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Clever 7 year old boy helps to bring Braille labels to grocery stores starting with Whole Foods Market in Thousand Oaks, CA & Newtonville, MA.
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Forry, who lost his eyesight to diabetes when he was 28, has been a movie critic since the 1990′s. But there’s renewed interest in his novel abilities and he’s been invited to be a guest on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Tuesday (7-19) night at midnight (EST). The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) and the National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (NAPVI) today announced the launch of an innovative social network for parents and caregivers of visually impaired children. FamilyFriends is the latest extension of AFB’s web community, FamilyConnect. For the last three years, visitors to www.familyconnect.org have connected with other families through message boards and have explored resources related to raising children with visual impairments. Today Braille Works Int., Inc. announced the launch of their premium service Accessible Document Solutions (ADS). ADS will enable insurers to provide insurance plan and benefit information in Braille, Large Print and Audio at a dramatically reduced cost. ADS also provides a low cost solution to the CMS Marketing Mandate (June 4, 2010) requiring companies to provide information to the visually impaired. The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the oldest and largest organization of blind people in the nation, announced today that Mark Anthony Riccobono, a blind executive who directs technology, research, and education programs for the organization, will be the first blind individual to drive a street vehicle in public. Mr. Riccobono will be behind the wheel of a Ford Escape hybrid equipped with nonvisual technology allowing a blind person to drive it independently as part of a historic demonstration scheduled during pre-race activities leading up to the Rolex 24 at the Daytona International Speedway. Blind Movie Critic Jay Forry gives his Blindside Review of No Strings Attached; staring Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman. Friends with benefits is the phrase for people who want to have sex with no attachments and it’s the basic premise for the romantic-comedy No Strings Attached. Each year, most people put a couple health-related items on our list of New Year’s resolutions. Eat less. Exercise more. Go and get that long overdo physical. What some people fail to realize is that eye care is another important part of caring for your body. Many people don’t seek care for their eyes until something is wrong, which can lead to loss of sight, eye disease and other serious problems. Doctors rocommend these five resolutions for 2010: Scientists have developed an eye implant that allowed three blind patients to see shapes and objects within days of treatment in a trial and say the device could become routine for some kinds of blindness in five years. Experts described the study results as phenomenal and said the device, developed by German researchers, could eventually change the lives of up to 200,000 people worldwide who suffer from blindness due to a degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Conducting Clinical Trials for Blindness and Non-24-Hour Sleep Wake Disorder. If you want to participate in the survey, please call toll-free 1-877-708-1936 Monday-Friday between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM ET. Congratulations! BrailleWorks Blog was determined to be one of the best blogs to exude overall brilliance in 2010. And so, it has received our 2010 Top 30 Vision Impaired Blogs Award. The ratings are compared, and awards are given out to blogs in the 99% percentile (meaning only the top 1% of blogs receive awards). |
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