Announcements
- Message Boards for FamilyConnect Temporarily Unavailable
- AFB and APH Partner for a Future of No Limits for People Who Are Blind
- Join in National Conversations to Improve Special Education for Children and Youth with Vision Loss
- Actiview Announces Access for the Blind and Hard of Hearing to Watch Solo: A Star Wars Sto
- Spring 2018 DORS-BESB Newsletter For Families
- ReadBooks! Program
- Audio Recording and Transcript Available for "Mobilizing Advocacy to Improve Special Education for Children with CVI"
- Transcription Volunteers Needed for the Helen Keller Archive
- Microsoft Wants You to Be Part of the Accessibility User Research Collective (AURC)
- AccessNote Note-Taking App Being Deprecated
- "Leap into Life"- A new program from DORS-BESB to Engage Young Adults in Areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum in the Connecticut Community
- Fall 2017 DORS-BESB NEWSLETTER FOR FAMILIES
- Level Up Program
- The LightHouse of San Francisco Buys Building after $125 Million Bequest
- Biomedical-Development Firm Acquires Research Company Behind Eye Drops Designed to Cure Glaucoma
- Hadley School for the Blind Adds Two New Courses on Unified English Braille (UEB)
- Early intervention news: United States releases Policy Statement on Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Programs
- Five-Year, $1.25 Million Grant to Fund Assistive Technology Training for Teachers at Virginia Murray Sowell Center
- Dog Guide School Pairs First Dog Certified to Assist a Runner with Vision Loss
- Talking Scientific Calculator is Designed to Function in "Exactly the Same" Way as Inaccessible Version
- New Tactile Book: Maps of Texas
- Lavelle Fund for the Blind, Inc. Brother James Kearney Scholarship Program
- Engineering Summer Camp to Provide University Experience to Students with Visual Impairments
- Graduating Class Receives "Touchable Yearbook" of 3D Printed Busts of Classmates
- Smartphone app is designed to use 3D camera technology to detect overhead obstacles
- Get Your iBill Talking Banknote Identifier
- The Braille Challenge 2015 Is about to Begin in the United States and Canada
- Low vision pioneer Natalie Carter Barraga has died
- Call for papers for the JVIB 2016 Special Issue on Aging
- Free booklet introduces braille readers to Unified English Braille
- Richard L. Welsh, first president of the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind (AER), has died
- State agency and university collaborate to help students with visual impairments make the transition to higher education
- Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired to honor five individuals and one chapter at its international conference
- Music school graduate develops new tactile music notation
- Division on Visual Impairments agrees unanimously to change its name, pending Council for Exceptional Children approval
- Researchers discover that diabetes is no longer the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults in the U.K.
- Iowa plan to create regional centers to serve blind, deaf, and deafblind students is approved
- 10 Quick Tips for Modifying Your Classroom for a Totally Blind Student
- How to Modify Photographs of Familiar Objects and People for Students with Low Vision and/or Cortical Visual Impairment
- Pairing Objects and Songs-A Wonderful Way to Use Tangible Objects for Communication
- Using Everyday Objects in Unexpected Ways to Encourage Visual Attention and Exploration for Students Who Have Cortical Visual Impairment, Part 1
- Using Peer Mentors-Great Tips from a Recent Social Skills Workshop by Sharon Sacks
- Using Everyday Objects in Unexpected Ways to Encourage Visual Attention and Exploration with Students Who Have Low Vision or Cortical Visual Impairment
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