[nfb-db] Introduction

[heather albright]

are you signed up with the NLS Library, they will loan you a player! 
However, we are now using the digital players!  You download the books off 
the internet and use a flash drive to put the books on, than you put the 
drive in the player, than the player plays the books!  Butthe NLS  still 
have the old players that play cassettes!  Just call your local state NLS 
and ask for one!  They require an eye report either from the doctor or your 
local DARS office stating your legally blind! Just wondering, Hadley does 
not use the Macduffy readers to teach braille?  We used them at the CCB when 
I went and I used them at the Louisiana Center for the step program!  I 
think the NFB Center has them!  I cant remember if they are listed as free 
literature or not!  They also have that low vission kit they give out too! 
I can check with the independennce market off the NFB's site to see! 
Heather
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From: April Brown
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Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:09 AM
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Hi Heather,

      No, I don't have a slate or stylus.  It's been almost a year since
this process started, and I'm still a long ways from getting the help I've
been trying to get for over a decade.  My vision finally got bad enough.  I
wrote to the Hadley representatives today to find out about what I need for
the Braille classes, as well as trying to determine if the cassette courses
are regular cassettes or 4 tracks.  I have a decade plus old regular
cassette player, and it didn't seem to work.

April Brown

Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.



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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:36:00 -0500
From: "heather albright" <kd5cbl at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [nfb-db] Introduction
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Well, that sounds bad!  Here in Texas, you can open a case six months after
moving here!  I know some states like Louisiana run out of money at june  or

something, they have to wait till the fall to get more money to run the
services!  Do you havea perkins brailler or a slate and stylus?  I know our
NLS program here in Texas used to lend the braillers out from the library!
Did you contact the local NFB chapter, it helps to have support to justify
what you need! You can get a free cane from the NFB.  I know hadley gives
out free abacuses when you take the course but I don't know if they give out

slates or not!  Heather
----- Original Message ----- 
From: April Brown
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Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [nfb-db] Introduction


Hi Heather,

     Thanks for answering.  I have started a case with the State Department
and asked for cane and technology training.  Of course, they claim they have
no money, and are turning almost everyone away.  And all who are unable to
work in a paid job, which is most people, unless they live in a city, due to
transportation issues.

     I do have Braille on my list of Hadley courses to take.

April Brown

Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.




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