The Braille Monitor

Vol. 44, No. 10                                                                                  November 2001

Barbara Pierce, Editor

Published in inkprint, in Braille,
and on cassette by The National Federation of the Blind

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Contents

Vol. 44, No. 10                                                                                 November 2001

     

Frontispiece

A New Day Dawning: The NFB Breaks Ground for the
National Research and Training Institute for the Blind 
       
by Barbara Pierce

Carving a Niche: Blind Sculptor Steve Handschu Gives
Hands-on Lessons in Empowerment
by Dennis Rodkin

The Advantage of Establishing a Period of Disability
by James Gashel        

They Just Don't Get It
by Albert Spooner
    
The 2002 National Federation of the Blind Scholarship Program

Holiday Shopping Ideas
by Brad Hodges

Blindness Needn't Be All That Bad
by David Hamilton

On Blindness
by Arthur A. Schreiber

Bookshare.org: Books Without Barriers
by Peter M. Scialli, Ph.D.

Bravo! Miss Brown: A World Without Sight and Sound by Joan MacTavish
Reviewed by Lorraine Rovig

Anthropologist's Hands See Details of History
by Oliver Uytterbrouck

The Blind Physicist Who May Find E.T.
by John M. Williams

Being Different
by Jaime Fradera

Thanksgiving With The Troops
by Charles Allen

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