[Nfbf-l] Exciting Day!!

[Sherrill O'Brien]

Judy,
This is quite interesting.  No, I've not heard of this being done before
here in the U.S.  It's an innovative idea, though not very practical on a
store shelf with hundreds of other products.  And you don't have a problem
identifying bandAids as you do with medications.  Still, it's creative, and
also starts the public noticing the Braille on the box.   More Braille never
hurts!!

My daughter did bring me some fancy liquid soaps from France which were
labeled in Braille.  Ooh La La!  Another friend brought a Brailled box top
to show me, from a box of pills some one in his tour group had purchased
while on a trip to Italy.  It had the type of medication, and the dosage in
miligrams.
Sherrill


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Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 4:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Exciting Day!!


I wanted to share some information with all of you that Carol Massey, vice
president of our chapter and a braille reader, shared with me a few days
ago.  She was shopping in one of the WalMart stores here in town and had
Bandaids on her shopping list.  The Johnson & Johnson company labeled their
fabric bandaid box with braille on the box that says BANDAIDS.  This might
be old news to some of you,  but I had not heard of this on the general
market.  I have heard talk of braille labeling companies approaching
manufacturers to label products on the store shelf, but this is the first I
have heard about in North Florida.
Judy Hamilton
Gainesville Chapter
> [Original Message]
> From: Merry Schoch <merrys at verizon.net>
> To: NFB of Florida Listserv <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Denise Prophet <Denise at brailleworks.com>
> Date: 3/7/2009 10:18:16 AM
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] Exciting Day!!
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have been so stressed out studying to take the GRE test this Monday;
however, today I have set that to the side and am thrilled about what the
East Hillsborough chapter is doing.  We are participating in the Children's
Festival at USF and , of course, our focus is on braille.  We aren't doing
too much different from last year's event except for passing out balloons
to the kids.  Thanks to Braille Works we have balloons that on one side has
the Louis Braille coin, NFB, and Braille Readers are Leaders logo as well
as the Braille Works logo on the opposite side.  I love what their logo
states, "Making the World a More Readable Place".  How absolutely
empowering it will be for a blind child or one who has the potential of
going blind, to have the opportunity to learn braille as a child and have
the tools available to assist this child to be a "leader".
>
> I am please to be a part of today's events.  We will have displayed our
braille Scrabble game, NFB literature, and will have for the first time at
the event  "story times" thanks to our one and only State Braille campaign
coordinator, Sherrill O'Brien.  We will again distribute braille alphabet
cards with the child's (and sometimes adult's) name brailled on it.   Then
the thing I love the best and that is the interaction with the children.
>
> We have containers that are covered each with different items in them,
for example one of them has kithcen items such as a plate, cup, spoon,
fork, plastic fruit, box of cereal, box of triscuits, can of tuna, can of
veggies, hot cocoa mix (envelope), envelope of pop corn, etc.  The child is
given a scenario and then is told to pick out some items from the container
without using their sight.  The other containers have such items as
bathroom items, toys, clothes, school supplies, and more.  The kids
absolutely love the entire experience and now we can top it off with the
helium balloons.  What kid doesn't like balloon?
>
> I am so excited and what a gorgeous day to be out and about.  Just had to
share with all you our plans.
>
> Hope you all have a great day,
> Merry
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