The Jewish Guild for the Blind’s new Autism and Blindness Tele-Support Group
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AmandaPosted
Sat 23 Oct 2010 12:23pm
The Jewish Guild for the blind would like to share with you a free resource for families of children who are autistic and vision impaired. In the United States, 1.8 million children under the age of 18 are blind or seriously visually impaired. The Jewish Guild for the Blind’s new Autism and Blindness Tele-Support Group provides free weekly
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Blind Planet aims to be one-stop blindness resource
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Ron GrahamPosted
Wed 12 Nov 2008 7:13pm
for the blind community, and / or for those people who are interested in learning about blindness and how blind people go about their daily lives. Regardless of whether you are blind...If you’re interested in news, products, and information specific to blindness, you might want to bookmark the
Blind Planet
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The Jewish Guild for the Blind’s National Tele-Support Network
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AmandaPosted
Fri 31 Jul 2009 9:34am
The only one of its kind in the country provides free, weekly telephone support groups facilitated by social workers and psychologists for families of blind, visually... interaction among these families. For many, The Guild’s
Tele-Support Network is the only opportunity for them to interact with
other families with a blind or visually impaired
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The Blind Date that Shouldn’t Be a Blind Date
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Sara M.Posted
Mon 26 Jan 2009 4:26pm1 Comment
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You meet a guy in a bar when your beer goggles are in full effect. On top of the blurred vision, there is a lot going on to distract you like your best friend making out... hair, black hair, if he wore glasses, or if he was short.
You decide to call him back and make a go of it. He’s nice, he gets you to laugh, and his text messages are sweet. He
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Deaf-blind communication goes portable
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DeafBlogPosted
Mon 10 Aug 2009 3:32pm
with the Washington State Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ODHH) as well as several deaf-blind individuals.
Using the device, a deaf-blindperson can have real time conversations in pubs... called the BrailleNote - the deaf-blindperson types a message into the device which comes with either a standard Braille or QWERTY keyboard.
This is then delivered to the screen
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audible is no longer blind friendly
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Joey S.Posted
Sun 07 Sep 2008 8:36pm
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It is gone and makes your website very hard for blind people to navigate!
We need it back!!!
Not only am I am blindperson that deserves equal access, but, I am one hell... blind people to do the same, maybe if enough of us say something they will respond.
audiblebeta@audible.com.
Hi,
I have been trying to contact you guys for some time
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