Ba Teen Cast

{Music Intro} The following podcast was produced for customers of Minnesota State Services for the Blind. You can find out more about State Services and what they can offer at www.MNSSB.com {Music} Braille is not dead. (So Stop Trying To Kill It) A post by Megan. You can follow Megan’s Blog at WheresYourDog.WordPress.com {Music} Braille Is Not Dead (So Stop Trying To Kill It) I’ve heard the case against braille books, and I agree with all of it. Braille books are bulky, because the braille alphabet is oversized compared to print letters. They aren’t terribly common, as the market for them is so small. They are incredibly expensive to make, so most of us don’t own our own books. We usually end up borrowing them from special libraries and resource centres. Braille is inconvenient: all throughout junior high and high school, my backpack weighed somewhere in the neighbourhood of 25 pounds, because it was crammed full of volumes and volumes of braille. If I also had to carry my laptop case, braill

The following podcast was created for customers of the Minnesota State Services for the Blind. more information on State Services and what they have to offer can be found at www.MNSSB.org {Music Intro} I Am Not My Dog, A blog post by Holly and you can follow her posts at CatchTheseWords.com I Am Not My Dog CatchTheseWords.com Having a dog can be a good thing. For some, it is a smoother, more effective way of travel. For others the cane is by far the better option. Both are perfectly valid experiences, what works for one blind person doesn’t for another. I have come to loathe the perception that my life must have been awful before getting Isla. I think the media is partly responsible for this, feeding the mentality that guide dogs are always best. Cane users are seen as incompetent, or desperately lonely blind people who must be longing for a dog. That quite simply isn’t true. And just because a person might find guide dog travel better for them doesn’t mean they had no life before getting a dog.

Lori and Pete interview Megan Bening, a college student attending Minnesota State studying IT. Megan is Blind/Visually impaired and talks about what works for her as she breaks down the barricades that try to block her from the goals she has set for herself. From the tools she utilizes on a daily basis to the joys of life that puts her out side the typical “comfort zone” that society has expected her to be in, Megan forges forward self-determining and blazing a new path for those coming up behind her. Quite a role model for Transition aged students.

Pete demonstrates the #Audio #Messenger and the settings that let you decide on how long the Audio files stay on your #iPhone #Voiceover #iPhone

Pete demonstrates the Messages Function Native to the #iPhone

Pete demonstrates how he utilizes the #AudioBoom App using #Voiceover on the #IOS platform #iPhone

An example on how I use the Free @Audioboom app using #Voiceover on the #iPhone

The following podcast was recorded for use by customers of Minnesota’s State Services for the Blind. You can get more information about State Services for the Blind and the services it offers by going to www (dot) mnssb (dot) org. (music) Experiences For Life, from Future Reflections, a publication of the National Federation of the Blind by Jon Gabry Hello. My name is Jon Gabry. I grew up deaf and blind. I can now see things that are a little bit close up. My parents really encouraged me. I went to school, and it was an hour bus ride to and from. I went to the School for the Deaf in New Jersey. My parents knew how to make a plan for my life. They gave me experiences to learn and prepare for my future. They knew I needed to start building a résumé so that I could show people what I was interested in and what I wanted to participate in. All these experiences helped me make good decisions for the future. In ninth grade I started learning in the transition area. This was a good time to experience many new th

The following podcast was recorded for use by customers of Minnesota’s State Services for the Blind. You can get more information about State Services for the Blind and the services it offers by going to www (dot) mnssb (dot) org. (music) How Daring to Believe Changed My Life and How It Can Change Yours, from Future Reflections, a publication of the National Federation of the Blind by Mary Fernandez Reprinted from the Braille Monitor, Volume 57, Number 1, January 2014 I moved around the kitchen, using a measuring cup for the first time to make ice cream. I argued with my peers that we needed to put some caramel in our chocolate ice cream. In a sly move I sneaked up to the ice cream maker and poured in some caramel. When they all tasted it, they said, "Someone put caramel in here," and unknowingly proclaimed my brilliance by repeatedly complimenting the texture of the ice cream. Since we were all under sleepshades during the cooking activity, no one had solid proof that I had been the miscreant who dared

