Articles written by Andrew Leibs
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Scuba Diving for the Disabled
Since 1981, the Handicapped Scuba Association has used the sport of scuba diving to improve the physical and social well being of people with disabilities.
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USABA Ski Camps, Webinar for the Blind
The United States Association of Blind Athletes offers two opportunities for blind or visually impaired skiers seeking to improve their skills or to learn to race.
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Accessible Sailing Program for Disabled
Access to Sailing provides educational and therapeutic sailing programs to empower disabled and disadvantaged youth and adults to achieve their full potential.
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Bay Area Outreach & Recreation Program
Bay Area Outreach & Recreation improves the health, independence, and social integration of persons with disabilities through accessible sports and recreation programs.
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Accessible Medical Equipment
An L.A. Care Health Plan project to place accessible examination tables and scales in clinics shows accommodating disabled patients improves preventative care for all.
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Braille Holiday Cards, Chocolate
A Christmas tree embossed on a greeting card or a braille message on a milk chocolate bar offer a perfect way to wish a blind or visually impaired person happy holidays.
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Pact Aims to Reduce Cost of Braille Displays
In an historic signing, the National Braille Press (NBP) and China Braille Press (CBP) have agreed to pool expertise and resources to augment braille literacy worldwide.
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Travel Assistance Device
New technology aims to reduce paratransit costs and increase mobility for disabled persons by making trips on fixed-route transit systems easier to plan and navigate.
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Enhance Mobility With Balance Basics DVD
Balance Basics and Beyond is a 53-minute DVD designed to promote overall health by teaching exercise strategies to improve one's balance.
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Teaching Sports to Blind Children
In this interview, Camp Abilities founder Lauren Lieberman reflects on the far-reaching benefits inclusion in sports creates for visually impaired students.
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Jubilee Sailing Trust
Aboard the Lord Nelson and the Tenacious, disabled and able-bodied sail side by side on the world's only two square-rigged tall ships designed and built for the disabled.
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BrainPort Vision Device
BrainPort collects visual data using a tiny, glasses-mounted video camera, translating images into electrical patterns on the surface of the tongue.
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Blind Everest Climber Inspires Students
For Weihenmayer, a personal vision of how we see ourselves serving others and impacting the world is life's loftiest adventure-one that, for him, is fueled by adversity.
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Web Radio Resources for the Blind
The Internet offers blind persons intuitive technology to explore and share interests in music, news, Old Time Radio, and what's happening in the disability community.
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Accessibility Aids from Tetra Society
The Tetra Society of North America is a nonprofit that recruits skilled volunteers to create customized assistive devices for persons with physical disabilities.
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How to Become a Braille Transcriber
If one loves books and reading, is computer savvy, and wants to promote literacy, a well-paid career transcribing contracted braille is just 24 weekly classes away.
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Spinning is Accessible Low-Vision Workout
In spinning, you pedal to the pulse of music and adjust resistance on a low-tech, stationary bike, which makes it an ideal activity for the blind and visually impaired.
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Services for Disabled College Students
In this interview, Kathy McGillivray, Director of Disability Services at Bethel University, puts the concept of accessibility in context for disabled college students.
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Is My House Making My Kid Sick?
When Lindsey Carmichael's son developed asthma, she studied the foods and houseful products she purchased. Her shocking discoveries inspired Greening Your Family.
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Llama Trek for Blind in Colorado
Colorado Ski For Light's annual llama trek teams blind and visually impaired with sighted guides for a challenging, boundary-breaking journey into the Rawah Wilderness.
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Training Disabled Shooters
Vanessa Warner of the National Rifle Association talks about two of her passions: guns and introducing the disabled to recreational and competitive shooting.
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Disabled Shooting Resources
The National Rifle Association offers information on adaptive equipment and techniques to make hunting and gun sports accessible to a broad range of disabilities.
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Diane Croft Wins NFB Bolotin Award
The National Federation of the Blind honored Diane Croft with a $10,000 Bolotin Award for her 27 years of making relevant and popular books available in braille.
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Torball
Despite being supplanted by Goalball as a Paralympic event, the game of Torball, developed in Germany in the 1960s, rolls on.
