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Hello Everyone. My name is Stephen Sullivan and I am a computer instructor at the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AIDB), Regional Center in Mobile, Alabama. I primarily work with students who have what I like to call nonstandard eyesight (traditionally known as low vision or blindness) and I have nonstandard eyesight myself.

I thought blogging would be a good way to get my students more active on the computer and familiar with all the great tools that are free on the web. Blogging is also a great way to communicate and build community. Best of all for people with vision loss it does not require any transportation, except for a computer.

Each week there will be a new topic posted related to technology, education, employment, living with blindness, or some current event of interest to the Out of Sight Community. Come and visit often and be sure and join in on the conversation.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Its a Good Time to be Vision Impaired

I realize the title of this post may sound a little crazy to some but let me explain. Although being vision impaired is never desirable today's digital technologies give those of us who are vision impaired the best opportunity we have ever had to be able to compete with our sighted peers. I use the term "compete" in the sense of equal opportunities to go to school, gain and maintain employment, and generally participate in mainstream society. I have posted a new blog called Technology Round-up, a list of links and information regarding technology for people who are blind or vision impaired.

Click Here to visit technology Roundup. After you have viewed the blog come back to this post and leave me a comment about the Technology Round-up blog. Let me know if you found the information useful and any information you think I should include that you did not see on the blog.
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3 comments:

  1. UnknownApril 12, 2010 at 1:14 PM

    Hi my name is eddie alston. technology the way i see it now days technology is the way of the world every thing is done by computers man will be extinet.Ther will be computers programming other computers.i feelthat technology will be the down fallof the world. computers to buld Bombs,Guns, Destroyer ships and air crafts. Man will nolonger be needed.

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  2. UnknownApril 12, 2010 at 1:49 PM

    I think that the government should give free internet to all those that are considered to be handicapped. That way people that don't know about programs like this one will be able to know about how they can continue to learn. Technology is so advance now and there is so much to learn it is so exciting . This is a challenge for me but I will not be defeated. I like it also because I can see what I am doing and that has made it so much easier to learn. I enjoy using Google and others.






    or hearing loss.

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  3. rita vinsonApril 12, 2010 at 1:53 PM

    I am very thankful to be vision impaired at a time like this. Because I have some sight I have some technolegy to help enlarge things for me. I have a cane to help me walk, I have a talking watch to tell me the time amen. I have a talking calculator to help me add. I ride a handicapped bus to take me where I have to go, and I also have a talking cell phone. Oh before I forget I also go to a support group for vision impaired once a month. I am very happy I have excepted the changes in my life. I do what I have to do,I am not just a blind woman, I am a woman that happen to be leagly blind Rita Vinson

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