Blog posts from our board member, Phil Hatlen, and guest bloggers, addressing issues related to blind and visually-impaired children.
Think about how a blind or visually impaired person accomplishes routine tasks, and believe me, they do, every day of their lives.
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The Expanded Core Curriculum is comprised of areas of instruction needed by blind and visually impaired students that they cannot learn casually and visually from their environment.
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8,000. That's the approximate number of legally blind children in Texas.
All Blind Children of Texas is a resource for the optimal physical, mental, emotional and social development of all blind children of Texas. ABCTX screens, funds and facilitates their participation in programs, activities, events and projects designed by their Teacher of the Visually Impaired (TVI) that provide hands-on learning experiences that help to master the skills needed to work alongside sighted peers.
YOU ARE INVITED BAPS Charities is sponsoring a fundraising walk for All Blind Children of Texas on April 21, 2012. Come join us if you are in the Austin area. (Brushy Creek Lake Park, 3300 Brushy Creek Rd from 9-12 AMam) Learn more about this event or make a donation at https://my.bapscharities.org/CauseInfo.aspx?EID=86
The Crowley Independent School District's 125 member Children's Honor Choir was invited to perform a premier work at Carnegie Hall in New York in February, 2012.
One student with visual impairments would not have been able to attend this trip without support from All Blind Children of Texas.
With funding from ABCTX, the student was able to participate with the CISD Honor Choir in performing on stage at Carnegie Hall in New York City. This once in a lifetime opportunity for a student who is expected to lose more vision as she grows up has helped improve her self esteem and social skills as well as independent travelling in a wide variety of situations.
Read the after report from the teacher
Mary Sue Welch, president of All Blind Children of Texas, is a graduate of The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI). Mary Sue notes that her twelve years at TSVBI were very beneficial to her working career for the federal government for thirty years.
She spent the rest of her working life serving people with all types of disabilities. Learning Braille, and having a true passion for the marvelous tool it is, allowed her to perform many work tasks independently.
