we are getting a bit affield of the topic on this thread.  I am blind
and I do not "come".  Many blind do not "come".  The real need here is
for all types of people to work together on these projects.  I do not
believe that disabled individuals are the only ones quallified to
determine what technology will make the most use of and enhance
productive and independance skills and we've seen a lot of evidence for
this as well.  I praise the high school student for his interest and
effort and it can be part of a solution to a problem.  The principle is
a good one but at my age, it seems to me that this might be a perfect
opportunity for someone to have a job or several some ones to have a
job.  There are many combinations of sollutions to this that would
create jobs.  I think often we under-estemate the power and purpose of
the human being in the solution equasion.  I know of lots of people with
lots of technology to "empower" them who are still sitting around being
unemployed and recieving government assistance for one reason or another
most being that empowerment comes from within.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Hoad" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: Assistive Technology Should Empower, Not "Help," Disabled
People


posting from Windsor Maine;
Steve Hoad

Thanks for this post, Kelly!

It gives me information about this "glove" that I hadn't had.

It also points to the exact reason the National Federation of the Blind
has
broken ground for and is building the International Training and
Research
Institute for the Blind as an addition to the National Center in
Baltimore.

There has been much angry discussion about the garage for parking
contained
there, and much dispute about the need for the project.  However,
NFB will house a research library and laboratories and classrooms in
order
that researchers can be working right at the center, where the blind
come
and the research can involve and be done by blind people.

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