New Talking Glucose Monitor
Ed Bryant
New Talking Blood Glucose
Monitor and Insulin Identifier
by Ed Bryant
From the Editor: This article first appeared in
the Voice of the Diabetic, Volume 13, Number 4, Fall 1998, published by the Diabetes
Action Network of the National Federation of the Blind. Ed Bryant is the President of the
Network and the Voice Editor.
This is what he has to say about an exciting new
product:
Roche Diagnostics-Boehringer Mannheim
NMSVH Settlement Announced
NMSVH Settlement Announced
From the Editor: Beginning with the October,
1996, issue of the Braille Monitor, we have periodically reported on the unfolding
problems at the New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped (NMSVH). A settlement in
the civil suit brought by a number of current and former NMSVH students was worked out
last January shortly before the case was due to go to court. The terms of the settlement
were kept secret for six months, but in August they were made public. Here is the text of
Daddy Read Me
Bonnie Peterson
Daddy Read Me
by Bonnie Peterson
From the Editor: Bonnie Peterson is a
long-time leader in the National Federation of the Blind. Here is her contribution to
Wall-to-Wall Thanksgiving, the thirteenth Kernel Book. It begins with Dr. Jernigan's
introduction.
If you could change just one thing about your
childhood, what would it be? An interesting question and one which you would normally
expect to bring a wide variety of answers. But if you ask this question of a group of
Wall-to-Wall Thanksgiving
Barbara Pierce
The Wall-to-Wall
Thanksgiving
by Barbara Pierce
From the Editor: The following recollection
first appeared in the NFB Kernel Book of the same name. We reprint it here with the hope
that your Thanksgiving in 1998 will be filled with love, friendship, and gratitude despite
the sorrow that necessarily shadows our lives this autumn. As usual, the story begins with
Dr. Jernigan's introduction.
Barbara Pierce is no stranger to Kernel Book
Monitor Miniatures
Karen Mayry
Monitor Miniatures
1999 NFB Merchants Spring Meeting:
Don Morris, President of the Merchants Division,
has asked us to carry the following announcement:
A conference cruise or Seminar at Sea will be
sponsored by the Merchants Division. The conference date is April 18 to 25, 1999. In
addition to program topics such as the Randolph-Sheppard Act—What does it say? What
does it mean?--and rules and regulations (while you may not think that is an exciting
Braille Monitor 11/98, Contents
The Braille Monitor
Vol. 41, No. 10
November 1998
Barbara Pierce, Editor
Published in inkprint, in Braille, on cassette, and
the World Wide Web and FTP on the Internet
THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
Marc Maurer, President
National Office
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21230
NFB Net BBS: (612) 696-1975
Web Page address: http//www.nfb.org
Letters to the President, address changes,
Convention Bulletin 1999
Convention Bulletin 1999
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It is time to plan for the 1999 convention of the National
Federation of the Blind. Last year's convention in Dallas was one
of the best we have ever experienced--a great hotel staff, a
truly impressive program and exhibits, and fellowship of the
highest order. The year before, 1997, we set an attendance record
in New Orleans. Atlanta in 1999, however, promises to bring not
A Jurist Who Happens to be Blind
Judge Richard C. Casey
A Jurist Who Happens to Be Blind
in the Federal Courts
by Richard C. Casey
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From the Editor: Tuesday afternoon, July 7, delegates to the
1998 convention of the National Federation of the Blind heard a
stirring address by the Hon. Richard Casey, District Judge in the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New
Assessing 3 Rehabilitation Agencies
Dr. C.Edwin Vaughan,
Professor of Sociology
at the University of Missouri at Colombia
An Organizational Approach to the Evaluation
of Rehabilitation Outcomes:
Assessing Three Private Rehabilitation Agencies
by C. Edwin Vaughan, Ph.D.
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From the Editor: The following pilot study was conducted in
1997 and early 1998 by Professor C. Edwin Vaughan for the U.S.
Blind in the Teaching Profession
Cheralyn Braithwaite
The Blind in the Teaching Profession
by Cheralyn Braithwaite
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From the Editor: The first item on the Thursday morning
agenda at the 1998 National Convention was a presentation by
Cheralyn Braithwaite, a special education teacher from Bountiful,
Utah. Her story was familiar, but she told it with compelling
honesty and heart-warming enthusiasm. This is what she said: