Take Charge with Confidence and Self-Reliance

Month: September 2016

  • Hindley Can Take the Heat #HowEyeSeeIt

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    Mike Thompson

    Hindley loves to cook and entertain, something she learned from positive role models. She gives her thoughts on the negative impact of the #HowEyeSeeIt challenge.

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  • The Blind Sniff Test: Maureen & Delfina Call #HowEyeSeeIt Video Out

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    Dan Burke

    Two women touch glasses

    Does blindness cause people to be unable to tell the difference between water and vinegar? That’s what one #HowEyeSeeIt video concludes. Two of our Home Management Instructors suggest that there’s more than a whiff of the ridiculous in that.

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  • Jackson Can Cross the Street, Can Get the Girl – #HowEyeSeeIt

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    Dan Burke

    Reads Jackson How Eye See It

    Okay, this is really not about finding a girlfriend, but it is about Jackson developing the skills and confidence to be an independent blind person. And what’s not attractive about that? He gives his thoughts on the #HowEyeSeeIt challenge as well.

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  • It’s Not Hard, But It It Is Serious: #HowEyeSeeIt

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    Dan Burke

    Warren is interested in becoming a blind vendor after graduation on October 5. That’s why he took on the task of working with the Center soda machine. He gives us his thoughts on the HowEEyeSeeIt challenge – a fund-raising campaign that invites participants to mimick blindness and call for funding a cure.

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  • Matt Can Type – It’s Not a Challenge! #HowEyeSeeIt

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    Dan Burke

    Believe it or not, the HowEyeSeeIt campaign hsows folks who are convinced they couldn’t type without their vision. Elementary thinking, and a pretty basic skill that Matt mastered long ago.

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  • Cooking with Christian #HowEyeSeeIt

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    Dan Burke

    Mastering the ordinary is not extraordinary for blind people, but that mastery is the foundation for living the lives we want extraordinarily! Christian has been doing a lot of cooking this week, putting in place more of the building blocks for the future he wants for himself.

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  • A Bow Tie (Pasta) Occasion: Jimmy’s Mini-meal

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    Dan Burke

    While one fund-raising organization is sponsoring the #HowEyeSeeIt social media campaign designed to show that blind people can’t do anything, our students here at the Colorado Center for the Blind keep learning every day that they can “Take Charge with Confidence” and “Live the Lives We Want.”

    Take Jimmy’s mini-meal for example …

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