[blparent] FW: Question for blind parents

Fri Nov 16 04:05:12 UTC 2012

There is a place here in Albuquerque that originally started out as a store
for the hearing impaired, but over the last few years expanded and began
selling blindness items.  The good thing about it, is is local and easy to
access.  The bad thing about it, it is over priced.
Also some of the things they get, they order from the same places I order
from and then they charge me the shipping cost which if I had ordered it
myself, I would have been charged the same thing but the item would have
been mailed directly to me.
Sometimes I think it is easier just to leave out the middle man.
I really wanted them to stay in business, but not at my expense of paying
higher prices.
Also they used to have 2 blind individuals on their board, but both have
resigned due to the sighted owners think that our ideas are less than
perfect.  
What I mean by that statement, these 2 blind peeps suggest itesm they should
have in their store and well, frankly they just don't order them.

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:20 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: Question for blind parents

I tend to agree with Lisamaria.  Stores that sell products specific to blind
people, or even mainstream products that are blind friendly, tend to charge
higher prices than most other retail outlets.  That being the case, I would
probably check out products at the blind friendly store, then search for
better prices elsewhere, in which case a resource page would do just as
well.

Jo Elizabeth

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kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lisamaria Martinez, NOMC
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 11:50 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: Question for blind parents

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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