Re: [Admindiv] [OandM] Email I sent to Assembly Member higher Ed. today
Great letter, Grace, thank you! I just sent the following message to each
of the Assembly Higher Education Committee members:
Please vote to put A05581 on the Higher Education committee Agenda and move
this bill to license vision rehabilitation and orientation and mobility
(O&M) specialists forward this session.
I am an O&M specialist, and one of the people I am now working with has been
unable to move her wrist without pain for almost a year because she was
taught to use the cane incorrectly by a well-meaning professional. That
professional is not a certified orientation and mobility specialist, and the
injury would not have happened if this woman had received her initial O&M
instruction from a qualified O&M specialist.
Thank you for your support in the effort to ensure that O&M and vision
rehabilitation services are provided by qualified professionals.
-- Dona
Dona Sauerburger, COMS
Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist
1606 Huntcliff Way, Gambrills, Maryland 21054
Dona@Sauerburger.org
301-858-0138
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grace Ambrose Zaken" gambrose@hunter.cuny.edu
To: "'John Kelly'" jkellyinom@msn.com; "'O&M List'"
oandm@lists.aerbvi.org; aernet@lists.aerbvi.org;
aer-divisions@lists.aerbvi.org; aer-chapters@lists.aerbvi.org; "'AER
Administration Division Listserv'" admindiv@lists.aerbvi.org
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:34 PM
Subject: [OandM] Email I sent to Assembly Member higher Ed. today
Dear Assembly Member:
On Monday you will be participating in a debate, the outcome of which will
affect the safety of over 1 million New Yorkers with visual impairments. I
know you support this bill and I want to thank you for that support and
urge
you to vote to put A05581 on Higher Education committee Agenda and move
this
bill to license vision rehabilitation and orientation and mobility
specialists forward this session.
Individuals with visual impairments are one of the most vulnerable groups
in
New York and this bill will finally offer basic protection from
unlicensed,
untrained people who provide damaging advice and serve only to limit them
further by teaching them improper and unsafe techniques.
What is worse than no cane and no instruction in how to use it? Having the
wrong cane and misusing it and having misinformation about how to orient
to
the environment. When a cane is used incorrectly it provides no protection
to its user. When someone doesn't' know how to reorient non-visually, they
get lost and scared.
If you are too scared to travel and you think you have "received O&M
services" you think you did something wrong or are unable to learn how to
regain independence - so, you sit home and become dependent on others and
stop living a full life.
Don't let this continue to happen - Vote to put 05581 on the agenda.
If you have time, please watch the short video from Hunter College below-
it
describes the professions and shows one of the many graduates who work as
O&M specialists and are visually impaired. This bill is welcome by
professionals and consumers alike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWcC6pLVtE
Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken
To see Hunter's video promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWcC6pLVtE
To learn more about O&M visit my blog: http://gambrosez.wordpress.com/
http://gambrosez.wordpress.com/
To obtain more information on Hunter College Programs in Blindness and
Visual Impairment go to:
<http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/school-of-education/programs/graduate/special-ed
ucation/blind-visually-impaired>
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/school-of-education/programs/graduate/special-edu
cation/blind-visually-impaired
Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Project Coordinator RT and O&M Programs
Department of Special Education
Hunter College CUNY
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065
(212) 772-4741
From: aer-chapters-bounces@lists.aerbvi.org
[mailto:aer-chapters-bounces@lists.aerbvi.org] On Behalf Of John Kelly
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 2:05 PM
To: O&M List; aernet@lists.aerbvi.org; aer-divisions@lists.aerbvi.org;
aer-chapters@lists.aerbvi.org; AER Administration Division Listserv
Subject: [AER-Chapters] AER International Conference Message - July 21,
2010
Dear Colleagues,
All of us at AER hope this finds you doing well! Summer will be here soon
and we have a lot to offer you at the AER International conference in
beautiful Little Rock, Arkansas beginning July 21st! Below are direct
links
to the conference registration page, preliminary schedule and hotel
information.
http://www.aerbvi.org/2010conference/
http://www.aerbvi.org/2010conference/schedule.htm
http://www.aerbvi.org/2010conference/housing_transport.htm
Take a moment today and register! We have hundreds of colleagues and
dozens
of vendors attending and we hope you can participate in this great
opportunity as well!
AER International Conference 2010
Featuring the Orientation & Mobility Division Conference within a
Conference
July 21-25, 2010 | Little Rock, Arkansas
See you in July!!!
John
John Kelly, M.Ed, CAS
President - Association for Education and Rehabilitation
of the Blind and Visually Impaired - www.aerbvi.org
http://www.aerbvi.org/
John J Kelly Vision Consulting, LLC
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I bet others have stories too. Keep 'em coming. Know for every one of us there is someone in opposition to high standards. Cause why go through the trouble of a degree if you can ruin someone's life for free and earn a paycheck to boot?