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Cerebral Palsy No Barrier to Art
Keplinger's struggle for self-expression, captured in the Oscar-winning documentary, King Gimp and a Super Bowl ad, has shaped his life and the world of accessible art.
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Accessible Art Resources
The art world is reaching out to persons with disabilities, offering accessible museum exhibits, artists residencies - even tickets and transportation to cultural events.
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USABA Disabled Cycling Camp
In September, the United States Association of Blind Athletes hosts "Learn To Race," a week-long camp to foster recreational and competitive cycling among the disabled.
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Bowling for the Blind
Few sports have proven as adaptable as tenpin bowling, whose tournaments for the blind draw as many as 1,500 participants from over 125 leagues throughout the US.
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Star Island Stopover Returns
Few New England day trips are as perfect as the one-hour cruise from Portsmouth, NH to Star Island to explore or drink tea on the wide porch of the Oceanic Hotel.
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Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation
The NBP hopes its $20,000 annual award inspires new products and approaches that make learning, using, and teaching braille easier and more effective for blind readers.
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Stampede for VIPS, Louisville, Kentucky
The Stampede showcases elite blind runners and raises awareness of and funds for advocacy and outreach programs run by Visually Impaired Preschool Services of Louisville.
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Adaptive Tennis Serves Many Disabilities
Despite the sport's physical demands, tennis is popular and played at every level by persons with a wide range of physical and sensory disabilities.
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Hadley Evolves into E-Learning Leader
The Internet has leveled many playing fields for the visually impaired, especially in the availability of online courses, for which Hadley is setting the standard.
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Hadley School's Online Courses
The Hadley School for the Blind's e-Hadley classes cover a wide range of topics, including business writing, finding employment, and effective parenting of a blind child.
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Career Resources for the Blind
Unemployment among the blind is over 70 percent, but technology is helping organizations offer training and peer support to blind and visually impaired jobseekers.
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Bookshare Offers Accessible Books
Bookshare readers download books as compressed, encrypted files that can be read with assistive technology such as a screen readers or refreshable braille display.
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Free Hadley Course for Blind Travelers
"On the Road Again: Travel Planning, Techniques, and Tips" is the latest e-Hadley distance learning class, which the blind and visually impaired can take for free.
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New Audible Basketball for the Blind
The Hadley School for the Blind has commissioned a new beeping basketball designed to make the game more accessible to blind and visually impaired players.
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Plustek BookReader V100
With the push of a button, the Plustek BookReader V100 converts printed text into lifelike speech that blind and visually impaired readers can store as MP3 or WAV files.
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Oral Hull Summer Camps for the Blind
The Oral Hull Foundation will hold four summer camps at its secluded 23-acre retreat center in the woods near Sandy, Oregon.
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Camp Yorktown Bay
Nestled on the shores of Lake Ouachita (Mountain Pine, AR), Camp Yorktown Bay offers an ideal setting for religious instruction and traditional camping fun and adventure.
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Vision 5K Road Race for the Blind
Top blind and visually impaired runners from around the world head to Boston in June 2009 for the Vision 5K, one of the few races dedicated to disabled athletes.
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Profile of New England Disabled Sports
New England Disabled Sports is a nonprofit whose mission is to enhance the quality of life of individuals with disabilities through outdoor recreation.
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Achilles International Profile
Achilles International is a worldwide organization that encourages persons with disabilities to take up running and participate in races with the general public.
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NARHA Equine Therapy Programs
Each year, the North American Riding Association for the Handicapped provides therapeutic riding to more than 42,000 disabled persons in the United States and Canada.
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Colonial America Sports Timeline
North America sports and games combine many influences, including European pastimes and competitions, rites, rituals of Native Americans and Africans brought as slaves.
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USA's Leaps of Faith Disabled Water Ski Club
Champion water ski jumper Joel Zeisler has introduced thousands of persons with disabilities to both recreational and competitive waterskiing in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
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High-Tech Living Aids for the Blind
Whether it's accessible cell phones or MP3 players, or knowing when to pack an umbrella, technology continues to make life easier and safer for blind travelers.
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Art, Writing Contests for the Blind
The National Federation of the Blind and the American Printing House for the Blind offer a number of competitive opportunities for aspiring blind artists and writers.
