[blparent] FW: Question for blind parents

[Lisamaria Martinez, NOMC]

I don't know about a store specifically geared toward blind parents but maybe a resource page or a wicky page with links to buy thoset products. Usually you can get bargain deals if you shop around online so I wouldn't want to be stuck with one place to buy everything just because it happens to be particularly accessible to blind parents. I have heard that a resource page exists somewhere  but I have yet to find one jeered toward us. 

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On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:30 PM, "mary jo hartle" <mjhartle23 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
>            Hi all,
> 
>            This is a question for my own curiosity that kind of came out of
> a recent parent's meeting we had at our state convention for the NFB.  As
> blind parents, there are a lot of tools and resources we use.  WE buy
> certain products (i.e., strollers we can pull behind us and use with our
> canes, baby carrying packs, bells or noise makers for our kids shoes,
> notched syringes for feeding our babies or administering medicine,
> accessible baby monitors, etc.) that help us to be more effective parents.
> Most of these are mainstream products which some of us have found to be more
> "blind friendly".  Sometimes though we hear about something we want to use
> and have to hunt it down or get it from a specific place.  For example, twin
> vision books, or car seats that have built in wheels which allow it to
> become a stroller.   So, I was thinking about resources I've used and time
> I've spent finding the right thing and had an idea.  Usually, we ask each
> other for recommendations and then go hunt down the product.  But, what if
> there was a kind of online store or one-stop shop for all things for blind
> parents?  I wanted to get some of your opinions as blind parents as to
> whether or not you would find such a shop useful.  Would you appreciate
> having a place where everything was designed for blind parents, or a place
> where "best-practice" mainstream products which have proven to be "blind
> friendly" could be found all in one place?  Or does such a place already
> exist and I've just not heard of it?  If such a place existed and its prices
> were comparable to other places, would you use it?  Why or why not?  What
> kinds of products would you like to see in such a place?  Also, most of the
> examples I gave were relevant to parents of young children, so what needs do
> you who are parents of older children find you have?  
> 
> I'd really like to hear your feedback on this idea-both good and bad.  Who
> knows?  Maybe something will come of it.  
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Mary Jo Hartle 
> 
> 
> 
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