[blparent] totally accessible timer

Wed Sep 9 15:38:40 UTC 2009

So why didn't you say that on your birthday you'll be 150?  Maybe you wear 
your age well?
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 10:49 PM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] totally accessible timer

> I think I got mine at NFB convention 100 years ago.  I bet you did not 
> know
> I was that old. (lol) V
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Eva
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 2:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] totally accessible timer
>
> The timer I have has a double dot for 5 minutes, and a single dot for 2 
> and
> a half minutes. So if u needed 7 and a half minutes u would just set it to
> the single dot after the 5 minute mark. I am not positive where I got it
> from, since voc rehab bought it, but can ask tomorrow when they come for
> another reason.
>
> Eva
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 9:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] totally accessible timer
>
>
>> If you didn't have to have precisely two minutes but a guestimate, could
>> you do that?  That may be just the thing I'm looking for.  I think five
>> minutes at a time is what we are to build up to.
>> Barbara
>>
>> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom
>> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
>> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 5:19 PM
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] totally accessible timer
>>
>>> How accurate do you need it to be?  I have one of the old kind that you
>>> wind up, but it is marked every five minutes.  I got it at Beyond Sight,
>>> a store here in Denver for the visually impaired, but you can order
>>> things there from the Web.  If you want one that goes down to the 
>>> minute,
>
>>> you'll probably have to find a talking timer.
>>>
>>> Jo Elizabeth
>>>
>>> Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always 
>>> glorify
>
>>> the hunters.--African Proverb
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 2:08 PM
>>> To: "blparent" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>> Subject: [blparent] totally accessible timer
>>>
>>>> Have any of you found a totally accessible timer?  We have one of the
>>>> talking ones from our Aids and Appliances at our Department for the
>>>> Blind, but it doesn't say everything.
>>>> In the work, play, work play schedule for my children, we need to time
>>>> the play time.  Also I could set a time for a certain toy and keep
>>>> switching them.  Problem is, I don't have a good accessible timer.  The
>>>> one on my Pac Mate would work but would like something more 
>>>> kid-friendly
>
>>>> so I can set it when I'm right there by them.
>>>> Barbara
>>>>
>>>> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of
>>>> whom you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
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