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Touring the Isles of Shoals
No book, lecture, or walking trail approaches the historic depths and drama one sees on a two-hour M/V Thomas Laighton cruise from Portsmouth, NH to the Isles of Shoals.
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Cartoons to Empower Type-I Diabetics
In this interview, Haidee Merritt discuses her collection One Lump or Two?, in which she seeks to turn diabetes' denial and debilitation into life-affirming irreverence.
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New Low-Vision Reading Resources
The Internet continues to level the playing field for blind and low-vision students, offering tools to augment classroom reading and make learning more accessible.
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AEB 2009 Multimodal Art Conference
Art Beyond Sight and the Metropolitan Museum of Art will convene in October to discuss ways to teach and exhibit art more effectively to those with sensory disabilities.
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Accessible Recreation in Breckenridge, CO
Since 1976, Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center recreation programs have shown the disabled that they have the inner strength to change their lives.
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Paralympic Sports Camp For US Vets
Next month, 30 disabled U.S. veterans will travel to New Hampshire's White Mountains to explore winter sports and recreation opportunities at a US Paralympic sports camp.
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Obama Film Free, Accessible Online
Deaf and blind viewers can celebrate Black History Month watching "Barack Obama: The Power of Change" free of charge in two accessible formats.
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AFB Assistive Technology Resources
The American Foundation for the Blind offers teachers a systematic approach to evaluate which technologies best address the needs of blind and visually impaired students.
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If You're Happy and You Know It
Jordan's cartoons began as therapy and have led to a blog that has half a million readers, the collection, If You're Happy and You Know It, and a graphic novel.
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Parenting a Noonan Syndrome Child
Anne de Groot knew something was wrong, but doctors dismissed her son's symptoms and her concerns till genetic testing vindicated her suspicion, and changed her life.
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2009 Camps for Blind Youth, Adults
Throughout North America, choices abound for children and families seeking a traditional camp experience that is accessible to the blind. Many programs are free.
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Reading & Radio Resource
Reading & Radio Resource enriches the lives of children and adults who, because of visual, physical, or learning limitations, cannot read for themselves.
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NFB Youth Slam 2009
Assistive technology, specialized teaching techniques, and mentors enable blind and low-vision students to explore the once-inaccessible fields of math and science.
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The Church of 80% Sincerity
Speaker and humorist Roche brings the bitter wit and wisdom of his one-man show to retrace his journey from disfiguring illusions to understanding and self-acceptance.
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American Sign Language Resources
Time to Sign's national team of sign language professionals provide products, workshops, and strategies for teaching ASL through the use of songs, games, and activities.
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Is the Word Albino Derogatory?
Despite society's turn towards political correctness, the word "albino" can seem like a vestige of pre-"person-first" labeling, which makes some angry, others accepting.
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Mind's Eye Travel 2009 Schedule
Mind's Eye Travel wants to expand independence among the blind by providing stress-free, guided tours to memorable destinations such as the Maine Coast and New Mexico.
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Winter X Games 13 Mono Skier X
Adaptive skiing takes center stage in the ESPN Winter X Games' Mono Skier X, which pits 12 skiers in a battle that fuses Alpine racing and motocross.
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Blind Education Roundup
In this month of Louis Braille's bicentennial, the National Braille Press takes its 10-panel exhibit on a tour across the United States.
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APH Products Promote Play, Fitness
The American Printing House for the Blind has released two new educational aids, a storybook on inclusion in play, and a Jump Rope kit to encourage fun and fitness.
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AbilityPLUS Recreation Profile
Since 1997, AbilityPLUS has sought to make year-round recreation, such as snow sports and cycling, accessible to those with physical, emotional, and sensory disabilities.
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Moving Stories Off the Page
Lori Hardacker of Rye, New Hampshire is developing an elementary school enrichment program to get stories off the page and kids out of their sedentary cyber-ruts.
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Hand Gestures Aid Language Learning
Researchers at Colgate University find that hand gestures are semantically linked with speech when learning new words, especially those in a foreign language.
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AccessAtLast Travel Profile
AccessAtLast.com is a one-stop shop for accessible bookings (it guarantees level-access showers) to vacation home and apartment rentals from England to Indonesia.
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Accessible Tours, Adventures for 2009
Not so long ago, wheelchair users couldn't book a dinner reservation. Now, there are few places they can't go, and tour operators eager to take them around the world.
