Full Transcript Show Summary: State Services for the Blind hosted a Career Expo for high school and college students who are blind, low vision, or DeafBlind. The event took place on Saturday, April 27. Throughout the Expo students had the opportunity to: Connect with adults with a vision loss from a variety of professions and careers.Hear from college representatives about what college is like.Learn why diversity matters from an employer’s...
Full Transcript Show Summary: State Services for the Blind hosted a Career Expo for high school and college students who are blind, low vision, or DeafBlind. The event took place on Saturday, April 27. Throughout the Expo students had the opportunity to: Connect with adults with a vision loss from a variety of professions and careers.Hear from college representatives about what college is like.Learn why diversity matters from an employer’s...
Show Summary: Welcome back to That Blind Tech Show with Brian Fischler, AT Specialist from New York, Allison Mervis, VR Counselor extraordinaire, from Ohio and Jeff Thompson, Wood Worker, Teacher and Just an all around good guy. I also write the show notes and Jeff is me, so, no bias here. This show is faster than spelled water, funnier than squeaky shoes and audio described for your listening pleasure. There is nothing quite like Described...
Starting your partnership with Vocational Rehabilitation is highly individualized and will look different for every single person. With that said, however, there are general procedures and timelines to keep in mind when preparing for your very first meeting with Vocational Rehabilitation. The first step towards receiving services with Vocational Rehabilitation is attending your Intake appointment. This appointment is a time for you...
I am frequently asked if I can visualize things, even though I can’t see them. And if I have a visual memory of what things look like from before I went blind. The answer is that yes, I do remember what most things that I have seen before look like. And yes, I can visualize my surroundings. That being said, I am not always correct in my visualization; and I do not by any means know what everything looks like. This gets me, as a blind person,...
Full Transcript Show Summary: Simon Bonenfant, a transition age student in high school and our Teen Blind Abilities correspondent, went to Washington D.C. to educate Representatives and Senators on the legislative goals of the National Federation of the Blind during the annual Washington Seminar. Simon took time to interview Gabe Kaiser, Manager of Government Affairs for the National Federation of the Blind. Gabe tells us about the 3...
Full Transcript Show Summary: Upon popular demand, we bring you the SeeingAI Update. This demo was previously published on That Blind Tech Showand to break it out and let it breathe on its own, we bring you the iPhone101 SeeingAIUpdate. You can find all the iPhone101 seriesin our extensive library of over 500 episodes and you can find That Blind Tech Shows there as well. Remember to subscribe and stay up to date with all of the...
Full Transcript Show Summary: NCSAB Keynote speaker: Paul Schroeder, Director, Public Policy & Strategic Alliances at Aira Tech Corporation,and spent over 22 years at American Foundation for the Blindin charge of Programs and Policy and Government Relations and more. Paul was asked to speak before the National Council of State Agencies for the Blind in Washington D.C. Paul spoke about his schooling, his training challenges...
Full Transcript Show Summary: In this Tech Abilities podcast we talk with Monte from Orcam. The maker of the MyEye 2which reads text, recognizes faces, identifies products and more. Monte tells us about how Israel equipped polling booths with the Orcam MyEye 2 during the elections to assist Blind and Visually Impaired voters cast their vote independently. Monte gives us a brief demo of the MyEye 2 and talks about the uses and...
Full Transcript Show Summary: In this Tech Abilities podcast we talk with Timothy from Eschenbach. There are many opportunities in our everyday life when a vision aid can be beneficial and help improve one’s quality of life. When you’re reading a newspaper or a bill or watching television or at an outdoor event, do you often find that the object being viewed is too small or difficult to see? If so, Eschenbach can help! In this Tech...