Sense-less game helps deafblind

Read the full story at: http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1 360.html Every now and then, as a journalist, a press release lands upon my virtual desk that stands out because it relates to ‘a good thing’ and one of them arrived today. In fact, it relates to a number of good things: Good Thing Number One It raises awareness of what it is like to live in a world when you are both deaf and blind...

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The Gift.

... for adults in Maryland. I had no prior knowledge about deafblind people and none about the camp. I was born ...I did not know that I was considered to be a deafblind woman and continued attempting to function as if I was just...and I started to question whether or not I could be deafblind? This new awareness of my reality as a deafblind woman left me anxious and somewhat sad. I then took it upon ...

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Gratitude

...a card player, but I truly believe that you must play the hand that has been delt to you and play it to the best of your ability. If I truly think about my situation as it relates to being deafblind, I could think of many conditions that are much worse; granted, there are not that many that are as bad, but you only need to think of one more to feel somewhat better about your lot in life. Linnette...

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The trials and tribulations of online banking using a screen reader.

...would not want to be late paying my internet bill. If that was to happen I would truly suffer from withdrawal. Maybe some people would think that my reaction is extreme, but that person is not deafblind and may have other options of obtaining information. However, the internet is one of my life lines to the outside world and I do not take it lightly. How did I truly survive without the internet...

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after Classes 1 and 2: my progress so far (a roadmap)

... persevere in creating meaningful symbolic surpluses in order to transcend the limits of mere survival (bare life) no matter what (as I also tried to demonstrate in my less lethal case of deafblind subjectivity; Primo Levi writes a lot about it, and many other survivors). But this made me think about the impossibility of attaining that line which lies between “some oxygen” and “no ...

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the little things

... to like it best when we talk about you and how cute and smart you are. If you had opposable thumbs you could be my own furry interpreter. Thank you for the care you take with my elderly deafblind clients. Thank you for showing them your love, for picking up things they drop, for alerting them to their pager's vibrating when it is not on their person. When I read stories about Helen Keller I can'...

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Doubts

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend. --Helen Keller (1880-1968), American author, activist, lecturer and first deafblind person to graduate from college. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

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Deaf-Blind Relay Service

Dear members and supporters of the DeafBlind community: Now is the time to show your support for DeafBlind Relay Service! Hawk Relay's proposal ..., called Communication Facilitators, drive to DeafBlind people's homes or workplaces to ... network will improve the quality of DeafBlind people's lives by increasing their...make a positive impact on the DeafBlind community. Please e-mail me privately...

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