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Purpose Of Education own children, but they try to teach everyone else's Remember the purpose of educationis to train up Some background scripture refers to the blind leading the http://www.christianparents.com/edpurpos.htm
Extractions: THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION Encyclopedia Britannica of 1952 says the purpose of education is to raise up children to follow in their parents traditions with good success. People in all societies want their children to have the same values as their parents. Consider the man who saw his child grow up to have totally different values than his own. Whatever the ways of living are, each society wants its chldren to fit into the society of the parents. The children are to carry on the values and ideas of their parents. That has been the traditional understanding of a good education. The American Indians wanted their children to learn to hunt and ride a horse and worship the great spirit. They failed in their raising of children according to their culture and their culture is evaporated away. The Moslems want their children to believe like they do, so they teach them their way. The aetheists want their children to believe like they do, so they teach them their way; not only their own children, but they try to teach everyone else's children too! HUMANISM is just another word for atheism. It began in the garden of Eden when the serpent deceived Eve into ignoring God and believing that her own knowledge of good and evil would make her like her own god.
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Extractions: Freedom House is a shelter in Detroit that houses political refugees seeking asylum from all over the world. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about immigration laws in the U.S. and Canada, the refugees' countries and cultures, and the various reasons why they seek asylum. Participants will also do one-on-one English tutoring with guests, help with maintenance work in the food pantry and clothing bank, and spend time interacting with guests and staff. A second language is a plus, but definitely not necessary for a rewarding trip! Cheyenne River Reservation - Cultural Diversity Participants will work with a variety of Cheyenne River's social service agencies by tutoring and mentoring children, preparing and serving meals, doing light restoration and repairs, and working with the elderly nutrition center. Immersed in this Native American culture, participants will learn about important issues currently affecting the Native American community while being exposed to the traditions and beliefs of the people of this South Dakota Reservation. La Puente Home - Rural Homelessness La Puente Home is a temporary shelter in Alamosa, Colorado that provides food and advocacy programs for people in the San Luis Valley, one of the poorest regions in Colorado. Emphasis will be placed on homeless issues and cultural diversity. Participants will prepare meals at the shelter and do construction.
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Useful Links Robotron Spectronics teach Pty Ltd. American Printing House for the blind Cyber BlinkPhil Scovell's blind Phone Book Journal of Visual Special education topics. http://www.stedmunds.nsw.edu.au/Useful_Links/useful_links.html
An Introduction To Music Educators need no prior experience with braille to teach and learn who are not Brailleliterate, can now guide blind students in their musical education. http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/curriclm.htm
Extractions: A Course in Braille Music Reading "Teaching braille music is doable and rewarding for those who need it! Give me five minutes and Ill show you." Dear students, teachers and lovers of music, When I posed this challenge to Cecelia at a recent braille literacy conference, she was disbelieving. Within minutes, her hands were rapidly skimming the music on the braille page as she was singing "Do, re, mi 1,2,3" and the melody that followed. On the verge of tears, she could not contain her smile. "Ive believed I could learn this my whole life, but Ive met with only discouragement, especially from my choir director. Now I can finally learn the music Ive been missing, with this course." Cecelias frustration may sound familiar to you as a music lover or a braille teacher. Neither frustration nor fear need to keep you from sharing the world of music with someone who longs for music anymore. If you can find middle C on the piano, you can teach a blind person to read braille music using this new course. Are you a parent, educator or counselor for a blind individual who wants more opportunities for:
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Extractions: REVISED 4/24/2002 This list is not intended to be a complete listing of all music resources that are available, nor is it intended to be an endorsement of any organization or publication. For further information, please see our other resource lists. BLINDFAM is a forum for discussions of all aspects of family life as they are affected by the blindness of one or more family members, and welcomes discussion of any topic directly related to how blindness has, is, or will be affecting your family life, including how to teach your blind child to play a musical instrument. All family members are invited to join including spouses, parents, and children of a blind individual as well as any blind person. To subscribe to BLINDFAM, type the command:
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Extractions: This fact sheet describes two public domain computer databases which provide a comprehensive listing of assistive and adaptive products for people with disabilities. Both programs are extremely useful for locating information about assistive technology devices. Assistive Technology: Becoming an Informed Consumer - NICHCY This article provides tips on how to become an informed consumer of such technology, offers a parent's perspective on assistive technology, examines federal legislation, discusses effective use of technology with young children and how to integrate technology into a student's IEP, and suggests a process for funding technology. The article concludes with a list of readings and organizations that offer additional information on assistive technology. Assistive Technology Guide for Students with Learning Disabilities This guide was prepared by the Frostig Center in Pasadena, California, which is devoted to children with learning disabilities. Marshall Raskind, Ph.D., Director of Research of the Center, was the project director and primary author. Dr. Raskind is an authority on technology and learning disabilities. Assistive Technology for Individuals with Learning Disabilities
Extractions: Embargo: 00.01am Wednesday 1 November 2000 MANY BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED YOUNG PEOPLE MISS OUT AT SCHOOL AND COLLEGE The UKs 22,000 blind and partially sighted children and young people are missing out at school and college as a result of insufficient resources, training and support, according to a new report published by the Royal National Institute for the Blind, (RNIB) today, Wednesday 1 November. Over a thousand blind and partially sighted children and young people took part in the comprehensive survey that informed RNIBs `Shaping The Future report, which will be launched at a conference for education professionals, parents and blind and partially sighted young people. While `Shaping The Future found that most are happy at school or college, the research, which was conducted among over a thousand blind and partially sighted children and young people aged 5-25 years, those with additional complex needs and their parents, uncovers a series of failings. Despite the governments commitment to inclusive education for children with disabilities, `Shaping The Future reveals that many blind and partially sighted children are denied equal access to the national curriculum. -more- Many Blind And Partially Sighted Young People Miss Out At School And College Those attending mainstream schools are often given educational materials in a format they cannot read rather than the large print, audio tape or braille they are entitled to.
