WHEREAS, given proper training in the alternative techniques of Braille, daily living skills, and cane travel, blind persons of any age can become independent and lead productive lives; and
WHEREAS, blind senior citizens in Maryland rarely have the opportunity to receive such training; and
WHEREAS, the Maryland Division of Vocational Rehabilitation fails to provide training to blind senior citizens, using the lame excuses of no funds and no career goals: Now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind of Maryland in Convention assembled this fourth day of October, 1987, in the City of Frostburg, Maryland, that this organization urges the Maryland Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to extend its services to the senior blind, by offering quality training in the alternative techniques of blindness.