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Braille Holiday Cards, Chocolate
A Christmas tree embossed on a greeting card or a braille message on a milk chocolate bar offer a perfect way to wish a blind or visually impaired person happy holidays.
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Travel Assistance Device
New technology aims to reduce paratransit costs and increase mobility for disabled persons by making trips on fixed-route transit systems easier to plan and navigate.
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Enhance Mobility With Balance Basics DVD
Balance Basics and Beyond is a 53-minute DVD designed to promote overall health by teaching exercise strategies to improve one's balance.
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Teaching Sports to Blind Children
In this interview, Camp Abilities founder Lauren Lieberman reflects on the far-reaching benefits inclusion in sports creates for visually impaired students.
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Jubilee Sailing Trust
Aboard the Lord Nelson and the Tenacious, disabled and able-bodied sail side by side on the world's only two square-rigged tall ships designed and built for the disabled.
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BrainPort Vision Device
BrainPort collects visual data using a tiny, glasses-mounted video camera, translating images into electrical patterns on the surface of the tongue.
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Blind Everest Climber Inspires Students
For Weihenmayer, a personal vision of how we see ourselves serving others and impacting the world is life's loftiest adventure-one that, for him, is fueled by adversity.
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Web Radio Resources for the Blind
The Internet offers blind persons intuitive technology to explore and share interests in music, news, Old Time Radio, and what's happening in the disability community.
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Accessibility Aids from Tetra Society
The Tetra Society of North America is a nonprofit that recruits skilled volunteers to create customized assistive devices for persons with physical disabilities.
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Spinning is Accessible Low-Vision Workout
In spinning, you pedal to the pulse of music and adjust resistance on a low-tech, stationary bike, which makes it an ideal activity for the blind and visually impaired.
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Llama Trek for Blind in Colorado
Colorado Ski For Light's annual llama trek teams blind and visually impaired with sighted guides for a challenging, boundary-breaking journey into the Rawah Wilderness.
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Training Disabled Shooters
Vanessa Warner of the National Rifle Association talks about two of her passions: guns and introducing the disabled to recreational and competitive shooting.
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Disabled Shooting Resources
The National Rifle Association offers information on adaptive equipment and techniques to make hunting and gun sports accessible to a broad range of disabilities.
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Torball
Despite being supplanted by Goalball as a Paralympic event, the game of Torball, developed in Germany in the 1960s, rolls on.
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Cerebral Palsy No Barrier to Art
Keplinger's struggle for self-expression, captured in the Oscar-winning documentary, King Gimp and a Super Bowl ad, has shaped his life and the world of accessible art.
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Accessible Art Resources
The art world is reaching out to persons with disabilities, offering accessible museum exhibits, artists residencies - even tickets and transportation to cultural events.
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USABA Disabled Cycling Camp
In September, the United States Association of Blind Athletes hosts "Learn To Race," a week-long camp to foster recreational and competitive cycling among the disabled.
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Bowling for the Blind
Few sports have proven as adaptable as tenpin bowling, whose tournaments for the blind draw as many as 1,500 participants from over 125 leagues throughout the US.
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Stampede for VIPS, Louisville, Kentucky
The Stampede showcases elite blind runners and raises awareness of and funds for advocacy and outreach programs run by Visually Impaired Preschool Services of Louisville.
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Adaptive Tennis Serves Many Disabilities
Despite the sport's physical demands, tennis is popular and played at every level by persons with a wide range of physical and sensory disabilities.
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Free Hadley Course for Blind Travelers
"On the Road Again: Travel Planning, Techniques, and Tips" is the latest e-Hadley distance learning class, which the blind and visually impaired can take for free.
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New Audible Basketball for the Blind
The Hadley School for the Blind has commissioned a new beeping basketball designed to make the game more accessible to blind and visually impaired players.
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Oral Hull Summer Camps for the Blind
The Oral Hull Foundation will hold four summer camps at its secluded 23-acre retreat center in the woods near Sandy, Oregon.
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Camp Yorktown Bay
Nestled on the shores of Lake Ouachita (Mountain Pine, AR), Camp Yorktown Bay offers an ideal setting for religious instruction and traditional camping fun and adventure.
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Vision 5K Road Race for the Blind
Top blind and visually impaired runners from around the world head to Boston in June 2009 for the Vision 5K, one of the few races dedicated to disabled athletes.
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