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Extractions: To promote the independence of blind and visually impaired persons by providing specialized materials, products, and services needed for education and life. The American Printing House for the Blind (APH) was founded in Louisville, Kentucky in 1858, making it the oldest institution of its kind in the United States. APH is also the world's largest company devoted solely to creating products and services for people who are visually impaired. APH manufactures braille, large type, recorded, computer disk, and tactile graphic publications, as well as a wide assortment of educational and daily living products. APH also offers a variety of services to assist consumers and professionals in the field of vision, such as Louis , a database listing materials available in accessible media from organizations across North America. Under the federal Act to Promote the Education of the Blind , APH is the official supplier of educational materials for visually impaired students below the college level in the U.S and its territories. The Act was mandated in 1879, when Congress established an annual appropriation which is divided among the states and territories. The funds appropriated under the Act are used by each state to purchase educational materials from APH for their blind students of less than college level.
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Extractions: Test your Site for Accessibility with Cynthia Says Home About Us Donations ... Privacy Policy ACB IDEA TASK FORCE White Paper The American Council of the Blind ( http://www.acb.org ) is a national consumer organization of blind persons with a long history of commitment to improving opportunities for blind individuals to learn, work, participate in community activities, raise families, and contribute to a better society for all Americans. As an organization of concerned and responsible adults, the ACB seeks to make it known that the future of blind and visually impaired children is at risk of being wasted as the result of a faulty educational system. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) sets out in Federal law how children with disabilities will be educated in our schools. While it has certainly made a positive difference for many disability groups, its impact on the lives of children with visual impairments has been far less easy to assess. Seventy-five percent of all blind children already attended public school before IDEA was implemented. Over the years, IDEA has actually had the effect of limiting educational and social development of blind and visually impaired children. We believe that this is because of the nature of the law which focuses attention on process rather than on performance and favors adherence to philosophical principles such as the least restrictive environment and full inclusion over the need to plan the education of each child based on that child's needs.
