[nabs-l] Device Helps Blind See with Tongue

[Joshua Lester]

Brandon:
Ask your college, to allow you to do, what I'm doing, this October,
(Lord willing.)
Since October is Meet the Blind Month, I'm going to do a seminar on
blindness related stuff, at my college, showing what I do, and how I
do things.
I'd even show them the courtesy rules, that are mentioned.
Blessings, Joshua

On 5/24/12, Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com> wrote:
> If more colleges had TVI programs available, we could get more good TVIs
> that we need.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 23, 2012, at 3:53 PM, "Brandon Keith Biggs"
> <brandonboy13 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> True, the sighted people in engineering often want to develop things for
>> blind people to use, but very few of them know blind people to ask, or
>> know of any professionals on blind people that could answer their
>> questions. I think the root of the problem is that there aren’t enough of
>> us to go around and the professionals or people informed about blindness
>> are even more rare than we are.
>> I have often brought up to my college that they should start a TVI program
>> and they kind of chuckle and ask me where I'll find the teachers... But
>> there are so many students who are going in to special Ed that have heard
>> of being a teacher of the blind, but they know nothing about it. There is
>> one or two places in the special Ed program that talk about blindness
>> related subjects in passing, but that is often very small and obscure.
>> I wonder if there could be a project/class system  or something that could
>> be developed that a blind student could take to their college that teaches
>> people a little about what it's like working with blind people. That way
>> colleges may start taking notice of this important field and make it a
>> part of the class catalogue. The information just needs to get out there
>> to the public.
>> The best way for myths about blindness to be dispelled is for a TV show
>> with a blind person as the lead, acting as a blind person, to go on the
>> air. But idk of very many directors who would be able to find someone who
>> could write a good pilot script or direct the movie to show a blind person
>> as they really are.
>> Blindness is like Opera, people truly just don't know about it! (Les Miz
>> and Phantom are NOT OPERA and Dare devil and all those other blind movie
>> characters aren’t blind!
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Brandon Keith Biggs
>> -----Original Message----- From: Justin Salisbury
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:41 PM
>> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Device Helps Blind See with Tongue
>>
>> I think some of you are focusing on the technology and its possible uses.
>> What made me want to post this article were the philosophies on blindness
>> expressed in the article and news story.
>>
>> In no connection to the previous discussion of cancer on this thread, I
>> feel like the researchers think their discovery is analogous to finding a
>> cure for cancer when they come up with this technology.  They appear to me
>> to be trying to tackle tasks that any graduate of an NFB training center
>> can already handle.  If I don't know what is on the counter in front of
>> me, I reach out and touch it.  Let them research whatever they want to
>> research, but I think these people are marked by a profound
>> misunderstanding of blindness.
>>
>> I don't try to fix the fact that I'm blind (as if it's something wrong
>> with me); I try to fix the misunderstandings about blindness.
>>
>> Justin
>>
>> Justin M. Salisbury
>> Class of 2012
>> B.A. in Mathematics
>> East Carolina University
>> president at alumni.ecu.edu
>>
>> “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
>> change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”    —MARGARET
>> MEAD
>>
>>
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