The following podcast was recorded for use by customers of Minnesota’s State Services for the Blind. You can get more information about State Services for the Blind and the services it offers by going to www (dot) mnssb (dot) org. (music) To Serve My Country, from Future Reflections, a publication of the National Federation of the Blind by Evelyn Valdez I want to thank Carol Castellano for inviting me to speak today. I really appreciate my New Jersey family that has always believed in me! My story is a bit different from some, so I want to give you some background on how I came into the blindness game. I did not grow up as a blind child. When I became blind at seventeen, and I'd hear other blind students talk about the camps they went to where they had lots of friends, I couldn't relate. I had never gone to those camps, and I felt left out. But I brought into play some other experiences. I think my parents were a bit shocked when I started to go blind. They didn't know how to react. I know I had a littl

The following podcast was recorded for use by customers of Minnesota’s State Services for the Blind. You can get more information about State Services for the Blind and the services it offers by going to www (dot) mnssb (dot) org. (music) Playing with Knives, from Future Reflections, a publication of the National Federation of the Blind by Laura Martinez I was born in the city of Salvatierra in central Mexico. When I was very young I was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a form of cancer that attacks the retinas. After extensive treatments, I was free from cancer but had become totally blind. In Salvatierra, as in most of Mexico, there was no program to mainstream blind students. My only option was to attend the residential school for the blind in Mexico City. My parents didn't want to send me so far from home, and I didn't want to go to a boarding school. To me it sounded a lot like the hospital, and I'd had too much of hospitals already! Since I was home all day, I spent a lot of time with my mother. Alt

BA Teen Cast is produced by Radio Talking Book Network and is part of the State Services for the Blind. and is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. For complete programing you can find Radio Talking Book on the web at Http://www.mnssb.org/rtb To inquire about services from State Services for the Blind contact us at Http://www.mnssb.org

BA Teen Cast is produced by Radio Talking Book Network and is part of the State Services for the Blind. and is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. For complete programing you can find Radio Talking Book on the web at Http://www.mnssb.org/rtb To inquire about services from State Services for the Blind contact us at Http://www.mnssb.org

BA Teen Cast is produced by Radio Talking Book Network and is part of the State Services for the Blind. and is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. For complete programing you can find Radio Talking Book on the web at Http://www.mnssb.org/rtb To inquire about services from State Services for the Blind contact us at Http://www.mnssb.org

BA Teen Cast is produced by Radio Talking Book Network and is part of the State Services for the Blind. and is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. For complete programing you can find Radio Talking Book on the web at Http://www.mnssb.org/rtb To inquire about services from State Services for the Blind contact us at Http://www.mnssb.org

BA Teen Cast is produced by Radio Talking Book Network and is part of the State Services for the Blind. and is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. For complete programing you can find Radio Talking Book on the web at Http://www.mnssb.org/rtb To inquire about services from State Services for the Blind contact us at Http://www.mnssb.org

BA Teen Cast is produced by Radio Talking Book Network and is part of the State Services for the Blind. and is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. For complete programing you can find Radio Talking Book on the web at Http://www.mnssb.org/rtb To inquire about services from State Services for the Blind contact us at Http://www.mnssb.org

BA Teen Cast is produced by Radio Talking Book Network and is part of the State Services for the Blind. and is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. For complete programing you can find Radio Talking Book on the web at Http://www.mnssb.org/rtb To inquire about services from State Services for the Blind contact us at Http://www.mnssb.org

BA Teen Cast is produced by Radio Talking Book Network and is part of the State Services for the Blind. and is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. For complete programing you can find Radio Talking Book on the web at Http://www.mnssb.org/rtb To inquire about services from State Services for the Blind contact us at Http://www.mnssb.org

BA Teen Cast is produced by Radio Talking Book Network and is part of the State Services for the Blind. and is recorded for people who are blind or have reading disabilities. For complete programing you can find Radio Talking Book on the web at Http://www.mnssb.org/rtb To inquire about services from State Services for the Blind contact us at Http://www.mnssb.org