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The Job Seeker's Toolkit

The Job Seeker's Toolkit is an accessible, self-paced, and free online course that helps users develop skills and tools that last a lifetime. The course covers self awareness, career exploration tools, the preliminary employment process, the interview...

Published Wed, Oct 27 2010 6:29 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Employment, Education, Educational aids, Teaching aids, Web sites, Blindness resources, Audio Information Services, Job searching

Unsubscribe From Any Email Newsletter

Unsubscribing from mailing lists manually is so frustrating and time-consuming that most people continuously delete the email messages when they come in. Unsubscribe.com is a service that will let you add a "unsubscribe" button to every email...

Published Wed, Oct 27 2010 5:15 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Internet, Safety, Web sites, Services, Email, Time management

Ham Casserole Recipes

Here's some yummy Casserole recipes for you to try! Ham Casserole Things you'll need: 1 cup sour cream 1 can mushroom soup 3 tablespoons milk 2 cups diced ham 1 can sliced mushrooms 1 (8 oz.) pkg. egg noodles, cooked Parmesan cheese Blend sour...

Published Mon, Oct 25 2010 3:56 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Family life, Recipes

World Maps by APH Help Children Who Are Blind See the World

by Kristie Smith-Armand, M.Ed, CTVI “Students Who Are Blind Are Seeing the World Through APH Materials ” “This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land...

Published Sun, Oct 24 2010 11:12 PM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Education, Educational aids, Teaching, Teaching aids, APH products, Braille, Tactile aids, Orientation and mobility

tennis for the Blind

Blind tennis originated in Japan when Myoshi Takei invented the sport in the 1980s before the first national tournament took place in 1990. Myoshi lost his sight through cancer when he was 18 months old. He is totally blind; and currently works as a masseur...

Published Fri, Oct 22 2010 3:30 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Directional tracking, APH products, Exercise, Sports

Create a Will Online

I must admit that this site is quite original. True to its name, it will let you create a legal will, just as easily as if being personally assisted by a lawyer. You can take care of specifying your funeral instructions, determining who will inherit your...

Published Thu, Oct 21 2010 5:53 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Household hints, Web sites, Services, Family life

With Vocaloids, Who Needs Singers?

I am always amazed at how advanced computer speech has become over the years. Remember those old speech devices in the 80s? That's nothing to the software I'm going to introduce you to now. VOCALOID is an entirely NEW kind of instrument, that...

Published Thu, Oct 21 2010 2:28 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Speech products, Technology, Audio, Computer software, Music, Art

Radio? Sure! Over Ten Thousand Stations

It's no secret that I love internet radio and streaming music over the web. I am still amazed that you can click a button and hear radio stations from the other side of the world. I've found another Windows only application that is screen reader...

Published Wed, Oct 20 2010 6:01 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Accessible media, Internet, Communication, Audio, Computer software, Streaming audio, Free stuff, Entertainment, Radio

Dog or Cane, You decide

by Romeo Edmead For some blind people, the decision to travel with a cane or guide dog comes very natural, leaving no room for debate in their minds. Then, there are those who make a choice, but the internal tug-of-war never grants them the absolute conviction...

Published Wed, Oct 20 2010 5:08 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Adjusting to blindness, Newly blind, Travel, Dog guides, Orientation and mobility, Canes

Visualizing What Someone Looks Like

by Donna J. Jodhan For most blind persons, this is a very difficult chore. However, if you were born with vision and then you have lost it later on in life, this is not too hard to do. Why? Because for someone who was born with vision, they have had the...

Published Wed, Oct 20 2010 1:46 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Adjusting to blindness, Interaction, Blindness, Newly blind, Relationships

Commercials That Do Not Tell All

by Donna J. Jodhan It has always been a standard practice for advertisers to create and produce commercials that are glitzy, flashy, and commercials that are packed with lots of visual effects. For after all, these are the ones that more often than not...

Published Wed, Oct 20 2010 1:41 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Adjusting to blindness, Advocacy, Low vision, Blindness, Newly blind, Television programs

On the Way to Literacy: Books that I like to Touch and that Touch Me!

by Kristie Smith-Armand, M.Ed, CTVI The American Printing House for the Blind (APH) has an audacious collection of books called “On the Way to Literacy” . “On the Way” is a brilliant ensemble of books for young children that include: Giggly-Wiggly Snickety...

Published Tue, Oct 19 2010 1:24 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Educational aids, Teaching, Teaching aids, APH products, Braille books, Reading, Parents, Tactile aids, Books, Children's publications, APH spotlight

Your Voice As Your Password On PayPal

I love PayPal! I've used the service to purchase things from Amazon, Wal-Mart, eBay and various "one sale a day" sites on the net. The one thing I sometimes get a little nervous about is when I forget my password. I have this fear of being...

Published Tue, Oct 19 2010 1:01 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Self-defense, Safety, Web sites, Banking, Services, Shopping

Clothing Care And Sewing Techniques

Carol Woodward, Homemaking Teacher at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Handicapped has presented an excellent summary of tips on Clothing Care & Sewing Techniques. Topics included are: Marking Clothes Threading A Needle Using Scissors Patterns...

Published Mon, Oct 18 2010 10:36 PM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Adjusting to blindness, Tutorials, Household hints, Newly blind, Clothes, Storage, Sewing

Qwitter: the Accessible Way to Access Twitter

From the Qwitter Readme file: Twitter is an insanely popular micro blogging service, that is, a service which allows you to post short little chunks of no more than 140 characters of text to the web at a time and have these updates, or tweets, as they...

Published Wed, Oct 13 2010 6:51 AM by Fred's Head from APH

Filed under: Accessibility, Audio, MP3, Computer software, Audio recording, Windows, Social media

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