My wife is blind, taught blind-living skills, and braille for many
years, after retirement a volunteer basis.

Lynn Zelvin wrote:

> blindness skills are properly respected, I am particularly worried about
> the attempt of RESNA to set itself up as the certifying body for
> assistive tech  competency.  They have claimed their exam is just this
> little value added thing, but if you read, you will see that they seem to
> be considering themselves a certifying body and others are now referring
> to this without an explanation of the problems involved.
 ouch.
> 2. There are many more blind people working with blindness-related
> assistive technology than there seem to be disabled people working, for
> example, as occupational therapists.
 Yes.

> particular.  I am interested to hear if there are any blind people out
> there who have taken and/or passed the RESNA exam, or even how many have
> even heard of it.
 Not heard of it, probably couldn't pass, but it would wxclude therefore
a good teacher.

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Will; K2LB  <[log in to unmask]>