[wisconsin] nice article in University of WI publication aboutblind doc

[John Heim]

I just attended a talk by Dr. Cordes on Monday. You know, he really is a 
remarkable guy. As a blind person, I don't feel obligated to praise other 
blind people. But I think I'd admire Dr. Cordes even if he wasn't blind. He 
is very generous with his time, very easy going, and yet at the same time, a 
real strong person. Its tough to be that driven while at the same time being 
so patient. His talk was full of interesting, new concepts for me. For 
example, he mentioned that when he was trying to get into Notre Dame, a 
professor opened a book to a diagram of a liver, slid it across a table to 
his dad, and asked, "How is he going to learn that?" But Dr. Cordes pointed 
out that  a picture of a liver doesn't really mean anything. That just 
happens to be the way most people learn about liver function. But its not 
the only way and it may not be any better than many other ways you could 
learn about the functions of a liver.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katherine Schneider" <SCHNEIKS at uwec.edu>
To: "National Federation of the Blind of Wisconsin News List" 
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Cc: "ACB of Wisconsin discussion list" <wisconsin at acb.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:08 AM
Subject: [wisconsin] nice article in University of WI publication aboutblind 
doc



 http://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/features/seeing-potential/
Katherine Schneider, Ph.D.
Senior Psychologist, Emerita
Counseling Service
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
schneiks at uwec.edu
Author of To the Left of Inspiration: Adventures in Living with Disabilities 
and a children's book Your Treasure Hunt: Disabilities and Finding Your Gold


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