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N C B M OUTREACH Issue No. 43 Permit No. PP.7594/7/2006 April –June 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE President Support Our Cause ..................................................................................................... 2 S. Kulasegaran Special Announcement .............................................................................................. 2 Announcements ......................................................................................................... 3 Special Announcement from the Social Welfare Department ................................... 5 Editor In Memoriam ............................................................................................................. 6 Message from the NCBM President, S. Kulasegaran, Godfrey Ooi Goat See for the First ASEAN Braille Day Carnival................................................................. 7 B.A. (Hons.), Dip Ed. Louis, the Father of Braille Dots By Aimee Koh ............................................................................................................. 8 Jasa Braille By Choo Kim Yoon ..................................................................................................... 10 Produced by Thanks to Louis Braille By Somiin Sualin ........................................................................................................ 10 THE NATIONAL Dialogue Between NCBM and the Ministry of Education COUNCIL FOR THE By Ivan Ho Tuck Choy .............................................................................................. 11 Survey on the Blind in the Teaching Profession BLIND, MALAYSIA By Moses Choo .......................................................................................................... 13 The Challenges I Faced in the MAB Internship Programme 94-B Jalan Tun By Colin Ng Soon Beng ............................................................................................. 15 A Mind-map of the K.L. Sentral Station Sambanthan, Brickfields By Inungkiran bt. Mongijal ........................................................................................ 17 50470 KUALA LUMPUR. Upgrading of the Gurney Training Centre By George Thomas & Wong Yoon Loong ................................................................... 18 News from the Malaysian Association for the Blind ................................................. 19 Tel.: 03-22735508 My Life as a Blind Person 22724959 By William Wong ........................................................................................................ 21 IPC Development Strategies for Malaysia, Part I Fax : 03-22724960 By S. Radha Krishnan ................................................................................................ 23 Effective Techniques for Volunteers in Guiding the Blind E-Mail By Wong Huey Siew ................................................................................................... 25 The Question of True Integration of Blind Persons in Society .................................. 27 [email protected] Recommendations for the National Disability Budget 2006 By Dato’ Dr. Mohinder Singh & Godfrey Ooi ........................................................... 30 A Point to Ponder: Just Lend Me Your Ears, Please By Wong Kow ............................................................................................................. 32 Principal Office-bearers and Council Members A quarterly Of NCBM FROM 2004 - 2006 .................................................................................. 33 publication of NCBM Chairpersons of Committees ...................................................................................... 34 Representatives to Other Organisations ..................................................................... 35 Earn Some Extra Cash ............................................................................................... 36 1 SUPPORT SPECIAL OUR CAUSE ANNOUNCE- IF YOU KNOW MENT OF ANY BLIND The National Council for the PERSON NEEDING Blind, Malaysia (NCBM) pro- Readers are reminded that vides a Vital link between the their contribution of articles, sug- REGISTRATION organisations serving the blind gestions and jokes are most wel- in this Country by acting as come for inclusion in “The NCBM the national coordinating body. Outreach”. However, please note FOR Through NCBM, the organisa- that it would be very helpful to the tions for and of the blind have a Editor if such contributions could channel to Discuss and formulate be submitted either on diskette or EDUCATION OR national policies and plans and to on single-sided Braille pages to pioneer new programmes for the facilitate editing. benefit of the blind. REHABILITATION, For details of payments, Your financial support will, please