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Our guest host Joe Ruffalo interviews Diane Mcgeorge, Colorado State NFB President regarding; the Colorado Center for the Blind and this years NFB "National Federation of the Blind 2005 National Convention, held in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Diane Mcgeorge has had a very active, blessed life having a wonderful husband who is as active in the NFB as she is, have raised 2 sons, have 4 grandchildren, and
live in Denver, Colorado which is, indeed, the garden spot of the world as
far as she is concerned.
She has had the wonderful opportunity to be the founder of the NFB Colorado Center for the Blind, opening in 1987 and served as its executive director the
majority of the time until I retired in 1999. She served as the chairman of
the board for the Colorado Center at the present time and still am very
active in volunteering wherever she can at the Center.
"Our Center has grown from a beginning student load of 5 students when we opened our doors to students in January, 1988, and have grown to serve an average student load at one time of 20-22. Throughout the course of a year, an average of 40
students pass through the center. Our classes consist of Braille,
independent travel using the long white cane, daily living skills,
technology classes, job seeking skills and intersnhips in employment, and in
August we are opening a refurbished wood shop where students will be using
hand tools as well as power saws and other power tools. Our challenge
recreation programs are second to none teaching technical rock climbing,
white water rafting, camping, downhill and cross country skiing, and all of
our classes are designed to build confidence in one's skills."
"Dfr. Jernigan said years ago that a good rehabilitation center must be a
center that not only teaches skills but is an attitude factory and ours
certainly is that. We want all who pass through our doors to change all the
negative attitudes they have carried about blindness and the abilities of
blind people. We want to empower our students, to have them come to know
that blindness is truly no more than a physical inconvenience. Once we
change our own attitudes about ourselves and supposed limitations, then we
can change the attitudes of the society around us."
live in Denver, Colorado which is, indeed, the garden spot of the world as
far as she is concerned.
She has had the wonderful opportunity to be the founder of the NFB Colorado Center for the Blind, opening in 1987 and served as its executive director the
majority of the time until I retired in 1999. She served as the chairman of
the board for the Colorado Center at the present time and still am very
active in volunteering wherever she can at the Center.
"Our Center has grown from a beginning student load of 5 students when we opened our doors to students in January, 1988, and have grown to serve an average student load at one time of 20-22. Throughout the course of a year, an average of 40
students pass through the center. Our classes consist of Braille,
independent travel using the long white cane, daily living skills,
technology classes, job seeking skills and intersnhips in employment, and in
August we are opening a refurbished wood shop where students will be using
hand tools as well as power saws and other power tools. Our challenge
recreation programs are second to none teaching technical rock climbing,
white water rafting, camping, downhill and cross country skiing, and all of
our classes are designed to build confidence in one's skills."
"Dfr. Jernigan said years ago that a good rehabilitation center must be a
center that not only teaches skills but is an attitude factory and ours
certainly is that. We want all who pass through our doors to change all the
negative attitudes they have carried about blindness and the abilities of
blind people. We want to empower our students, to have them come to know
that blindness is truly no more than a physical inconvenience. Once we
change our own attitudes about ourselves and supposed limitations, then we
can change the attitudes of the society around us."
To learn more about the Colorado Center For The Blind visit www.cocenter.org
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