Colorado Center for the Blind

Summer Youth Explore the Garden

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Dan Burke

July 19, 2017

Today we start up again after our annual trip to the National Fedeeration of the Blind Convention in Orlando, but the CCB summer students got back in the swing of things yesterday. Since it was our appointed gardening day with the Master Gardeners, summer students and staff got the privilege of bringing in the first…
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CCB gets perfect score, Students & Board get to know one another

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Dan Burke

June 9, 2017

The Colorado Center for the Blind received word in May that we had been recertified by the National Blindness Certification Board for another three years, and that we received the first-ever score of 100 percent following the onsite review. That news was reported last week to the CCB Board of Directors! Our distinguished Board of…
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Read a CCB Alum’s Contribution to the NY Times #Disability Series

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Dan Burke

June 1, 2017

We want to call your attention to this excellent article by Catherine Kudlick, a 2000 CCB grad, The Price of Disability Denial It was published in the New york Times on May 24 as part of its Disability series. The Times says: “Disability is a weekly series of essays, art and opinion by and about…
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Belted Kingfisher, Orange Belts and Yoga’s Doggie Down: A Typical Tuesday at CCB

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Dan Burke

November 30, 2016

So this is how Tuesday goes at CCB sometimes. First thing this morning Alie Mays came for our “Birdying by Ear” class. Seven of us reviewed recordings of local bird songs, then walked over to Sterne Park, where we heard mallards, doves, goldfinches and of course Canada geese. Today’s mascot was the belted kingfisher, an…
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Thankful for Each Other: Our 2016 #Thanksgiving Together

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Dan Burke

November 21, 2016

We were more than ready by noon last Thursday! we’d been waiting for this meal for two weeks, smelling the roasting turkeys and the pies and so much more! Of course, all of our students had a part in preparing it, so they’d been right in the kitchen smelling what we were at last all…
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Raise your Lemonade Glass to the Curtis Hotel @thecurtishotel #WeLovetheCurtis

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Dan Burke

November 4, 2016

And now raise your lemonade glass in a toast to employees at the Curtis Hotel! Last weekend, at the 2016 National Federation of the Blind of Colorado Convention in Lone Tree, Marc Greytak of the Curtis Hotel in downtown Denver presented a check to CCB for $3141.25. That’s pretty exciting, you bet! What makes this…
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From Super Bowl Parade to Freedom Bells: A Video Retrospective of 2016

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Dan Burke

November 2, 2016

Got about 20 minutes to be wowed? We’re just back from our 2016 National Federation of the Blind of Colorado Convention in Lone Tree from October 27 to 30. All staff and students attended and, since we’re an NFB training center (the NFB of Colorado started the Center in 1988), Executive Director Julie Deden always…
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The Blind Sniff Test: Maureen & Delfina Call #HowEyeSeeIt Video Out

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Dan Burke

September 23, 2016

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

September 23, 2016

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

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Dan Burke

September 21, 2016

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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