ACB Media Calendar

Seeing Braille, a program for the PC, lets blind or sighted presenters demonstrate braille to sighted audiences, in person or online. By exploring dit positions, letter patterns, numbers, punctuation, and uncracted or contracted words or phrases, users can learn braille by sight and take the mystery out of braille for audiences such as parents, classmates of blind chilred, and the public in general. Presenter: Neva Fairchild, American Foundation of the Blind, retired aging and vision loss specialist, Dallas, TX Co-sponsored by BRL and AABT Full session listing: https://acbconvention.org/?p=127

Patty Slaby will tell us about her inspiring Mission Trip to Lima Peru. She will share about her experiences at an orphanage where she presented and demonstrated how it is to live as a blind individual. She will summarize some of her adventures and describe the time she spent with the children being immersed in Spanish. Presenter: Patty Slaby, itinerant teacher of blind and low vision, Arcadia, WI Co-sponsored by AABT and BRL Full session listing: https://acbconvention.org/?p=127

Knowing how to travel with a cane is vital for our success as blind or low vision people, but yet, too often cane travel instruction is hard to come by. Come and see the plethora of orientation and mobility programs offered by some of the guide dog schools from around the country! Please know that you don’t need to have or want a guide dog to join this session; O&M is for everyone! Full session listing: https://acbconvention.org/?p=127

Come join BRL to play games based on the use of braille. BRL members will lead you in playing a few games using your knowledge about braille. Full session listing: https://acbconvention.org/?p=127

Poets will be performing and discussing their works. Full session listing: https://acbconvention.org/?p=127