BlindFold Games Headed Back to School! Play Games and Get Your Schooling On! Marty Schultz is the creator and designer of BlindFold Games and has over 80 games available for you to get your gaming on. Marty has recently been conducting a survey to check out the educators and teachers and find out what they would like to see in a combo of games mixed with educational learning. Marty has received all positive feedback and is moving forward with...
FlickType: 3rd Party Keyboard for the BVI Community is Arriving Soon! Blog Post by Jessica Hodges Many years ago, before iPhones were as common as stars in the sky, a small, twenty-dollar app hit the app store. This app, Fleksy by name, made quite a splash in the blind community, and the world at large. Their goal was a simple one, to make typing on a touch screen happy again. The way they went about this, was somewhat revolutionary. ...
Fernanda Silva: A Persistent and Driven Individual, Her Amazing Life Story and is This the First Aira Baby? Blind Abilities features Fernanda Silva, born in Brazil, immigrating to the US at an early age, and experiencing successes and set-backs that few of us will ever realize. Despite them all, Fernanda maintains an extremely positive and upbeat attitude towards life. she has overcome much, such as transitioning to blindness, being diagnosed...
Welcome to Episode 5 of Job Insights with Serina Gilbert and Jeff Thompson. We focus on Employment, Careers, enhancing opportunities and bringing you the latest innovations from across the Vocational Rehabilitation field to ensure your choices lead you down the career pathway that you want and succeed in gainful employment. From getting started with services, to assessments, Individual Plan for Employment (IPE) to gaining the skills to succeed...
Daniel Morris may have made the big transition from Australia to Montreal, Canada for love, however, Daniel’s transition from one career into another was a whole new world in itself. In this podcast Daniel talks about what it was like to return to College and into his Masters program. The challenges he met and overcame. Daniel also gives some great information on nutrition and health as well as the scholarship program that he developed for...
WWDC, World Wide Developers Convention, is Apple’s big day to highlight to the world what is cooking for the developers kitchen. Basically, Tim Cook and the crew at the Apple orchard talk about the tools developers will be able to utilize for apps and software on their devices. iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and the Mac are the big stars and this year, the Apple Watch took over part of the big stage.
On this WWDC episode we brought on a few team...
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 Job Insights Extra #5 we talk to Dan Sippl, President of the Randolph-Sheppard Vendors of America (RSVA)at...
Studying; what to do when By Jessica Hodges Every student knows the feeling. There’s a big paper or test that’s worth a large chunk of the grade. The term’s wrapping up, and plans are being made for Summer, Christmas, or any other break. The mind is tired from being shoved full of information on a daily basis for the past three to five months. And after this big project, you’re home free and through. But the success of this end of year...
Blind Abilities moves north of the US border and chats with Geoff Eden. Geoff has been a long time advocate in the Canadian blindness community, with his work for CNIB as a Manager, his procurement of early assistive technology and other adaptive equipment for CNIB clients. Geoff worked for the City of Toronto as an Accessibility Consultant, working with city planners and carving his notch in the city’s accessibility strategy. Listen as Geoff...
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In partnership with State Services for the Blind of Minnesota we are proud to present, PACER Center - Champions for Children with Disabilities: A Visit with pACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center Director Julie Hertzog Full Transcript Below Julie helped start the Bullying Prevention Center back in 2006 and is a recognized National Leader in Bullying Prevention. She has been featured on CNN, NBC Nightly News with Brian...