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Dona Sauerburger" dona@sauerburger.org
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 01:36:44
To: Grace Ambrose Zakengambrose@hunter.cuny.edu; 'John Kelly'jkellyinom@msn.com; 'O&M List'oandm@lists.aerbvi.org; aernet@lists.aerbvi.org; aer-divisions@lists.aerbvi.org; aer-chapters@lists.aerbvi.org; 'AER Administration Division Listserv'admindiv@lists.aerbvi.org
Subject: Re: [OandM] Email I sent to Assembly Member higher Ed. today
Great letter, Grace, thank you! I just sent the following message to each
of the Assembly Higher Education Committee members:
Please vote to put A05581 on the Higher Education committee Agenda and move
this bill to license vision rehabilitation and orientation and mobility
(O&M) specialists forward this session.
I am an O&M specialist, and one of the people I am now working with has been
unable to move her wrist without pain for almost a year because she was
taught to use the cane incorrectly by a well-meaning professional. That
professional is not a certified orientation and mobility specialist, and the
injury would not have happened if this woman had received her initial O&M
instruction from a qualified O&M specialist.
Thank you for your support in the effort to ensure that O&M and vision
rehabilitation services are provided by qualified professionals.
-- Dona
Dona Sauerburger, COMS
Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist
1606 Huntcliff Way, Gambrills, Maryland 21054
Dona@Sauerburger.org
301-858-0138
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grace Ambrose Zaken" gambrose@hunter.cuny.edu
To: "'John Kelly'" jkellyinom@msn.com; "'O&M List'"
oandm@lists.aerbvi.org; aernet@lists.aerbvi.org;
aer-divisions@lists.aerbvi.org; aer-chapters@lists.aerbvi.org; "'AER
Administration Division Listserv'" admindiv@lists.aerbvi.org
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:34 PM
Subject: [OandM] Email I sent to Assembly Member higher Ed. today
Dear Assembly Member:
On Monday you will be participating in a debate, the outcome of which will
affect the safety of over 1 million New Yorkers with visual impairments. I
know you support this bill and I want to thank you for that support and
urge
you to vote to put A05581 on Higher Education committee Agenda and move
this
bill to license vision rehabilitation and orientation and mobility
specialists forward this session.
Individuals with visual impairments are one of the most vulnerable groups
in
New York and this bill will finally offer basic protection from
unlicensed,
untrained people who provide damaging advice and serve only to limit them
further by teaching them improper and unsafe techniques.
What is worse than no cane and no instruction in how to use it? Having the
wrong cane and misusing it and having misinformation about how to orient
to
the environment. When a cane is used incorrectly it provides no protection
to its user. When someone doesn't' know how to reorient non-visually, they
get lost and scared.
If you are too scared to travel and you think you have "received O&M
services" you think you did something wrong or are unable to learn how to
regain independence - so, you sit home and become dependent on others and
stop living a full life.
Don't let this continue to happen - Vote to put 05581 on the agenda.
If you have time, please watch the short video from Hunter College below-
it
describes the professions and shows one of the many graduates who work as
O&M specialists and are visually impaired. This bill is welcome by
professionals and consumers alike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWcC6pLVtE
Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken
To see Hunter's video promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWcC6pLVtE
To learn more about O&M visit my blog: http://gambrosez.wordpress.com/
http://gambrosez.wordpress.com/
To obtain more information on Hunter College Programs in Blindness and
Visual Impairment go to:
<http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/school-of-education/programs/graduate/special-ed
ucation/blind-visually-impaired>
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/school-of-education/programs/graduate/special-edu
cation/blind-visually-impaired
Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken
Project Coordinator RT and O&M Programs
Department of Special Education
Hunter College CUNY
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065
(212) 772-4741
From: aer-chapters-bounces@lists.aerbvi.org
[mailto:aer-chapters-bounces@lists.aerbvi.org] On Behalf Of John Kelly
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 2:05 PM
To: O&M List; aernet@lists.aerbvi.org; aer-divisions@lists.aerbvi.org;
aer-chapters@lists.aerbvi.org; AER Administration Division Listserv
Subject: [AER-Chapters] AER International Conference Message - July 21,
2010
Dear Colleagues,
All of us at AER hope this finds you doing well! Summer will be here soon
and we have a lot to offer you at the AER International conference in
beautiful Little Rock, Arkansas beginning July 21st! Below are direct
links
to the conference registration page, preliminary schedule and hotel
information.
http://www.aerbvi.org/2010conference/
http://www.aerbvi.org/2010conference/schedule.htm
http://www.aerbvi.org/2010conference/housing_transport.htm
Take a moment today and register! We have hundreds of colleagues and
dozens
of vendors attending and we hope you can participate in this great
opportunity as well!
AER International Conference 2010
Featuring the Orientation & Mobility Division Conference within a
Conference
July 21-25, 2010 | Little Rock, Arkansas
See you in July!!!
John
John Kelly, M.Ed, CAS
President - Association for Education and Rehabilitation
of the Blind and Visually Impaired - www.aerbvi.org
http://www.aerbvi.org/
John J Kelly Vision Consulting, LLC
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