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Extractions: EENET Newsletters Newsletter 5 Contents The Nepal Association for the Welfare of the Blind (NAWB) runs a CBR project in Dharan, eastern Nepal, in partnership with Christoffel Blinden Mission (CBM). NAWB/Dharan is proud of having enrolled 40 blind children in local schools in the districts of Sunsary, Morang and Jhapa. Janak Thapa tells the story of one of those children: Jetha Murmu. Jetha was 11 years old when Mr Laxmi Bhandari, of NAWB/Dharan, found him in the course of a house-to-house survey. When Mr Bhandari first asked if the family was interested in educating Jetha, he was almost beaten by the angry parents and he had to run away. Their other children did not go to school and they had not even heard of the education of the children before. In fact, the parents wanted to hand Jetha over to Mr Bhandari. After some time he took them to meet a blind lady who was already reading and writing Braille and was an active member of her family. It was only after this experience that the parents allowed him to teach Jetha. Jetha is now in Class 5. Mr Bhandari no longer needs to visit him regularly. He goes to school independently using his white cane. He has many friends and the teachers are proud of having such a talented blind boy in their school. One of the teachers has been trained in Braille so that he can help him in school. He has become the talk of the village:
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Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... E > Education of the Blind A B C D ... Z Although the education of the blind as a class dates back no further than the year 1784, historians and statisticians generally admit that the affliction which it tends to relieve was no less prevalent before than it has been since that date. Indeed, so far from having increased, blindness appears to have in a marked degree decreased during the last hundred years. GENERAL STATISTICS OF BLINDNESS An exact statement of the number of blind persons in all parts of the inhabited earth is of course impossible. The estimates which publicists have formed upon the basis of census returns, as also those derived from the observation of travellers, give the ratio of blind persons to the whole population in Asia 1 to 500; in Africa 1 to 300; in Europe 1 to 1094 (the ratios for seventeen countries of the last-named division being, approximately: England, 1 to 1235; Scotland, 1 to 1118; Ireland, 1 to 870; France, 1 to 1194; Germany, 1 to 1136; European Russia, 1 to 534; Austria, 1 to 1234; Hungary, 1 to 952; Italy, 1 to 1074; Spain, 1 to 835; Denmark, 1 to 1248; Sweden, 1 to 1262; Norway, 1 to 795; Finland, 1 to 689; Belgium, 1 to 1229; Switzerland, 1 to 1325; Bulgaria, 1 to 321). For the other great geographical divisions no data are available for even a fairly satisfactory approximation. (See below Blindness in the United States .) Consistently with the foregoing ratios, and with such conjectures as may be hazarded for America, Australasia, etc., it may be estimated that the number of blind persons now living in all parts of the world is not far short of 2,500,000. A careful study of the figures shows that blindness prevails most in tropical, and least in temperate, regions; more in the Eastern than in the Western Hemisphere. In the temperate climates of the North the blind are comparatively few; nearer the Arctic Circle, the glittering snows, the alternation from the brilliant nights of the Arctic summer to the prolonged darkness of the winter, and other conditions affect the visual organs unfavourably, while in the torrid zones the glare from desert sands and the intense heat of the sun occasion many diseases, resulting in either total or partial loss of sight.
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Extractions: CLOSES: Further Notice LOCATION There is currently one full-time opening in Seattle with the Department of Services for the Blind. This register will be used to fill future part-time and full-time vacancies as they occur in Seattle - Rainier Valley (17.21), Kennewick (03.1) and Tacoma (27.7). DUTIES Provides rehabilitative program services in three program areas to blind and visually impaired individuals who may also have other disabilities. In the Kennewick Vocational Rehabilitation Program, facilitates career exploration activities and provides intensive job search training for participants; in an assigned geographic area, provides individualized assessments, specialized instruction and counseling to participants in their place of residence; and in the Seattle Orientation and Training Center, provides rehabilitative program services including teaching grades 1, 2 and 3 Braille and adjustment counseling to blind and visually impaired participants. WHO MAY APPLY This recruitment is open to anyone who meets the requirements.
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Extractions: Previous page Table of Contents Next page Any fieldwork policy based on individual tutors making arbitrary decisions as to how to accommodate the needs of blind and visually impaired students is no longer acceptable. The needs and rights of such students are now enshrined in a range of legislative and regulatory frameworks, and these need to be understood and taken on board by fieldwork tutors. The 1990s saw considerable advances in legal support for visually impaired people in terms of their educational expectations. As a result of recent legislation, visually impaired students are now entitled to the same learning experiences as sighted students. The main legislation is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 (see Iowa 2000b). In Australia, the relevant legislation is the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) of 1992 (the full text is available at http://www.dircsa.org.au/pub/docs/ddact.txt
Blind Education Pioneers In India Online paper about 19th century pioneers of blind education in China and India. blind Sighted Pioneer Teachers in 19th century China India background to work with blind people. Some formal contact 172 then the education of some blind children in ordinary http://www.socsci.kun.nl/ped/whp/histeduc/mmiles/bpt03.html
Extractions: European charitable work in India began in the 16th century with some Portuguese hospitals, and continued with a modest poor fund at Madras, first for European distress then for the native poor. Compared with China, the long years of slowly growing British influence in India gave a different background to work with blind people. Some formal contact was developed a few decades sooner; yet it followed a similar pattern of early charitable donations and ophthalmic surgery, then the education of some blind children in ordinary schools, facilitated by the advent of reading materials using the embossed scripts of Lucas and Moon; with later on some residential asylum or orphanage schools and finally the use of Braille. In 1800, when outdoor relief in England was still poorly organised, the Indian Presidency Governments hardly expected to solve "the problem created by the vast number of beggars in India... for many of whom poverty was the result of some physical disability". However, missionaries personally exposed to disabled beggars were not always willing to see Government escape all responsibility. For some of them, "close acquaintance with Indian conditions turned missionaries from pious evangelists to fearless 'radicals' and people-protectors."
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