Sentences with phrase «blind community»

Erik Weihenmayer hopes that the device will eventually benefit other members of the blind community, especially those who have never experienced vision.

Her involvement with the blind community began when visitors from the Perkins School for the Blind arrived for a show at the Charles Hayden Planetarium in Boston.

«I think this book will help the blind community to better understand the variety of objects in space,» explains the book's author, Noreen Grice, operations coordinator for the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Boston Museum of Science.

«I hope that the project's success will inspire others to become creative, because it is very gratifying for scientists to use part of their research grant for an education project, whether it is for the blind community or for middle schools,» Beck - Winchatz says.

This Harvard Graduate Invented a Device to Help Blind Children Learn Braille (BostInno) This Braille Learning Device Helps Curb the Illiteracy Crisis in the Blind Community (Mashable) Recent HGSE graduate Alex Tavares innovation helps blind children independently practice their literacy skills.

Whether it be advocating for state funding for deaf and blind students, expanding career and technical education opportunities for these students, or working to expand teacher preparation programs and licensure programs for educators who teach in the deaf and blind communities, Matthews has maintained her commitment to ensuring an equitable education for all of Kentucky's children.

One demographic that has been underserved during the shift toward eBooks is the blind community, but braille for eBooks is a technology that is not only in development, but is available on a newly designed smart watch.

From Amazon's perspective, the blind community is not seen as a significant market share.

Read this blog post from Mike Calvo on Why being listed on the front page of the iTunes Apps store is important for the blind community.

And they don't have to be members of the blind community to understand the situation.

While I applaud the blind community in their untiring efforts to fight for accessibility of consumer products, I feel there may be one angle to take with it that they may be missing.

These changes can not happen though without sincere and constructive feedback from the blind community.

«The blind community isn't big enough, or significant enough to matter.»

Let's not make the mistake of thinking that the blind community is only as large as the number of people who follow us on social networking sites.

Today Guide Dogs of America seeks new and better ways of helping the blind community.

LOL... only 5 % of the blind community use guide dogs.

If you are a dynamic and compassionate individual who is passionate about helping the blind community, we invite you to GDS.

... Obviously, the blind community isn't a huge market, but it's still a market... [and it] would be nice to see a game system reach out to us.»

San Diego Art Institute presents Feel the Noise, a collaborative exhibition between artists Francisco Eme, Margaret Noble, Aren Skalman, and members of the Blind Community Center of San Diego, opening July 15, 2017.

Through hands - on workshops taking place over the course of several months, San Diego and Tijuana based artists Francisco Eme, Aren Skalman, and Margaret Noble developed socially engaged projects designed specifically for the members of the Blind Community Center of San Diego.

«This is a victory not just for me personally but for the blind community of Canada,» said Jodhan, who is legally blind, of the decision.

Braille, the tactile writing system used by the blind, is not as widespread in the blind community as you might imagine — less than 10 percent of blind adults in the United States are able to read Braille and the number of Braille - literate individuals has been declining for decades as assistive technologies, audio books, and other substitutes replace Braille texts.

Shortly afterward, Newbold struck up a Reddit conversation with a blind Bitcoin enthusiast who expressed frustration with the lack of support for the blind community from Bitcoin software developers.