Hello Everyone, For all of you that are currently in contact with Cane Walk families, please let me know how things are going. Please, if possible join us for the follow-up meetings on July 13th at 8:00 pm Eastern time, and on Wednesday, July15th at 11:00 am Eastern time. The Zoom information is contained on the e-mail you should have received with the full set of links for the Cane Walk. P,Please let me know if you are running into difficulties, and especially tell all us about the techniques your using, and what sort of successes you are experiencing. Jeff Altman MA NOMCT CVRCB
Hi all, I have a very little one. The parents and sister are blind and they all use nfb canes so those preliminary discussions about need for cane are not the areas we are focusing. Since their daughter is so young I have been sending little cane themed songs and activities to do with her individually and also as a family. We been emailing back and forth frequently. Kristen J. Sims, MEd NOMC NCUEB Instructor, Orientation and Mobility PDRIB Louisiana Tech UniversityKsims at latech.edu 318-257-4554 On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 11:08 AM -0500, "Deb & Jeff Altman" <debandjeff at allophone.com> wrote: Hello Everyone, ? For all of you that are currently in contact with Cane Walk families, please let me know how things are going. Please, if possible join us for the follow-up meetings on July 13th at 8:00 pm Eastern time, and on Wednesday, July15th at 11:00 am Eastern time. The Zoom information is contained on the e-mail you should have received with the full set of links for the Cane Walk. P,Please let me know if you are running into difficulties, and especially tell all us about the techniques your using, and what sort of successes you are experiencing. ? Jeff Altman MA NOMCT CVRCB
I guess I should have responded to the whole group but I just told Jeff that my 14-year-old and I are having a great time. Mom is a big help and a big believer in what we are doing. He has attended a buddy program in Louisiana so we don?t have a whole lot of philosophical work to do but I did encourage them to download walking alone and marching together and copied the DB number so that he could find it on his bard. I told mom she should listen to it with him as the book is a very thick tome and she probably won?t want to sit still and read it in print. This young man is very eager to get involved in the organized blind movement. We need to encourage the Louisiana affiliate to make sure this family doesn?t slip through the cracks and that they get swept up in as many activities as Louisiana offers during the school year. They have been to a state convention and were thinking about driving to Houston before the Covid emergency. I Mom pointed out that one of the good things about a virtual convention is that people who cannot afford to go to a live convention will have more freedom to attend this one. That is so true. They didn?t even try to go to Las Vegas last year because it was too expensive. And I thought about all the money I?m saving and it makes sense. I hope everybody else is having a good time too. Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 11, 2020, at 11:20 AM, Kristen Sims <ksims at latech.edu> wrote:
? Hi all, I have a very little one. The parents and sister are blind and they all use nfb canes so those preliminary discussions about need for cane are not the areas we are focusing. Since their daughter is so young I have been sending little cane themed songs and activities to do with her individually and also as a family. We been emailing back and forth frequently.
Kristen J. Sims, MEd NOMC NCUEB Instructor, Orientation and Mobility PDRIB Louisiana Tech University Ksims at latech.edu 318-257-4554
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 11:08 AM -0500, "Deb & Jeff Altman" <debandjeff at allophone.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
For all of you that are currently in contact with Cane Walk families, please let me know how things are going. Please, if possible join us for the follow-up meetings on July 13th at 8:00 pm Eastern time, and on Wednesday, July15th at 11:00 am Eastern time. The Zoom information is contained on the e-mail you should have received with the full set of links for the Cane Walk. P,Please let me know if you are running into difficulties, and especially tell all us about the techniques your using, and what sort of successes you are experiencing.
Jeff Altman MA NOMCT CVRCB
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Thank you Kristen, This sounds great, please let us know if you need anything. Jeff From: Kristen Sims [mailto:ksims at latech.edu] Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 11:20 AM To: Deb & Jeff Altman; nomc at lists.nbpcb.org Subject: Re: [Nomc] Just checking in Hi all, I have a very little one. The parents and sister are blind and they all use nfb canes so those preliminary discussions about need for cane are not the areas we are focusing. Since their daughter is so young I have been sending little cane themed songs and activities to do with her individually and also as a family. We been emailing back and forth frequently. Kristen J. Sims, MEd NOMC NCUEB Instructor, Orientation and Mobility PDRIB Louisiana Tech University Ksims at latech.edu 318-257-4554 On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 11:08 AM -0500, "Deb & Jeff Altman" <debandjeff at allophone.com> wrote: Hello Everyone, For all of you that are currently in contact with Cane Walk families, please let me know how things are going. Please, if possible join us for the follow-up meetings on July 13th at 8:00 pm Eastern time, and on Wednesday, July15th at 11:00 am Eastern time. The Zoom information is contained on the e-mail you should have received with the full set of links for the Cane Walk. P,Please let me know if you are running into difficulties, and especially tell all us about the techniques your using, and what sort of successes you are experiencing. Jeff Altman MA NOMCT CVRCB
I connected with my Cane Walk Family this afternoon. The lesson began with working on technique inside the home of the young man. We then got outside and had him locate some things and even walked along a quiet street. They had lots of good questions and it was enjoyable. Dezman On Jul 11, 2020, at 12:35 PM, Deb & Jeff Altman <debandjeff at allophone.com> wrote:
? Thank you Kristen,
This sounds great, please let us know if you need anything.
Jeff
From: Kristen Sims [mailto:ksims at latech.edu] Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 11:20 AM To: Deb & Jeff Altman; nomc at lists.nbpcb.org Subject: Re: [Nomc] Just checking in
Hi all, I have a very little one. The parents and sister are blind and they all use nfb canes so those preliminary discussions about need for cane are not the areas we are focusing. Since their daughter is so young I have been sending little cane themed songs and activities to do with her individually and also as a family. We been emailing back and forth frequently.
Kristen J. Sims, MEd NOMC NCUEB Instructor, Orientation and Mobility PDRIB Louisiana Tech University Ksims at latech.edu 318-257-4554
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 11:08 AM -0500, "Deb & Jeff Altman" <debandjeff at allophone.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
For all of you that are currently in contact with Cane Walk families, please let me know how things are going. Please, if possible join us for the follow-up meetings on July 13th at 8:00 pm Eastern time, and on Wednesday, July15th at 11:00 am Eastern time. The Zoom information is contained on the e-mail you should have received with the full set of links for the Cane Walk. P,Please let me know if you are running into difficulties, and especially tell all us about the techniques your using, and what sort of successes you are experiencing.
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