Welcome to the Job Insights introductory podcast with Serina Gilbert and Jef 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...
Welcome back to another That Blind Tech Show, well, at least that is what the script says, now if Bryan can only untie his tongue. Allison and Jeff join Bryan for episode 14 and although Bryan had his foot in his mouth, he did manage to figure out how to converse without even thinking about removing his foot!
From the Twitter API announcement, to FlickType storming back form it’s Flexsie beginning, reading hand written messages, working with...
Nick D'amBrosio is back with three more tips and tricks for the use of the single finger double tap and hold gesture. Join Pete and Nick as they present the following new gesture using VoiceOver accessibility:: * in the drafts folder in your email app. Double tap and hold on the compose button, and watch your drafts folder open up magically! This is a quick and easy way to resume working on an old draft email, or start a new one. * double tap...
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...
An Enchanted Weekend! by Deborah Kermode This is a story of timing, guidance and intention. Over the fifty years Jerry and I have been married we have often allowed possibilities to guide us. This is our latest adventure and learning.! ! Probably 25 years ago, while in our craft booth at a fair in Honolulu’s Thomas Square Park, Jerry saw a blind man walking by. Always eager to meet a new friend, he invites the man into our booth. Our...
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...