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[Marsha Drenth]

April,
Welcome to the list. I am marsha. I live in PA. I am totally blind with a severe hearing loss. I am a student at university but am taking off a year to attend training at the Hellen keller national center in Long Island. 
It wasn't a desicion i came to easily, but the advantage to getting training from there is that they are espically versed on training for the deafblind, the hard of hearing and the visually impaired. many times deafblind persons find that their state voc rehab is not equiped to train, or even know what they need, or how to get it. The Helen keller center is a one of kind place. I went on the tour, and saw for myself the impact that it has on its students. 
So you might check into getting training from there. Unlike you haven't gotten much from your state thus far, Helen keller might be just what your looking for. 
I would also suggest contacting the NFB state president in KY. I think its Cathy Jackson, she is awesome, can point you in the right direction. 



Marsha drenth  
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On Sep 16, 2013, at 6:04 AM, "April Brown" <aprilbrownwrite at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
>     I am a writer who is a visual learner, who has recently been diagnoses
> legally blind.  I also wearing a hearing, and have difficulty comprehending
> vocal words, especially on  low vision days.  I've always learned by sight.
> Now, that's becoming difficult.
> 
>      Until my recent vision loss, I always used closed captioned on tv,
> when it was available, so I could understand what was being said.
> 
>     I am trying to find an affordable solution for writing and editing for
> screen reading and dictation, preferably combined.  Dragon has crashed my
> computer a hundred times, and I've had to reformat all three I've tried it
> on multiple times.  Right now, I'm using the Microsoft speech recognition,
> and the NVDIA program part of the time, and not very successfully.
> 
>      I have the cassettes to start the listening course from Hadley.  (Last
> week was my 40th birthday week vacation, so I planned ahead to have them
> arrive so I could start them tomorrow.)
> 
>     Any other suggestions or ideas that may help me in the adjusting
> process?
> 
> Thanks,
> April Brown
> 
> Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind.
> 
> 
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