Barbara Cheadle, Editor

This issue is dedicated to Erik Weihenmayer, the only blind person to climb the tallest mountain peaks on all seven continents. Erik is pictured below at the National Center for the Blind with his guide dog and blind children from the Maryland KIDS Camp program. For more information about Erik and his adventures, see Erik’s book Touch the Top of the World, and go to the NFB Web page <www.nfb.org/erik.htm>.

Erik Weihenmayer with his guide dog and blind children from the Maryland KIDS Camp program.

“Erik exemplifies the spirit and mission of the National Federation
of the Blind. We believe all blind people can climb their own
individual mountains, provided that they receive proper training
and opportunities, and, most importantly, have faith in themselves.”
Dr. Marc Maurer, President, National Federation of the Blind

For more information about blindness and children contact the
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21230
(410) 659-9314 ext. 360
www.nfb.org/nopbc.htm * [email protected] * [email protected]

ISSN 0883-3419

Contents

Vol. 21, No. 2 Summer/Fall 2002

Frontispiece

Mountains to Climb: Blind Dillon Teen Conquers Baldy Mountain
by Maryanne Davis Silve and Marty Greiser

Kyra’s First Grade Year
by Barbara Matthews

Braille Is Beautiful

Textbooks on Time: Update on the Instructional
Materials Accessibility Act (IMAA)
by James McCarthy and Barbara Cheadle

Why We Need the Instructional Materials Accessibility Act
(IMAA)

Lack of Brailled Textbooks Leaves Blind Students in Bind
by Sandy Coleman

National Resource Center for Blind Musicians

Emilie’s School Spirit Show
by Anna Nguyen