Scrubs & Squeeky at Blind services Party 4 of 8 – here is me & my freind Squeeky at a party for the blind services.

 

Blind student overcomes social stigmas, campus challenges

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Tanya Washington, the location and rehabilitation counselor for the Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services in the Division for Blind Services, is one of the people who help blind students all the way from high school to when they …
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Man With Service Animal Asked to Get Off City Bus

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He added, "[The driver] said 'No you can't get on the bus, I need to talk to call my supervisor' and I said 'Well according to the [Americans with Disabilities Act], this dog is a service animal, and his allowed anywhere I am'." Kevin Elwood with the …
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The week's scuttlebutt: federal shutdown hurts the blind; Raleigh food task …

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More than 50 social workers that serve the blind and visually impaired have been furloughed because of the government shutdown, leaving potentially thousands of North Carolinians without services. This story originally reported more than 100, one …
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