<div>--------- Forwarded message ---------<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Gaston, Pamela</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Pamela.Gaston@dhs.nj.gov">Pamela.Gaston@dhs.nj.gov</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 9:37 AM<br>Subject: LEAP Registration is Open<br><br></div>




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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Registration Open for Spring 2023 LEAP Technology Classes</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The NJ Department of Human Services Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CBVI) and the New Jersey State Library Talking Book and Braille Center is pleased to announce that registration has opened
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">LEAP is a series of free classes sponsored by The NJ Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired in partnership with the Talking Book and Braille Center and several public libraries. These classes help
 individuals 55 and older, who have a loss in vision, learn about accessibility tools that are available on iPads and iPhones. You do not have to be an active CBVI consumer to register for LEAP.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The next round of classes will include an iPads and iPhone course for beginners, and an iPads and iPhone course for intermediate users. iPads will be available for students to use in class, iPhones are not
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Classes are starting soon at the following locations</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Atlantic City Public Library – Richmond Avenue location</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Cherry Hill Public Library</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">East Brunswick Public Library</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Gloucester County Library System – Mullica Hill Branch</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Johnson Public Library in Hackensack</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Newark Public Library</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ocean County Library – Toms River</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Talking Book and Braille Center in Trenton</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">For more information, or to register, please contact TBBC Outreach Librarian Stephen Felle by phone at 800-792-8322 ext. 812 or by email at <a href="mailto:sfelle@njstatelib.org" target="_blank">sfelle@njstatelib.org</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Black",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><b>Pamela L. Gaston</b></span></div>
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 over the letter "N" with the finger pointed to read; to the right and directly under the Braille cells is NJCBVI in large, bold, blue block letters under which in all caps is New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired in gray letters.</span></i></span></span><br>
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