see the last page. therefore, go a long way in helping PLEASE CONTACT to bring about new developments and progress for the blind. All US IMMEDIATELY contributions are deeply appreci- ated. Donations should be made in the name of the National Council for the Blind, Malaysia. Address: NCBM Tel: 03-2272 4959 94-B Jalan Tun Sambanthan Brickfields 03-2272 1442 50470 KUALA LUMPUR. Tel: 03-22735508/22724959 We believe in Fax: 03-22724960 working together MAB for common Tel: 03-2272 2673 good 03-2272 2677 2 ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. ICEVI CONFERENCE The 2006 information technol- 4. SPEECH SOFTWARE ogy training calendar of MAB is FOR MOBILE PHONE The International Conference available in the following formats on Education for the Visually Im- – plain text, word, PowerPoint, The I.T. Department of MAB paired will be held from July 16 to Braille and audio. The courses is offering a free service on the 21, 2006 at the Putra World Trade are open to blind individuals and demonstration and installation of Centre, Kuala Lumpur. The Ma- to organisations serving the blind. mobile phone softwares, namely laysian Association for the Blind Talx, MobileSpeak and Adnota. is the host organiser and the con- If you are interested in the These softwares are suitable for ference is being co-sponsored by i.t. calendar and registration, Nokia handsets of the 60 series. MAB and the National Council for please contact Silatulrahim at tel. the Blind, Malaysia. 22722677 ext. 44 or 45. If you are interested, please contact the I.T. Department for an A cordial invitation is extend- A summary of the schedule is appointment. ed to all NGOs and agencies serv- as follows: ing the blind as well as concerned individuals. May 8 – 12, Monday to Friday 5. REPAIR AND First series on the MS Internet SERVICING OF PC’S For more information, please Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN contact Yon Swee Chee or Liza Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, The I.T. Department is also Umi at MAB, tel. 22722677 ext. Skype and Jaws screen reader. prepared to do repairs and servic- 27 and ext. 30 respectively. ing for pc’s owned by the blind. May 15 – 19, Monday to Friday However, there will be a conces- Second series on MS Internet sionary service charge of RM25.00 2. DEAF-BLIND SERVICE Explorer, etc. plus any other costs that might be incurred such as the cost for com- MAB is looking for a suitable May 22 – 26, Monday to Friday ponents replaced. candidate to be sent to Indonesia Text to Braille for Bahasa Ma- for training in deaf-blind work. laysia and English. Those interested should con- This is in line with the plan to tact En. Rahim or Cik Farah Izura develop a service for deaf-blind June: at tel. 22722677 ext. 44 or 45 re- people. Specialised training on adap- spectively. tive equipment such as Braillenote, In due course, this trained per- Pacmate, mobile phones, PDAs, son may be considered for full- etc. 6. THIRD NATIONAL time or part-time employment ABILYMPICS 2006 with MAB. October: Special requests. Ten skills have been selected Interested persons should for the Third National Abilympics register with Norfarah Jori at tel. December: beginning in April at the Bangi In- 22722677 extension 21. Training for persons with spe- dustrial and Rehabilitation Train- cial needs such as the deaf-blind, ing Centre and culminating in the parents, care-givers, etc. finale programme scheduled for 3. I.T. TRAINING July 22 – 24, 2006 at the MAK- CALENDAR PEN building in Sentul, Kuala Lumpur. 3 The targeted months, events Four talents have been select- and venues are as follows: ed for the First VSA competition 2007, i.e. singing, playing musical April instruments, dancing and drama. Dress-making-Bangi Centre The attempt to The target groups will be May disabled persons from two age Wood-carving – PPOC, Kelantan groups – those 18 years and be- silent a man is low and those who are 19 years May old and above. Pottery – Sunway School, the greatest hon- Subang Jaya For singing and musical in- struments, cash prizes to be of- June fered are RM3,000, RM2,000 and our you can be- Basket-making – Taman Harapan RM1,000. in Temerloh, Pahang For dancing and drama, the stow on him. It July 22 prizes are RM5,000, RM4,000 English text processing and and RM3,000. creating web pages – MAKPEN means that you building, Sentul, K.L. We shall keep you informed of further developments. July 23 recognise his su- Poster designing and PC assembly – MAKPEN building 8. FIRST MALAYSIAN CONFERENCE ON periority to your- July 24 REHABILITATION OF Water-colour painting and floral THE DISABLED arrangement. MCR will be organising the self. Cash prizes of RM500, First Malaysian Conference on RM300 and RM100 will be Rehabilitation for the Disabled awarded to the three best per- from September 5 – 7, 2006. The formers of each event. Only