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For Teachers: Basic Tips For When You Have a Visually Impaired Student in Your Class

… available at the end of this post.] Will you have a child with a visual impairment in your classroom this year? … will find the following basic guidelines helpful in interacting with students: Consider the child as more like … only on the hands or forearms, as you might touch another person in a social situation. Reserve hugging and close …
AFB Staff

Use of Sighted Assistance

… To check in for her physical exam, she needed to interact with an iPad. The screen reader on the iPad was not … kiosk, so the participant sought help from another patient who was waiting, having to give her name and date of birth … with sharing financial or medical details with another person while getting assistance. For example, in order to …

Social Experiences

… city. —Congenitally VI White male, aged 65 to 74 years, with no additional disabilities The COVID-19 pandemic has … or others. (n=943, M=2.09, SD=1.11) Those participants who faced significant social barriers before the COVID- … sighted peers. For example, when using human guide, the person who is visually impaired holds the guide's arm above …

March 2021 Comments on Guidance Needed to Reopen Schools

… of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education of students with visual impairments, including those with additional … to the survey while 1,028 professionals responded, of whom 710 were teachers of students with visual impairments … setting. Likewise, students should not be excluded from in-person school in the least restrictive environment if that …

Letters to the Editor

… Electronics Show 2017 Highlights . As a totally blind person now living independently, I am interested in getting … each means across multiple units, having well executed apps with "read it to me" and "tell me what to do" capabilities … each one. Sighted people also experience frustration interacting with multiple databases and interfaces, but for …
AccessWorld March 2017

An Evaluation of C-Desk for Media

… For those of us who cut our technological teeth on DOS-based computers and … to an audio book. However, for people who have not grown up with the aforementioned circumstances and/or for whom vision … happen sometimes, and Randyce Wechter loves to share her personal experience in the miracle arena. In 2004, after …
Deborah Kendrick
AccessWorld February 2011

Thank You for Attending #AFBLC22!

… AFB Leadership Conference. It was so wonderful to connect with almost 300 people in person. It was an inspiring, informative, and engaging time … thanks and congratulations to the 28 AFB Blind Leaders who joined us at the conference. You demonstrated …
Sylvia Stinson-Perez

Working with IT Staff

… "At first, [working with IT staff] was a little difficult because they were not … for the workplace and large data systems. Then I had one IT person who took initiative to do more research on the program and …

Conference Agenda

… actions to be undertaken that will result in people with visual impairments enhancing their knowledge, skills … Creating an Action Agenda for the Development of Leaders Who Are Blind The Aging and Vision Loss Track (sessions … assistive technology users, and improve opportunities for persons with visual impairments. 9:45 AM–10:00AM—Break 10:00 …

Choice Finds from the ATIA 2016 Conference Exhibit Hall

… did not mark the debut of revolutionary products for people with visual impairments, the annual event did feature an … emerge from the side of this unit that is just cool! If a person who does not read braille needs to make a label, he or she …
Jamie Pauls, Shelly Brisbin
AccessWorld March 2016

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