[Blindtlk] FW: A Message from Jerry Munden at Prodigy

[David Andrews]

I have been asked to circulate the following:




>Prodigy® provides Accessible Diabetes Products
>and instruction material on how to Live Healthy with Blindness and Diabetes
>
>Prodigy®  continues to serve more of our vision 
>impaired friends with our NFB and AFB Access 
>Award winning Prodigy Voice® meter and test 
>strips, as well as the accessible insulin 
>delivery device; the Prodigy Count-a-dose™.
>In addition to our accessible products, Prodigy® 
>realizes that Education is Key for healthy 
>living, so we have added to our website:
>    * The NFB audio book, "Bridging the Gap, 
> Living with Blindness and Diabetes," authored 
> by 19 experts in the blindness and diabetes field.
>    * The new training “Tools and Techniques for 
> Managing Diabetes Non-Visually”.  Produced and 
> directed by renowned Blind Industries and 
> Services of Maryland (BISM). This training 
> demonstrates the skills for living well with 
> diabetes using non-visual techniques. 
> Instruction is presented by Lynn Baillif, MS, 
> RD, LDN, CDE, a blind diabetes educator, and 
> includes a demonstration on how to use the 
> Prodigy Voice® and Prodigy Count-a-dose™ products.
>    * The article due out in consumer diabetes 
> magazines this spring, “Adaptive Blood Glucose Monitoring with Vision Loss,”
>authored by Debra Sokol-McKay, MS, CVRT, CLVT, CDE, OTR/L, SCLV.
>    * Prodigy adds diabetes educator Dave Joffe, 
> BSPharm, CDE, CPT, Clinical Associate Professor 
> College of Pharmacy University of Florida, to the Prodigy® Team.
>    * Get ready . . . on June 9, 2011 at 12:00 
> pm EST, Hadley School for the Blind will host a 
> “Living Well with Diabetes” webinar.
>Key speakers include:
>·        Margaret E. Cleary, Rehabilitation Nurse Consultant
>·        Naomi Tuttle, Instructor The Hadley School for the Blind
>·        Jerry Munden, Vice President of 
>Business Development Prodigy Diabetes Care, LLC
>
>To sign up for a Seminar at Hadley:
>
>1) Go to <http://www.hadley.edu/>www.hadley.edu
>2) Click on "Seminars at Hadley"
>3) Click on "Registration" and enter required information
>4) You'll receive an email with your "password"
>5) On the day of the seminar, Login at “Registered Participants Login” with:
>-User name: first name & last name
>-Your Password
>6) You may have to download a plug-in before signing on
>7) When you enter, to use your mike, simply hold 
>down the control key and speak.
>
>Registration starts on the day the webinar is 
>advertised on the Hadley home page, usually 
>about 2 weeks before the webinar is presented. 
>If you do not wish to ask questions, you can 
>listen or text questions via the chat room. If 
>you can't attend, all webinars are archived and 
>can be found at 
><http://www.hadley.edu/>www.hadley.edu under the 
>heading: "Past Seminars." Anyone can download or 
>stream them. Hope to see you there!
>
>Prodigy® makes the helpful training aids 
>available to all Prodigy® customers, for free, 
>at 
><http://www.prodigymeter.com/>www.prodigymeter.com 
>in the Low Vision Center. Also, keep up-to-date 
>on Prodigy® Announcements: 
><http://www.prodigymeter.com/prodigymeters/index.php?page=articles&arg=2009&op=readArticle&id=9345&title=Low%20Vision-Blind%20Organization%20News%20Feed&main=9>Click 
>here and subscribe to our Low Vision and Blind Organization News Room!
>
>Prodigy® continues to work to provide new, 
>accessible products to fit the needs of all 
>diabetics, especially the blind and low vision. 
>Please be advised that the release dates for the 
>Prodigy IQ Pump™ and the Prodigy IQ Patch™ has 
>not been set. As soon as the dates are 
>announced, your organizations will be the first to know.
>
>
>       ** Use Prodigy® Products and Help Us to Help You **
>
>
>Please contact me at 704-285-6454 or Bernadette 
>Jacobs at 410-455-5311 
>(<mailto:bandbjacobs at verizon.net>bandbjacobs at verizon.net) 
>with any questions you may have.
>
>Here to Help,
>
>Jerry Munden (Living well with Type I for 30+ years ... and you can too!)
>Vice President of Business Development
>Prodigy Diabetes Care, LLC
>Phone: 704-285-6454   Fax: 704-285-6495
>Email: <mailto:jerrym at prodigymeter.com>jerrym at prodigymeter.com
>Web: <http://www.prodigymeter.com/>www.prodigymeter.com
>
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