Blind/Low Vision
Growing access to cultural events—arts, theatre, dance… is fantastic! From today’s Sunday Globe Arts section, WCOD’s own Kim Charlson is featured:
More ways for the blind, deaf to take in theater
By Joan Anderman
Globe Staff / December 13, 2009
Kim Charlson has seen “Fiddler on the Roof’’ more times than she can remember. Not seen, exactly – the [...]
At Perkins, high-tech is both future and now
$10m gift to help build new center
By Katie Johnston Chase, Globe Staff | October 20, 2009
Before Ashley Bernard got her new iPod Touch, the Perkins School for the Blind student could not use an MP3 player without help. But thanks in part to school officials, who encouraged Apple [...]
WHEN: two sessions -October 27th, 2009 9AM – 12PM and 1PM – 4PM
WHERE: PERKINS PRODUCTS at PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND THORNDIKE ROOM, HOWE BUILDING 175 NORTH BEACON STREET, WATERTOWN MA 02472
Learn about solutions for low vision
Discover the benefits of desktop, portable, and handheld video magnifiers, screen magnification software, products that read your computer screen [...]
Former Perkins student gets a statue in D.C.
Posted on October 7, 2009 by Meghann Ackerman
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Helen Keller, who attended Perkins School for the Blind, will be the first disabled person to have a statue in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall. [continued….]
Congratulations to fellow WCOD commissioner Kim Charlson! What a distinction for Perkins and the Watertown community!
Perkins Braille & Talking Book Library Named Network Library of the Year
On Friday, June 19, 2009, Perkins Braille & Talking Book Library was named 2008 Network Library of the Year at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. that featured remarks by [...]
From Kareem Dale, Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy at the White House:
MONDAY, JUNE 29TH, 2009 AT 3:32 PM
“Still Thriving and Excelling Long After Helen Keller”
Posted by Kareem Dale
Another day at the White House, another chance for President Obama to make history for people with disabilities. And, he did just that.
On Friday, June 26, 2009, President Barack Obama became one [...]
January 16, 2009
Press Contact:
Mary Watkins
617 300-3700
mary_watkins@wgbh.org
Media Access Group at WGBH To Provide Closed Captioning And Live Description for PBS‘s Inaugural Coverage
Described version of coverage will also stream live on the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) web site, http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/
Boston, MA — The Media Access Group at WGBH, a non-profit service of the WGBH [...]
contact: www.mass.gov/dcr/universal_access
A message from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
Director, Tom McCarthy
Good News Travels Far and Wide
This past year we have received numerous requests to talk about our universally accessible outdoor
recreation in Massachusetts state parks. From both inside the United States and as far away as the
European Union, park and [...]
From this week’s TAB:
Migliozzi: Ramp up the move to accessible currency
By Jeff Migliozzi, Commentary
Thu Jun 19, 2008, 08:23 AM EDT
WATERTOWN – A court in Washington, D.C., recently ruled that U.S. paper money discriminates against citizens who are blind because we cannot distinguish among the bills. The squawking about the expense and inconvenience of implementing accessible [...]
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