Hello VRTs, I attended the AFB Leadership conference/AER Illinois state conference this past weekend. AFB awarded the M.C. Migel Medal to Kay Ferrell. http://www.afb.org/section.aspx?FolderID=1&SectionID=47&DocumentID=6215 During her acceptance speech she made a point that has had me thinking about what I do ever since. She said we are not "vision professionals" and that we do not do "vision rehabilitation". She said we are actually "visual impairment specialists". This really resonated with me. "She's right!" I thought, "My area of expertise is blindness." I am happy to call myself a CVRT and I am not looking for change at this time but I notice it takes many words to explain what I do to clients, families, and especially professionals outside the field. Our profession is already suffering from a low profile. I wonder if we complicated our status further by choosing VRT as our title. Kay Ferrell's comment, I confess, had me yearning just a wee bit for a professional title that clearly stated what I do to the layman. My apologies to Kay Ferrell if I have misinterpreted the point she was trying to make at the time. Whatever she meant to say has certainly been thought provoking to me. Polly Abbott CVRT Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist Director of Rehabilitation Services Second Sense 65 E. Wacker Place Suite 1010 Chicago, IL 60601 (312) 236-8569 www.second-sense.org<http://www.second-sense.org/> Do you want to help our braille students read again? Join our campaign and adopt a braille writer<http://www.razoo.com/story/Adopt-A-Brailler> today!