[nfbwatlk] Use of word "vision" to describeprofessionalsandservices in the blindness field

[Jim Portillo]

That's right.  We have real vision for our future, right Carl?

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describeprofessionalsandservices in the blindness field


> Amen.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carl Jarvis" <carjar at olypen.com>
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> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 10:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Use of word "vision" to describe
> professionalsandservices in the blindness field
>
>
>> This is a great resolution.
>> The replacement of blind with the word vision is like running fingernails
>> up
>> a chalk board.  To me, the central point in this resolution is,  "...and
>> that the blind will choose what we call ourselves, our programs, our
>> education, and our services..."
>> As long as others, in particular professionals, believe that they can 
>> tell
>> us who we are, we will not be equal, first class participants in our
>> world.
>> When Community Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted changed their
>> name to Vision Services, I would call from time to time to request some 
>> of
>> their vision service.  They had no sense of humor, but I felt that maybe 
>> I
>> helped them rethink the name.
>> We live in strange times.  We are turning out graduates from college who
>> have been trained to "think" in sound bites...when they think at all. 
>> But
>> they are never taught to question what is being fed to them.
>>
>> Carl Jarvis, the blind man not the vision man
>>
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