American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults
Future Reflections Convention Issue 2023
https://www.actionfund.org/resources/braille-calendars
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Contact: 410-659-9315
Are you ready for a 2024 Braille calendar? The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults produces over eight thousand Braille calendars each year, and they are given free to any blind or deafblind person in the United States. These pocket calendars are great for the office, home, or classroom. Individuals can order up to three free Braille calendars per year.
Accessibility Online
https://www.accesssbilityonline.org/ao/archives/111069
Contact: 877-232-1990
Hosted by the Great Lakes ADA Center, Accessibility Online is a series of webinars on creating accessible spaces for people with disabilities. "Designing for Children," held on August 3, examines the needs of children with disabilities that differ from those of adults. Accessibility standards under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) provide requirements that ensure that facilities such as daycare centers, playgrounds, and children's museums are designed with accessibility for children with disabilities in mind. Webinars are archived and available to the public.
Fat Brain Toys
fatbraintoys.com
Contact: 800-590-5987
Fat Brain Toys offers thousands of educational toys that encourage problem solving and imagination. Toys are listed by developmental age. Categories include active play, arts and crafts, building and construction, imaginative play, maker and DIY kits, music, outdoor toys, sensory toys, and much more.
Melissa and Doug Toys
https://www.melissaanddoug.com
Contact: 800-718-5365
Melissa and Doug began thirty years ago by crafting sturdy wooden puzzles. Over the years, they have expanded to include a wide variety of toys that encourage screen-free, imaginative play. Kid-centered play promotes skill building and problem solving.
Adaptations Store, San Francisco Lighthouse
https://lighthouse-sf.org/tmap/
Contact: 888-400-8933
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The TMAP-ON-Demand Tactile Street Map program creates custom maps of any street address. Each packet includes a zoomed-out overview map and a zoomed-in detail map showing streets, paths, and buildings.
Princeton Braillists
https://shop.nbp.org/collections/maps-princeton-braillists?view=30
For more than thirty years, two women based in Princeton, New Jersey, created tactile atlases of continents, nations, and US states. Their atlases are available through National Braille Press. All maps are produced on thermoform sheets and are labeled in print and American contracted Braille (not UEB).
National Library Service Music Collection
https://www.loc.gov/nls/braille-audio-reading-materials/music-materials
Contact: 800-424-8567
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The NLS Music Collection, authorized by Congress in 1962, includes Braille and large-print musical scores, recorded instructional materials, and recorded materials about music and musicians. Music materials are circulated to patrons directly from the NLS headquarters in Washington, DC. Most materials are also available as free downloads from Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD), a web-based service that provides access to thousands of Braille and encrypted audiobooks, magazines, and music scores.
Dancing Dots
https://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/currdet.htm
A Course in Music and Braille Music Reading
by Richard Taesch
An introduction to Braille music for the blind student, this book is a flexible course that equips the mainstream educator who has no prior experience with Braille to teach and learn music Braille. The author is a lifelong music educator who is certified as a Braille music transcriber by the Library of Congress.
Convention Survey
If you attended the 2023 NFB National Convention, please share feedback in English or Spanish.
English: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TCXMT7Q
Spanish: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W2F96RG
To complete the survey by phone, call 229-632-7878 or toll-free 833-632-7878. Please note that the phone number above provides the survey in an automated system and will require the survey to be completed in one session. There is an option to pause the survey for five minutes and the pause can be extended as needed. Push the pound key for help.
Educational Technology Survey
https://nfb.org/legal/surveys
The NFB is gathering information regarding the accessibility of educational technology used in our nation's schools (kindergarten through graduate level). If you are a student, parent, teacher, or administrator who uses screen access software or other accommodations to participate nonvisually in educational programs or services, or if you are the parent, teacher, or administrator of someone who does, please complete the Education Technology Survey once a semester and contribute to this important research.