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Visiting Schools in Pohnpei

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The main goal of visiting Micronesia is for me to gain a real-world perspective on schools and books for students with disabilities. For the most part, the English language textbooks were as modern as textbooks you'd see in mainland U.S. The books in the local languages were not in as great a shape.

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Donna Leads a Home Visit to a Blind Toddler

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She has also made Micronesia her professional mission focus. The community helps out. Donna asks about his language development, and finds out that he had a fair number of single words. Donna is the main reason I'm involved with this project: she's an itinerant teacher of the blind in rural Minnesota.