Take Charge with Confidence and Self-Reliance

Category: Computer and Adaptive Technology

  • A Thank-you Following the NFB Convention @nfb_voice

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    Dan Burke

    a smiling dark-haired young woman reaches for the mixing board, a laptop display shows the Colorado Center for the Blind logo on a Zoom screen

    Michelle runs the sound board for the NFB of Denver Chapter meeting. Editor’s Note: As we do each year, staff and students at the Colorado Center for the Blind attended the National Federation of the Blind convention during the first week of July. Forty of us traveled to Houston where we joined over 2300 fellow…

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  • Coding Success with Project Access

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    Dan Burke

    Five student participants have their Microbits plugged in to laptops and are working on coding. Two Instructors provide Assistance

    It may have been the worst speech synthesis since, well, the VoTrax (circa 1987), but it sounded beautiful because this room full of blind students had coded their BBC Microbits themselves to produce that “Hello!” It was all part of our two-day camp with Cyber.org’s Project Access on coding/robotics here at the Colorado Center for…

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  • Turning the Tables: CCB Role Reversal Day 2022

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    Dan Burke

    A standing woman gestures to the room of seated fellow students as she talks

    Students from every continent and every epoch imagine, even if only idly, of someday, somehow turning the tables on their teachers. Likely they don’t realize until they have done it, that their teachers also may see such a reversal as an opportunity to return the torment. That’s partly the story of Role Reversal Day 2022,…

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  • Seniors Are in Charge and In-person This Week at CCB!

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    Dan Burke

    a blind instructor talks with his student, a senior woman as they walk with white canes along a residential street

    Dishon and Olive on the return leg of a travel lesson near the center. Seniors in Charge this year was blessed with lovely fall days. For the first time in two years, our week-long Seniors in Charge is live and in-person at the Colorado Center for the Blind! These four dynamic and intrepid older blind…

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  • Happy Holidays! Thanks to All of You, Lives Change at the Colorado Center for the Blind

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    Dan Burke

    Three young students stand in front of a medical vehicle, all wearing Santa hats

    Caption: Cristian, Shyanne and Kelly stand in front of the medical vehicle at South Suburban Fire and Rescue Station #12 on December 16. They had just delivered a box of holiday cookies and treats baked by students to on-duty fire fighters. In turn, fire fighters showed students one of the trucks and the medical vehicle.…

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  • Meet Adama, a Disability-rights Champion from Sierra Leone

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    Dan Burke

    Adama sitting at the table in the travel lobby with her phone and her slate and stylus.

    For the past three weeks, we’ve been delighted to have Adama Conteh as a special student at the Colorado Center for the Blind. Adama is from Sierra Leone, a country of about 6 million in West Africa. She has been in the U.S. under the sponsorship of Hope International, which has provided Adama with training…

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  • Technology Giveaway in Memory of Former Summer Student, Staffer Megan Bening

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    Dan Burke

    Grinning, Megan shows the Apple watch on her wrist to the camera

    We want to tell people about the Megan Bening Memorial Fund Technology Giveaway by the National Organization of Parents of Blind Children (NOPBC) because it will put over $10,000 of technology into the hands of blind and low vision students. But we also want to tell you about it because Megan Bening was one of…

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  • Soldering wires nonvisually is .. well, a BLAST! @BlackbyrdFly @COSpaceGrant

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    Dan Burke

    Jamie talks to Maddie while she works with a breadboard

    Somebody had to do it. So Jamie Principato decided she would take the skills she’d learned and taught herself as a blind Physics student involved with a Colorado Space Grant rocket project and teach them to other blind students. That’s where the idea of BLAST came from – Blind Learning All Skills Too launched on…

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  • A Farewell Wave to Our Alabama Friend

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    Dan Burke

    a woman wearing sleep shades uses her cane to maneuver in the Travel Lobby.

    We want to give a farewell wave to Jessica Edmiston, who spent Monday through Thursday here at the Center, not just observing, but working under sleep shades all week, going to classes with student mentors and working on the basics of Braille, Assistive Technology, cooking and travel. And as it happened, she was here to…

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  • Sleepshades, Cinnamon Pudding Cake & Seniors In Charge May 2017

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    Dan Burke

    Steve works with Janet to learn the Braille Alphabet using a muffin tin and tennis balls

    You wouldn’t have needed to be told that Dorine’s Cinnamon-Pudding Cake was an award-winner if you had been anywhere near the Center’s kitchen this afternoon. It’s our spring Seniors in Charge week, and we have five dynamic seniors determined to keep living the lives they want. This afternoon, of course, they were cooking and baking…

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