The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is inviting community members to CeleBraille, an educational event to share information about blindness in our area.
Jordana Engebretsen: “One of my students put together the title of the event, it’s celebration of Braille.”
Jordana Engebretsen teaches blind and visually impaired students in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District and is completely blind herself.
She says opportunities like CeleBraille allow for the community to be educated about blindness and learn that people affected by it are not that different.
Engebretsen: “Breaking barriers, understanding how to do it, who they are. It’s really interesting for people to find out about it. Yes we can use a computer, yes we can watch tv too and we can go to watch a movie. Some say how do you watch a movie being blind and I say well you just listen to the movie. But it’s just all through education.”
Engebretsen says people who are blind or visually impaired usually would rather others ask about their differences than treat them differently.
Engebretsen: “Now I have to use my hearing way more than you do, I have to use my smelling way more than you do, and that means because I use them, they get better. They really get better because when you are totally sighted, when you see things, your hearing and your smell are there but they are not used as much as when you are blind.”
CeleBraille is an open invitation to our community to learn about blindness and Braille and will be from 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm Friday, November 6th, at the Soldotna Public Library.
