
About Cane Travel
by Georginia Kleege
From the Editor: Listening to erudite discussions among orientation
and mobility instructors about cross-body technique, shorelines, hand position,
and arc-width, its easy to forget that the fundamental principle of successful
cane travel is to use a long white cane efficiently to find out as much as possible
Helping The SIghted To See
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Helping the Sighted to See
From the Editor: Week in and week out one of the most
important jobs Federationists are called upon to undertake
is educating the public. Not only do uninformed people need
help recognizing the very real and substantial problems
facing blind people, but often they require instruction to
comprehend what they are actually looking at. When the
Washington Seminar '97
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The 1997 Washington Seminar
by Barbara Pierce
By now everyone in the National Federation of the Blind knows
that the first week of February means one thing in our organizational calendar:
the Washington Seminar. Activities actually began Friday evening, January 31,
with the student division party at the Capitol Holiday Inn.
But the daylong Mid-Winter Conference of the National Association
Legislative Agenda, 1997
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Legislative Agenda,
1997
FROM: Members of the National Federation
of the Blind
TO: Members of the 105th Congress
RE: Legislative Priorities of Blind Americans
Public policies and laws affecting blind people have a profound impact on our
entire society. Most people know someone who is blind. It may be a friend, a
family member, or a co-worker on the job. The blind population in the U. S.
Winning the Chance to Pay Taxes
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Fact
Sheet
Winning the Chance to Earn and Pay Taxes: How the Blind Person's Earnings Limit
in the Social Security Act Must be Changed
BACKGROUND: The Social Security earnings limit, also known
as the "retirement test," was recently changed by Congress. The new
law, which first took effect in 1996, provides a 1997 earnings exemption threshold
Fact Sheet: Blindness, Rehabilitation, and the Need for
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Fact Sheet: Blindness,
Rehabilitation, and the Need for
Specialized Programs
BACKGROUND: Under title I of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
federal grants assist every state to provide comprehensive vocational rehabilitation
services to eligible persons with disabilities, including persons who are blind.
Braille Literacy
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Fact Sheet: Braille
Literacy and the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act
BACKGROUND: The National Literacy Act of 1991 defines "literacy"
as "an individual's ability to read, write, and speak in English, and compute
and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job
Telling Our Story
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Telling Our Story
by Michael Baillif
From the Editor: Michael Baillif
is President of the Capital City Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind
of the District of Columbia. He is also a past president of the National Association
of Blind Students (NABS). He was invited to address NABS's Mid-Winter Conference
on Saturday, February 1, in Washington, D.C. President Maurer made the following