• Kirsten & Her Cane: Sleepshade Training for New Marketing Director for @NFB_Voice

    Kirsten & Her Cane: Sleepshade Training for New Marketing Director for @NFB_Voice

    We’re delighted this week to have Kirsten Mau here under sleepshades, taking all the usual classes. Kirsten is the new Marketing Director for the National Federation of the Blind, headquartered in Baltimore, but she lives in the Denver area. Typically a telecommuter, she’s been using offices at CCb off and on during home remodeling. This…

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  • Blowing off Steam After Competing in the Braille Challenge CSDBBulldogs

    Blowing off Steam After Competing in the Braille Challenge CSDBBulldogs

    After spending much of the day in their chairs, giving their best in various Braille skills as part of the 2018 Braille Challenge, participants in the Metro area competition found goal ball the perfect way to unwind. It’s the third year we’ve hosted the event for Metro-area kids, which is organized in Colorado by the…

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  • Dreaming of warmer weather? Announcing dates for our 2018 Summer Youth Programs!

    Dreaming of warmer weather? Announcing dates for our 2018 Summer Youth Programs!

    Summer 2018 When it snows in Georgia, when it’s warmer in Atlanta, Idaho than it is in Atlanta, Georgia in January (I checked it, 32 versus 30 degrees) … Well, it’s time to talk about Summer 2018 and our residential youth programs! Below you will find the dates of our three residential programs, links to…

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  • What You Carry in Your Soul & a Trip to the Wood Shop: A Visit from Alum Cathy @Kudlick

    What You Carry in Your Soul & a Trip to the Wood Shop:  A Visit from Alum Cathy @Kudlick

    It has been nearly 18 years since Catherine Kudlick first arrived in Littleton as a student at CCB, but the lessons of her training have endured, as she told staff and students in Philosophy Class last Thursday. Cathy’s blindness is due to Nystagmus and she had never used a cane before she came for training.…

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  • No Snow Day in 1988: Marking CCB’s 30th Anniversary!

    No Snow Day in 1988: Marking CCB’s 30th Anniversary!

    It’s a big day today. Sure, there’s World Braille Day and Louis Braille’s 209th birthday, and our Independence Training Program students are back from the holiday break and our first Seniors meeting is this afternoon. We’re excited about all that, but here at CCB we’re very excited about something else, too. Today marks 30 years…

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  • Cesar’s FB Post … (he) was feeling accomplished at Colorado Center for the Blind

    Cesar’s FB Post …  (he) was feeling accomplished at Colorado Center for the Blind

    Editor’s Note: Cesar was the final student to graduate in calendar year 2017, on Friday, December 15 in fact. This is the post he made just hours after receiving his Freedom Bell. His parents drove up from Phoenix and he returned with them before our coldest weather set in, assuring us all that he was…

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  • Recent Newspaper Articles Highlight CCB Partnerships

    Recent Newspaper Articles Highlight CCB Partnerships

    We wanted to bring your attention to a couple of newspaper articles that appeared in November and brought attention to the Center. Both reflect great partnerships that help us ensure that our students can, as our tag line says, learn to “Take Charge with Confidence and Self-reliance!” The first, from November 5, appeared in the…

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  • Your White Cane Can Take You Very Far: A Travel Note from Libby at Antelope Canyon Arizona

    Your White Cane Can Take You Very Far: A Travel Note from Libby at Antelope Canyon Arizona

    Editor’s Note: Libby graduated from the Center this fall. She recently sent us this photo following a tour to this beautiful spot in her home state, a Navajo Tribal Park. It’s a great testament to how far a blind person can go with a white cane. Sounds like a great trip Libby! . I got…

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  • Access & #TactileLiteracy: A Day in Our College Prep Class

    Access & #TactileLiteracy: A Day in Our College Prep Class

    Access to concepts and information presented in graphical form has long been a challenge for blind college students. In the past couple of decades the surge in digitally-displayed content has, well, gone supernova. Thus, blind college students need to develop basic tactile literacy with two- and thre-dimensional representations that their sighted peers may have learned…

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  • Before Departing, One Last Meal & Secret Santas Revealed #ShareLittleton

    Here we are with a white Christmas in Colorado when it was looking pretty dusty and dry. Naturally, the Center closed for the holidays, but we finished up in the spirit last Tuesday. Our traditions involve a breakfast together, provided by the GraceFull Cafe in downtown Littleton consisting of very large and very delicious breakfast…

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