In the last installment of LNB, I included some information on ordering tactile graphics for the Summer Reading Program. Barb recently sent me a sample of a SRP certificate (of completion) done in Braille by OSCI in Oshkosh. The Braille certificates cost $.50 each, and they will do a brailled page of text for the same price. OSCI can also do Brailling for libraries year-round.
If your library is interested in having a certificate done in Braille this summer, I can send you a copy of the order form.
They provide statewide services to blind and visually impaired students. As a part of the Department of Public Instruction's Division for Learning Support: Equity and Advocacy, the WCBVI is the lead resource for providing quality services to blind and visually impaired school-age children.
As the Director of Outreach, Stacy and her team include consultants and/or specialists in the areas of assistive technology, birth-to-six, low vision, orientation and mobility, parent support, professional development, school-age children, students who are deaf/blind, students with multiple disabilities, and transition.
She talked about some great resources also available to public libraries, such as:
Barb H. sent me samples of the "Dandy Hands" brochures. This brochure has strategies that facilitate the development of hand function for visually impaired, blind and deaf-blind babies.
This is what the NFLS home page looks like to a person with normal color vision.
With the click of a button, and using the Colorblind Web Page Filter, a person who has tritanopia (blue/yellow color blindness) can change the NFLS homepage to this:
Want to experiment with this page or YOUR library's website?
Click on the Colorblind Web Page Filter logo on the right-hand side above the NFLSFlickr Badge.
Type in your webpageurl, pick a color filter and click "fetch!" You can also embed the logo on your webpage or blog if you know of patrons or children who have color vision deficiencies at your library. It might help them view your webpage or other pages more easily!
The Wisconsin Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped is working with the Summer Reading Program so children in your community can participate in the program. Let them help you get the right materials!
If you are interested in book suggestions for either the Catch the Reading Bug or Metamorphosis @ Your Library, I will send one your way. Brailled copies of activities from the SRP manual are available by calling Patricia Froelich at the Colorado State Library (303) 866-6908.
