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Jobs for Humanity: Connecting Employers with Talent

A high unemployment rate exists among people who are blind or low vision. It may be partially due to potential employers seeing a candidate’s disability and failing to recognize their abilities and job qualifications. Likewise, a potential employer may struggle to understand how a person who is blind or low vision performs specific job functions […]

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Feel Words Come to Life: Refreshable Braille Displays and the NLS eReader Program 

Imagine a book, but instead of ink on smooth paper or pages rustling, you have a row of dots beneath your fingertips. This is possible thanks to refreshable braille displays, and revolutionary sleek and portable tools empowering people who are blind or low vision to read and write. The National Library Service for the Blind […]

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Letters to Parents: A Classroom Teacher’s Perspective

  The start of a new school can be exciting and nerve-wracking all at the same time. For parents of children who are blind or low vision, excitement often gives way to fear, anxiousness, and uncertainty…and understandably so. This past school year, I was blessed to have two students in my class who received low […]

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The Dots of Braille Music Transcription

Daniel Gillen is a Library of Congress Certified Proofreader in Unified English Braille. He works as a Braille Music Specialist at The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School, FMDG, in New York City.  Daniel began learning braille music from FMDG when he was five. There, he participated in their choir and learned to play the […]

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