[Nfbnet-members-list] Fwd: Tell AER not to bring back NAC

[David Andrews]

 From President Mark Riccobono:


>Dear Friends:
>
>We need your help to make sure that the clock is not turned back for 
>blind rehabilitation consumers. The Association for the Education 
>and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER) 
>announced at the end of the summer last year that it was taking over 
>the agency accreditation program formerly administered by the 
>National Accreditation Council for Blind and Low Vision Services 
>(NAC). This would undo the tremendous progress that has been made in 
>allowing the blind to determine our own destinies and control the 
>programs that directly influence us.
>
>The former NAC accreditation program did not consider, or serve the 
>needs of, blind people and was dropped by most agencies. While we 
>support high standards and certain accreditations, as described in 
><https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm18/bm1801/bm180103.htm>this 
>Braille Monitor article by Dr. Edward Bell, the NAC program was 
>based on low expectations of blind people and other flawed principles.
>
>NAC represents the way the world was; the National Federation of the 
>Blind represents the world of today and the future. We demand a say 
>in the programs that serve us; we demand to be the ones who evaluate 
>them. NAC would turn back the clock, but we live in the present and 
>are actively using our time to shape the future.
>
>We are asking each of you reading this message to do two things: 
>first, read 
><https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm18/bm1801/bm180102.htm>this 
>article from the January issue of the Braille Monitor, written by 
>NFB President Mark Riccobono. Next, take one or more of the actions 
>that President Riccobono outlines at the end of the article to let 
>AER know that blind people will not stand for the revival of NAC.
>
>It is time, once and for all, to say #GoodbyeNAC. Help us put the 
>past behind us and continue building a future where the blind have a 
>say in the lives we will live.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Mark A. Riccobono, President
>National Federation of the blind
>
>
>
>
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