Future Reflections

The National Federation of the Blind Magazine for Parents and Teachers of Blind Children

Vol. 14, No. 3 Fall 1995

Barbara Cheadle, Editor

ISSN-0883-3419

For more information about blindness and children contact:
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
1800 Johnson Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 659-9314, ext. 2360
www.nfb.org/nopbc • nfb@nfb.org • bcheadle@nfb.org

CONTENTS

Vol. 14, No. 3 Fall 1995

My Body Belongs to Me by Barbara Cheadle

The Helping Hand Syndrome by Shirley Osman

Guiding Hands: Help or Hindrance? by Lilli Nielsen, Ph.D.

Early Independent Skills

A Salute to the Winners of the 1994-1995 Braille Readers are Leaders Contest

The Secret Code Braille Club by Peggy Niedermann

Whole Language or Phonics? It Shouldn't be Either/Or by Doris Willoughby

Blind Students and Practical Science by Kathryn E. Hill

What We Wish You had Known: An Open Letter to our Parents

Seven Little Words by Linda Zani Thomas and Christine Bottino, MA, SLP-CFY

Estate Planning: What Parents of Children with Disabilities Should Know by Greg Trapp

Judo Team Kicks up Confidence in Blind

Quick and Easy Home-made or Home-found Toys

Assistive Technology

Reflections on a Painful Eye by Pauletta Feldman

The Dangerous Yew and Other Tales of Growing up with Blindness by Sally Caroline

From the Bookshelf

Parent Power

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!