The Blind Abilities Team is excited to share the news that the Blind Abilities Skill is launched in the U.S. and you can enable the Blind Abilities Skill on your Amazon devices. Just say, “Alexa, enable Blind Abilities.” Alexa will welcome you to the new Blind Abilities Podcast and ask if you want to listen to the latest episode. You can say, “Yes” or ask say a few other commands such as: Alexa, Tell Blind Abilities to skip -backward 10...
In collaboration with Jack Chen, Blind Abilities presents ExcelAbility. A collection of podcasts from Jack Chen’s ExcelAbility Team. ExcelAbility, empowering excellence and success for people with disabilities. to learn more about ExcelAbility and to connect with the team, check out ExcelAbility on the web at www.teamexcelability.com Jack Chen delivers talks and training for corporations and other organizations on empowering success for people...
Show Summary: Welcome to Job Insights Extra, part of the Job Insights Podcast with Serina Gilbert and Jeff Thompson, a podcast focused on the world of employment, career pathways and gainful and meaningful employment.The Job Insights Extra podcasts are success stories, interviews and demos that enhance the experience of reaching that career you want.On this Job Insights Extra we talk to Ivan Delgado, a Business Enterprise Program Operator from...
Conquering mountains is quite an accomplishment yet sometimes the mountain is not high in the sky and sometimes it lies very low and unnoticed. Bullying is a steep mountain to navigate when all you wanted was acceptance and inclusion. Katheryn Menne has transversed a journey of bullying, low expectations and low vision since her childhood. She has used the services of State Services for the Blind and has landed a job as a Certified Nursing...
Sarah Barton is a Film Maker, Activist and has been involved in creating documentaries and shows with Disabilities in mind. Starting after Film School and with much success, Sarah has released her latest project, Defiant Lives. A documentary on decades of Disability Activists. Bringing awareness to the fight for rights, dignity and a focus on society being the problem rather than the disability. Defiant Lives introduces the world to the most...
Kylee Jungbauer is a rehabilitation counselor at state services for the blind. Her concentration is transition age students. We talked to Kylie about what services they provide for students. Transitioning from high school to college and to the workplace. State services for the blind has a Transition Unit that facilitates a path for students, providing guidance and opportunities for success. From assessments to training, the transition Team...
Blind Abilities often presents interviews with people whose stories inspire us to escalate our goals and expectations of ourselves, and which motivate us to be better citizens of the blindness community. Today we feature one such individual. Today we introduce Hope Paulos. Hope shows us her persistence and insistence on excelling in school, with two Bachelors degrees and three Masters-level Certificates, her thoughts on education and advice for...
In collaboration with Jack Chen, Blind Abilities presents ExcelAbility. A collection of podcasts from Jack Chen’s ExcelAbility Team. ExcelAbility, empowering excellence and success for people with disabilities. to learn more about ExcelAbility and to connect with the team, check out WxcelAbility on the web at www.teamexcelability.com Jack Chen delivers talks and training for corporations and other organizations on empowering success for people...
Kosta and Ashley are the husband and wife team behind FlickType and was the team that brought us FleksyVO. They bring us this new app for the iPhone with a new commitment to the Blindness community and want to improve upon your user experience and make this app a keyboard you can use anywhere and in any app. Kosta tells us how he got involved with coding on the IOS platform back when the App Store first opened for business. Ashley tells us how...
Be My Eyes is the ever growing creation of Hans Wiberg. He envisioned a service that would help the Blind and Visually Impaired have a means of connecting with volunteers to assist with a task and thus becoming their eyes for a few minutes. This idea was launched 3 years ago and I had the privilege of interviewing Hans. Well, here we are 3 years later and Hans has brought the Be My Eyes App to the world. With over 64,000 users and an astonishing...