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Click Here for the ADBMA Website The Alabama Deafblind Multihandicapped Association promotes parental activities throughout the state. The group publishes quarterly newsletters, maintains an informational web site, promotes parental involvement in local and state training activities and hosts an annual statewide parent conference. 2005 Helen Keller Festival Thursday June 23, 2005 4:00 p.m. Get acquainted social in the hospitality suite at the Holiday Inn in Sheffield, AL. Followed by the parade held down town Tuscumbia at 6:00 p.m. Friday morning bring your children to the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind. Registration will begin at 8:30 promptly. They will have fun activities and snacks. Please call me as soon as you know you will attend so we will know how many children to prepare for. We will need their name, age, and a little something about them. If they have a favorite game or toy you are welcome to bring it also. This year we will have our Annual business meeting first, beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Friday June 24th. It is important that you be on time because we have important business to attend. We are planning on having some concurrent sessions this year starting after lunch. We plan to have a speaker with a presentation on International Research on Congenital Rubella syndrome starting after our business meeting is finished. Also we will have a parent that has gone through the process of getting Guardianship for her son attending our meeting. You can ask her questions and she will tell you the process she went through. The rest of the concurrent sessions will be, on “Personal Future Planning” the “Now Plan”, and possibly Orientation to Mobility. Some Consumers from Alabama Industries for the Blind will be attending the Festival this year, some time during our sessions we will have the opportunity to talk to them and observe them. This will be a treat for us. Hotel reservations can me made by calling 256-381-4710. This is the Holiday Inn in Shefield, AL Please call Veronica Tuck @ 256-761-3314 for the information you need for reserving your room. The deadline for the discount rate is June 10, 2005. ADBMA
Everyone is invited to meet in the hospitality room, starting at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 23,2005. We will have a gathering to introduce everyone, especially our new parents, or first time attending parents and children. Food will be provided. Following the social, we will leave to attend the parade in downtown Tuscumbia. Some of our children usually participate in the parade; so if you want your child to participate, please let us know. We will leave a little early to get them there to get in the line up. Following the parade you can come back to the hospitality room for more food and fun, or you can leisure on your own. There are lots of fun things to do during the festival, so help yourself to tour or whatever you want to do. Remember in order to get some of your expense reimbursed you need to let Kathy Schafer or Veronica Tuck know you are attending, by sending your name, address, phone number, and how many are coming with you and if you need respite for your children. Send response to ADBMA P.O. Box 1983 Decatur, AL 35602. Or call Veronica Tuck 256-761-3314 by June 17, 2005. This is very important because as always we are on a budget! So do not wait until the last minute to reserve your room or let us know you are attending. (You must attend the business meeting and some of the evening sessions to qualify for reimbursement).
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