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Breast Cancer Booklet in Braille
National Braille Press promotions lead this month's roundup of media free and accessible to blind consumers.
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A Camp Wapanacki Tribute Book
Seek the Son Ministries, Inc., is producing a tribute book about Camp Wapanacki, which, for 52 years, welcomed blind and visually impaired youth to the Vermont woods.
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Guggenheim Offers Accessible Tours
New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum offers monthly programs for the disabled that feature tours, interactive discussions, and a private reception.
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A Profile of Full Radius Dance
Since the mid-1980s, the graceful movements of ballet have been redefined and now enfold those with differing abilities, including dancers in wheelchairs.
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Read How You Want
Specially formatted books, a cornerstone of blind education, now make pleasure reading easier for persons with physical and developmental disabilities.
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US to Commemorate Braille's 200th
Chapters of the National Federation of the Blind will hold events in January 2009 to honor Louis Braille, whose raised dot language system brought literacy to the blind.
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Yoga DVDs For the Disabled
In this interview, certified Kripalu and Bikram yoga instructor Carol Dickman talks about how she developed her interactive yoga series for persons with disabilities.
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Makers of Accessible Clothing
Getting dressed is a challenge for the mobility impaired, but clothing options combing comfort and quality continue to grow for those in wheelchairs and assisted care.
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Share Your Disability Videos
Quebec-based Webbytalents is the first video-sharing site designed by and for the disabled, providing opportunities for artistic expression and professional growth.
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Free Accessible Downloads from PBS
Viewers with vision or hearing loss can watch six Closed-captioned "American Experience" biographies, including FDR, offered with Descriptive Video Service, online.
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Canada Marks Braille Bicentennial
Braille200 is organizing events across Canada to raise awareness of the life and legacy of Louis Braille, whose raised-dot reading system brought literacy to the blind.
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The New Hampshire Film Festival
Since 2001, the New Hampshire Film Festival has screened groundbreaking independent films, attracting top sponsors, industry experts, and an eager New England audience.
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2009 Wheelchair Rugby Sites Set
The International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) Executive Board has awarded the 2009 regional wheelchair rugby championships to Denmark and New Zealand.
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USABA Offers Full Slate in 2009
In 2009, the United States Association of Blind Athletes offers a broad range of athletic opportunities, from developmental sports camps to international competitions.
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Profile of ABLEDATA
ABLEDATA, funded by the US National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, provides objective information about assistive devices for the disabled.
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Book Celebrates 150 Years of APH
A new history of the American Printing House for the Blind traces its innovations in making words accessible--from antebellum embossing systems to digital recording.
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An Historical Timeline of the APH
APH's 150-year history reflects society's evolving image of what disabled persons are capable of when given accessible resources.
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APH to Update the "Game of Squares"
The American Printing House for the Blind is updating the Game of Squares, an adaptation of the two-player pencil-and-paper game where dots are connected to make squares.
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Low-Vision Holiday Travel Tips
The American Foundation for the Blind offers strategies to blind and visually impaired persons get less stress and more enjoyment during holiday travel.
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Lights, Camera, Access!
Toronto-based Lights, Camera, Access! promotes the presence of the disabled in entertainment and media and recognizes organizations for non-traditional casting.
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Holiday Gift Ideas for the Blind
The American Foundation for the Blind suggests ways to add holiday cheer to the visually impaired with gifts and ways to make guests feel welcome, comfortable and safe.
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Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports
Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports believes that recreation's physical and emotional impact can give the disabled immeasurable self-esteem, confidence, and independence.
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USABA Judo Video for Blind Athletes
The United States Association of Blind Athletes hopes its sports adaptation videos will remove training barriers and open aspiring athletes to competitive opportunities.
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USABA Blind Ski Festival in VT
United States Association of Blind Athletes' Winter Ski Festival enables sight-impaired athletes, including veterans with eye injuries, to ski for fun or competition.
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Audiobook Options for the Blind
Growing popularity of recorded books, long a mainstay of blind education, and advances in digital technology give the sight impaired a wide range of accessible choices.
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Reading Resource Profile for the NFB
The NFB works tirelessly to improve the lives of blind people through innovative programming that encourages self-sufficiency, especially in reading and education.
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