I count myself as blessed as I go about my work here in Outreach. We have so many resources to draw on in Texas to provide support and training to families of children with visual impairments and deafblindness and the professionals serving those families. Though we know there is so much more to be done for children with visual impairments in our state, we are getting there. In some respects, there is very little available for those children educationally, but at the same time, she was extremely impressed with what the families and professionals had been able to do.
Parents work as teachers and aides.
Classes are held in houses or where ever space can be found. Tables and chairs are built out of cardboard, and materials are scraped together where they find them. It seems unfair that we should have so much when they have so little. However, in this country only thirty or forty years ago, we were in about that same place. They will get there, too, I think.