Blind Abilities

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CareerConnect: You'll Get Connected, You will Learn, You'll Engage, You'll Grow - Resources for Navigating the Transition from High School to College and the Workplace. Apr 01, 2022

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Richard Rueda, Digital Content Manager at the American Printing House for the Blind's (APH ConnectCenter), and LisaMaria Martinez, Assistant to CareerConnect, join Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities Studio to talk about the opportunities available at the APH ConnectCenter. From the vast resources to the Job Seekers Toolkit and the Transition Hub, the CareerConnect experience has never been so ready for the future.

And as students transition from high school to college and the workplace, the ConnectCenter has something for everyone. From students to families, to teachers and counselors, the APH CareerConnect is just a click, tap away on the web at APHCareerConnect.org.

Find out how you can connect, learn, engage and grow.

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Lachi and Foundation.App Goes NFT over the Intersection of Art and Disabilities Mar 30, 2022

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Lachi is opening the door of opportunities for everyone to see the works of people with disabilities just as other works of art are being viewed. Join Lachi and Elijah Osborne, 2 artists, along with host Simon Bonenfant, as they talk about the intersection of art and disabilities. You can find out more about the Foundation at www.Foundation.app and keep up to date with Real advocacy and Real Music on Lachi's web site LachiMusic.com.

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Tech Abilities: And then there was 2. Netflix says Stop it! State IDs, Rugged Cases for Air Tags, Apple says Drain is OK and Intervals Timer is High Intensity and so is Callie's Pop Culture! Mar 29, 2022

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First of all, where is Serina? Hmm. Callie Gray and Jeff Thompson take over the Blind Abilities Studio to bring you another Tech Abilities show filled with news from around the World with that tech tidbit dose we all crave. Would you use a Memoji on Zoom? How's your feed on Instagram? You can change that now. Yup. You can check out the topics and links below, follow the timeline and use the Chapters feature if your podcast listening device provides the Chapter feature.

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Believe You Can Achieve: A Conversation with Camp Abilities Founder, Dr. Lauren Lieberman. In-Person Camp returns this Summer in June! Mar 28, 2022

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Camp Abilities founder, Dr. Lauren Lieberman, joins Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities Studio where Dr. Lieberman tells us about the opportunities happening around the world at Camp Abilities.

Dr. Lauren Lieberman founded the Brockport, New York Camp Abilities in 1996 and conducted the last 2 years of Camp virtually during the Pandemic.

With Lauren's studies in Health and Physical Education Undergrad and Masters, she learned that she was good at teaching sports Read More

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The New Technology Center at Lighthouse Guild is Open for Everybody! Mar 24, 2022

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Lighthouse Guild President and CEO, Dr. Calvin Roberts, and Chief Operating Officer, Paul Misiti, joins Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities Studio to share the great news about the new Technology Center at Lighthouse Guild. With the launch just behind them, Dr. Roberts and Paul explain why the Technology Center is so important to not only students and clients, but to developers as well.

The Technology Center is for everybody, to learn, to assess, to help fit the right assistive technology to a need and to better understand how an assistive technology works for and may not work for the needs of the Blind, Visually Impaired and DeafBlind community.

From the latest assistive technology for education, the home and to the tools that enhance one's everyday life, Lighthouse Guild's Technology Center is built for the future and for everybody.

You can learn more about Lighthouse Guild and the Technology Center on the web at www.LighthouseGuild.org.

Bringing shelter to the Ukrainian Blind refugees, Olga Mahler would not be anywhere else right now. Mar 13, 2022

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Olga Mahler joins Jeff Thompson from Warsaw, Poland where she and her husband are helping accommodate visually Blind and Visually Impaired refugees from Ukraine with shelter, assistance, a bed and working with a Swedish non-profit A Demand for Action.

Without knowing how she would be able to help, Olga and her family packed up some supplies and flew into Poland with determination and a will to help anyway she could...

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Discover NaviLens: The cutting-edge technology for the Visually Impaired that now navigates with 360 technology! Mar 10, 2022

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Our guest on Blind Abilities today is Javier Pita, CEO of NaviLens Corp.

Join Jeff and Pete as they delve deeply into the latest updates of the NaviLens App with Javier, and chat about many of the other useful features of this remarkable App which could have a profound impact on how we navigate both outdoors and indoors as well.

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Envision Glasses are at CSUN 2022! Check Them out and listen for breaking news coming out of CSUN from Team Envision and download the Envision AI App for iOS and Android. Mar 08, 2022

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Karthik Kannan joins Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities Studio in this informative episode about the Envision Glasses and the Envision AI App. Team Envision is proudly demonstrating the Envision Glasses at CSUN at booth 1011 and you can schedule an appointment and get your personal demonstration with hands-on with the Envision Glasses. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements that Team Envision are releasing at CSUN and throughout the Summer.

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Tech Abilities: Just a Peek Apple? Amazon Prime Price Hike, Accessible Comic Books, Uber Rating You, CSUN and More Tech Tidbits and News from a Blindness Perspective. Mar 07, 2022

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Serina Gilbert, Callie Gray and Jeff Thompson meet up in the Blind Abilities Studio to talk Tech Tidbits and news from around the Blindness community and some Pop Culture that enhances the daily grind.

Is Apple's Peek Performance just taking a peek at what performances are to come? Tricky little play on words there, Tim Cook.

Uber ratings that the drivers give you are now exposed. Check out the demo to see your ratings. Callie has a new iPad mini 6th Gen...

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With over 40 years of narrating Talking Books at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), Ray Foushee is still turning the pages. Mar 02, 2022

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Joining us on Blind Abilities is the owner of a voice that many of us will recognize from reading our favorite Talking Book selections from BARD or other NLS platforms: none other than Ray Foushee. Ray has been a Talking Book narrator at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), for almost forty years and has read more than 1000 titles in virtually every genre, ranging from True Crime and Mystery to Romance, Science Fiction thrillers and even nonfiction.

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