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Improving and Enriching the Lives of Students with Visual Impairments


29th Early Connections Conference: Taking Care of Our Children…Taking Care of Ourselves.

 

April 28, 2012

 

This annual conference offers a unique opportunity for parents of children with visual impairments (birth-7) and professionals to come together to both learn new information and to network. This year’s topics include iPad applications, feeding issues, the expanded core curriculum, low vision aids and adaptations, orientation and mobility, dealing with stress, and cortical visual impairment.

 

The conference offers an opportunity for parent to parent networking around specific eye conditions, grandparent to grandparents and professional to professional support groups.

Lunch and childcare are provided.

 

For more information and to be put on a mailing list for the conference brochure, please contact Marguerite Tyrance at 617-972-7553.

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News from Kids Space-

The after school program for blind elementary and high school students takes place at the Tobin Community Center, Boston MA 3-6pm

  • Students can participate in: arts and crafts, theater, Tae Kwon Do, sports, producing a radio show, visits to museums, and computer training.      
  • Call for information about transportation.      

    • To register call-

Career exploration program

Beyond Stocks and Bonds: Career Options at Fidelity      

This program is open to middle, high school and college students who are blind and visually impaired.       

       

 Did you know that you could work in the library?      

 Did you know that you could work in catering?      

 Did you know that you could produce a video?      

 Did you know that you could design an accessible website?      

 Did you know that you could aid someone to invest his/her money?      

       

  

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Click here for Family Resource Fact Sheet

 
 
 
 
 

AFB has a Family Web Resource at  www.familyconnect.org   There are age-specific message boards for parents.

 

 

For RECREATION RESOURCES go to Recreation page link at bottom of page.


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From the AERNET LISTSERVE:  Resource on daily living skills videos that might be available, especially for sighted parents to watch. From the Lighthouse International: http://www.lighthouse.org/livingbetter/videos/

For resources on College Scholarships go to College Resource page link at bottom of page.To subscribe- send a blank email to ncdb_e-news-subscribe-request@tr.wou.edu  or for more information go to http://nationaldb.org

Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students With Disabilities
http://www.osepideasthatwork.org/toolkit/index.asp

Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students With Disabilities: Parents' Material http://www.osepideasthatwork.org/parentkit/index.asp




  Toy Guide for Differently-Abled Kids Guide is out.  Go to www.toysrus.com/differentlyabled to order a copy.

 Connecting Youth Who are Visually Impaired Around the World: The European Blind Union youth working group has set up an e-mail group to build a network between visually impaired youth all over the world. This group is primarily focused on blind and partially sighted youth between 15-35 years old but is open to others who are interested.  To join, send an empty message to ebu_youth-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

From Massachusetts Family Voices @ Federation for Children with Special Needs, visit www.massfamilyvoices.org , e-mail: MassFV@fcsn.org , or leave a message at 800-331-0688, ext. 210.

Blind Camp in Maine: Sponsored by the American Legion- Hosted by Camp Lawroweld, Weld, Maine. For more information about the camp, call Brenda Elliot at 617-670-3820


Camp Inter-Actions:  For information please contact:  Debbie Gross, Inter-Actions, 6 Chenell Drive, Suite 205, Concord, NH 03301

   campinfo@inter-actions.org  603-228-2803  www.inter-actions.org

 

 New Website Resource:  A support group for parents with kids with microphthalmia and/or anophthalmia -http://www.maparentsupport.com/

 

Hadley School for the Blind has a new on-line  course "Parenting Children with Multiple Disabilities" which presents skills and techniques for furthering development in a child with multiple disabilities. This course is available in large print and, online and is tuition-free. This course will help parents to meet their child's special learning needs. For more information go to www.hadley.edu or call 800-526-9909.

Newsletter Resource: Child Health Alert: A Survey of Current Developments Affecting Child Health Care go to www.childhealthalert.com  or call 781-239-1762.  (Cost $29.00 per year) This is an independent newsletter evaluating the latest developments that affects the health and safety of children.