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March 30, 2022(1 event) 5:30 pm: Summer For Success – A virtual Open House – You are cordially invited to attend a virtual open house at the Colorado Center for the blind to learn about our exciting summer program for blind youth. Meet summer staff members. Date: Wednesday March 30 2022 Time: 5:30 MST. Who should attend: Colorado Students who are blind ages 14 to 21, their parents, and rehabilitation professionals. General Information We are offering two three week sessions this year. One session will begin on June 10 and will run through July 1. The next session will run from July 15 through August 5. Students will live in an apartment and will be supervised by a summer staff member. Space is limited and filling up fast. Join us on Wednesday, March 30 to find out more! Please RSVP to Anahit LaBarre Director of Youth Services at alabarre@cocenter.org. She will send you the zoom link we’ll be using for the open house. We’re looking forward to meeting you all virtually next Wednesday! |
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April 23, 2022(1 event) 12:00 pm: Spring Into Action FAST AND Learning Box Combined Activity – We’re combining FAST and learning Box again this month for an all in-person Saturday afternoon of fun and learning! We have two activities planned for students: learning about planting and playing goalball. Students will get to do both. Ann Cunningham will teach about the life stages of a lima bean, from germination to a full-grown plant. She will have tactile pictures and plants in several stages of growth that students will explore. Then students will plant seeds in a small planter box. They will also have an option to take home lima beans and necessary supplies for planting more. Of course there will be Goalball in the gym, and everyone gets to play! Do we have to say that goalball is a lot of fun? But it also offers the lessons of any team sport – teamwork, collaboration, and communication.
For ParentsParents of blind children and blind parents will collaborate on making fun snacks for all the kids. members of the Blind Parents’ Division of the National Federation of the Blind of Colorado will lead the activity by teaching their sighted fellow parents safe and effective nonvisual techniques in the kitchen. These are techniques parents can then teach to their own children in order to help foster greater age-appropriate independence.
For Young ChildrenWe invite all members of the Blind Parents’ Division to attend with their little ones. Our younger participants can plant lima beans. Afterwards, they can spend time with friends, playing various games, such as Red Light, Green Light. One of our blind parents will read a braille story to the children. Supervision and snacks will be provided.
Click on this sentence because it’s the link to register your student by April 18.If you have any further questions, please contact Anahit Labarre, alabarre@cocenter.org or 303-778-1130,,223. |
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Where: Virtual, A Zoom link will be provided upon registration
How can you tell what your money is when you can’t see it? You sure don’t want to put a twenty dollar bill into the soda machine! Coins are easy to identify tactually. Paper money, not so much. So, let’s learn how to identify paper currency. We can fold it in certain ways. But how do we know for sure what bill is what when a clerk at a store hands us change for $8?
There are apps that can be used on an iPhone to identify paper money. There is also an IBill, a pocket-sized device which can be used to identify paper currency. The U.S. Treasury distributes the IBill free to blind Americans for purposes of accessibility. They are distributed by the Colorado Talking Book Library, and for this Learning Box, you can get your free device! So, during this month’s activity, students will learn how to use the IBill device to identify your cash!.
Register here for this month’s Learning Box on identifying and organizing money.
Registration deadline is Sunday, May 15. To receive your free IBill from the Colorado Talking Book Library, we will contact you to gather the information they require for you to qualify. Understandably everyone can get just one free IBill.
This educational activity is developed and presented by The National Federation of the Blind of Colorado, the Colorado Center for the Blind, and the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults. It is free of charge for all participants, but if you would like to donate, please visit our donation page .
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact:
Anahit LaBarre alabarre@cocenter.org
Michelle Chacon blindedcolo@gmail.com