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I was with my host family at one of their friend's houses, and I met this really nice lady. She said she works at a group home and "took care of a girl just like me." Why would you be in a group home if you are just blind? And people are always asking me if I am living in adult foster care. Yuck!
Sometimes, blind people who are in group homes aren't necessarily just blind. For example, I know someone who's in a group home, who is blind, and he is also deaf and has autism. He said it himself that he doesn't want to live independently. That's my little shpeel, anyway.
If there is absolutely nothing else going on with them physically or mentally, and they're blind, I don't understand why they should live in a group home. It's a personal choice.
I agree with the last two posts. I used to work in a group home, and we had a guy there who was blind and retarded. Concerning the "just like me" statement, I think that comes from the tendancy to classify people with disabilities together.
In Cyprus we don't have this kind of thing for blind people anyway. I think there are group houses for people with mental problems.
I think a group house for blind people wouldn't be a bad idea if it was created correctly. I think it would work really well if it was created to help people to live indipendently. If it was a first step away from home and when the person would be ready he or she would have to move to another place it would be fine. But if it was more like an institution than a house i wouldn't agree with it.
I agree with post 5. They do have rehabilitation places here but they are more like buildings than houses or apartements. So I'd rather have lived in a transitional group home in my own city than in a rehab facility in another town because I think I would've gotten more out of that personally. My cousin isn't blind, but she has mild cerebral palsy and is a little slower to learn, but the group home she just moved into (which is a set of apartements, teaches her and the other residents how to live independently thru classes they have about managing money and other things and also requires them to have a job or activity center outside of that so they're not tempted to just stay at the apartments all day. I don't know how long someone can live there, but I'm thinking that eventually they move out and get their own places. I know some have. So I wouldn't think a place like this for blind people would be too bad. It could teach the same skills you'd learn at a center (cooking, money management, mobility, training in how to get a job if needed), those could all be requirements like they are at the centers. And it'd make more sense since all this training would take place in the same city the blind person lived in because I think some people would actually learn and be able to use their new skills (especially the mobility ones) more realistically. At least that's what I feel like would've worked better for me. Of couse many blind people probably wouldn't need this, but I think it would help some that may.
I was in a group home but it had nothing to do with me being blind, it was because my parents were not able to take care of me and I was going through my own problems, that also hadnothing to do with being blind and my siblings who are fully sighted, one of them lived in a foster home and the other one moved out on his own. So the blind person she was talking about was probably there for reasons sighted people get placed in care.
I was in a group home but it had nothing to do with me being blind, it was because my parents were not able to take care of me and I was going through my own problems, that also hadnothing to do with being blind and my siblings who are fully sighted, one of them lived in a foster home and the other one moved out on his own. So the blind person she was talking about was probably there for reasons sighted people get placed in care.
I was in a group home but it had nothing to do with me being blind, it was because my parents were not able to take care of me and I was going through my own problems, that also hadnothing to do with being blind and my siblings who are fully sighted, one of them lived in a foster home and the other one moved out on his own. So the blind person she was talking about was probably there for reasons sighted people get placed in care.