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Year: 2020

  • CCB’s 2020 Virtual Summer Sessions for Youth – Join Us!

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    Dan Burke

    CCB Summer Tech Instructor engaged with his laptop and Smart Phone

    (Editor’s Note: We don’t blame you for wondering what is up with our summer programs for youth. The coronavirus and the subsequent shutdown orders put us into a scramble, affecting not only our youth programs, but seniors and the Independence Training Program, too. Here’s an announcement from our Youth Services Director Martin Becerra-Miranda that should…

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  • FAST on Pre-ETS: No, it’s not a “syndrome,” it’s Pre-Employment Transition Services! Join us Friday!

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    Dan Burke

    FAST - (Fun Activities & Skills Training) logo

    Who? Blind students of all ages and their families What? CCB’s bi-weekly FAST Zoom call When Friday, June 5, 2020 at 7:00 pm MDT Where? We will hold this meeting on the Zoom Meeting platform Join the Colorado Center for the Blind this upcoming Friday, June 5, 2020 at 7:00 pm MDT for our bi-weekly…

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  • Blindness training goals delayed by social distancing? Check out the new Breaking Blind Podcast

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    Dan Burke

    Corey and David talk about traffic sounds before making a street crossing

    You know, this pandemic shutdown has been going on for a minute. Especially if you are a student at the Colorado Center for the Blind, or someone waiting to come, or someone newly blind and trying to figure out how to do the simplest things you used to do now that you’re blind, let alone…

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  • FAST and Zoom, Zoom and FAST: Our FAST Program for Blind Youth goes virtual This Friday!

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    Dan Burke

    FAST - (Fun Activities & Skills Training) logo

    Editor’s Note: Here’s some news from Youth Director Martin Becerra-Miranda. He’s been busy hosting lots of Zoom meetings for our staff and ITP students for the past month. But he’s also had time to think about what he wants to do with our FAST (Fun Skills Activities and Training) for youth, and maybe, just maybe,…

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  • Let the Blind Be Counted: Our How-to Video on Responding to the 2020 Census

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    Dan Burke

    Okay, we said we’d have a video on the 2020 Census for blind folks, and here it is!

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  • Be Counted: An Update in Light of COVID-19 #DoingMyPart

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    Dan Burke

    Cranmer Abacus - A specially designed abacus that keeps beads in position once they have been set

    (Editor’s Note: We will soon post a video demonstrating How blind folks can complete the 2020 Census, featuring our own Martin Becerra-Miranda and Dan Burke. It’s great YouTube viewing, but we don’t have a trailer. In the meantime then, we’re posting some of that information here to complement the video.) So, let’s talk about the…

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  • Kicking Off “40 Hands in Forty Days”

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    Dan Burke

    40 Hands in fourty days Logo - text: DONATE 3.2.20-4.10.20

    Donate Now We’re extremely excited to be one of 40 Colorado nonprofits to be part of the 2020 40 Hands in Forty Days effort this spring! From March 2 through April 10 (40 days), 40 nonprofits will take part in a unique fundraising effort. We may throw any number of fun ideas out to get…

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