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via The New York Times Published: September 12, 2009 IN high school I took the train from my home in Briarcliff Manor, north of New York, into Manhattan to take dance lessons with Syvilla Fort in a studio over a bar on 44th Street. I danced with the Alvin...
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by Jessica McFarlane via examiner.com Philadelphia Disability Examiner August 31, 5:53 PM Teaching students with physical disabilities takes some modification, but it isn't as difficult as some might believe. Inclusion in schools is necessary. Inclusion...
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August 17,2009 via ScienceDaily Research with tiny artificial muscles may yield a full-page active Braille system that can refresh automatically and come to life right beneath your fingertips. Yosi-Bar Cohen, a senior researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion...
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By Lindsey Tanner August 22, 2009 via The AP Like seeing-eye dogs for the blind, trained dogs are now being used to help autistic children deal with their disabilities. But some schools want to keep the animals out, and families are fighting back. Two...
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By Eric Engleman May 20, 2009 via TechFlash Amazon Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature, which reads electronic books aloud, is sparking more heated words. Amazon, if you recall, said it would allow authors and publishers to switch off text-to-speech...
Filed under: National Federation of the Blind, blind, print disabilities, visually impaired, Kindle 2, 15 million print-disabled Americans, discriminatory, copyright concerns, authors' guild, Reading Rights Coalition, disabling text to speech, read aloud feature, text to speech feature, Random House, equal access to books
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By Rachel Monahan and Tracy Connor Wednesday, March 25th 2009 via Daily News Matthew Brown, a blind special education teacher in Brooklyn, is the inspiration behind a student's essay lauding his daily determination and patience. A new Superman book...
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via Orlando Sentinel Jason Garcia Sentinel Staff Writer April 16, 2009 Walt Disney World has rolled out a first-of-its-kind service designed to let even blind guests "see" its famed attractions. Called "audio description," the service...
Filed under: blind, infrared sensors, visually impaired, deaf, World of Coca-Cola museum, hard of hearing, Hall at Patriot Place in Foxborough, amplified sound, Softeq Development Corp, DisneyWorld, captioning, Mass, audio description, remote, hand-held captions
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via abledbody April 29, 2009, 10:07 am Bookshare, the online library for people with print disabilities, today announced a new program that will significantly increase college students' access to digital books and textbooks. The Bookshare University...
Filed under: blind, print disabilities, people with disabilities, BookShare, K-12, Chafee Amendment, digital books, visually impaired, HarperCollins, Jim Fruchterman, copyright exemption, online library, Hachette Book Group, college students, Benetech, pool resources, post-secondary students, digital textbooks, equal educational experience, Scholastic, cost-effective approach for schools
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