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Future Reflections
The National
Federation of the Blind Magazine for Parents and Teachers of Blind Children
Volume 17 Number 3
Winter
1998
Barbara Cheadle, Editor

ISSN-0883-3419
Copyright © 1998
National Federation of the Blind
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CONTENTS
Volume 17 Number 3
Winter 1998
Introduction
by Barbara Cheadle
The Differences
Between Us
by Linda Zani Thomas
An Embarrassing
Revelation
by Gary
Wunder
I Found
a Family in the NFB
by Carol
Akers
Mother
Knows Best
by Peggy
Chong
Active
Learning and the Blind, Multiply Disabled Child
by Lilli Nielsen, Ph.D
Early
Learning Step by Step: A Review
by Lis Grundy
Self-Stimulation:
Dr. Hammer Responds
by Dr. Ed
Hammer
A Parent
Discusses Self-Stimulation
by Leslie
Fansler
Letting
Go and Living It Up
by Linda
Zani Thomas
Meet Luke
by Lynn
Taylor
Family
Journal: A Deaf-blind Toddler Comes a Long Way
by Kurt and Stephanie Kavanaugh
Braille
Opens World for Mentally Impaired Child
by Denise Mehlenbacher
Will the
Real Nicole White Please Step Forward
by Holly
White and Loretta White
The Journey:
A parent comes to terms with her
daughter's disability
by Virginia
Richardson
Blind and
Multiply Handicapped
by
Doris M. Willoughby
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