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<a href="http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/2011/09/seeing-in-distance.html">"Seeing" in the Distance</a>
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There is a quick easy and fairly inexpensive way to adapt a child's inability to see in the distance in the classroom.<br>
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For the Low vision child: Most classrooms today have a document camera
or computer hooked to a projector that projects the teacher's work to
the front of the room. Where it is completely inaccessible to children
with visual impairments. With a simple VGA splitter, you can hook any
size of monitor to that document camera and the world in front of the
classroom is immediately brought to the child. In a pinch where
something was not enlarged, the document camera can be turned into a
CCTV (closed circuit TV) where the paper can be placed under the camera
and immediately projected onto the child's monitor.<br>
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For the completely blind, I take a different approach. As teachers use
their computer and projector to project to the front of the room, I have
installed JAWS talking software on the teacher's computer. Then I hook
the Braille Note to the computer or any other adapted laptop. With
today's Bluetooth option, the cable can be eliminated now. However, if
you have an older Braille Note that needs a cable, the information that
is projected to the front of the room, immediately goes to the Braille
Note and the child can read from the display while listening to the
teacher. Now the blind child can "see" in the distance too.<div> </div><div><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Brush Script MT';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:18pt;"><font color="#4040ff"> Denise </font></span></div><div><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Brush Script MT';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:18pt;"></span> </div><div>Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. <br>Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired<br>TechVision-Independent Contractor</div><div>Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training</div><div>509-674-1853 <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:deniserob@gmail.com"> deniserob@gmail.com</a></div><div> </div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/">http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/</a></div><div> </div></div></body></html>