Future Reflections Fall 2004
Free Braille Book
Bags
Thanks to
a grant from Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation, National Braille
Press and Seedlings Braille Books for Children are distributing free Braille
book bags to American families of young blind children, ages birth to seven.
Go to ReadBooks! at <www.braille.com> or call 888-965-8965, extension
34.
Math Teaching Aid
Math Window™
is a low-tech mathematics teaching aid that allows a blind and visually impaired
student to learn math concepts and set-up and solve math problems. The kit includes
a framed magnetic board, 156 numeral and math symbols in Nemeth Braille code
and print, 6 separation lines, and a canvas carrying case with handles. Also
available is an Algebra Add-On Kit. For more information contact Wolf Products,
106 Purvis Road, Butler, Pennsylvania 16001. (724) 285-5428, <www.mathwindow.com>,
<wolfproducts@mathwindow.com>
New, Improved Easy-to-Read
Font
The American
Printing House for the Blind (APH) announces a new easy-to-read font designed
especially for people with low vision. Developed under the guidance of APH
leader Elaine Kitche, APHont™ was tested by a number of institutions before
its public release. Sr. Elaine George of St. Lucy’s Day School in Upper Darby,
Pennsylvania, found that sixty percent of her students who read large print
preferred APHont™ (the next highest percentage was twenty-two). Visit ww.aph.org/products/aphont.html>
to download APHont™ directly, after certifying its use for or by persons with
visual impairments. For more information, contact Gary Gregoricka, Public Affairs,
(800) 223-1839, ext. 457 or <prassistant@aph.org>.
Braille Transcription
Services
Multimedia
Transcription Service (MTS) is a non-profit organization in Hackensack, New
Jersey. We offer quick and accurate transcription in literary Braille and Nemeth
code of texts ranging from first-grade primers through college level mathematics
and chemistry. We also offer many foreign language transcriptions. Our customers
include APH, educational institutions, government and non-profit agencies, corporations,
hospitals, theaters, and individuals. If this information could be helpful to
any parents looking for publications to be done for their children, we would
be pleased to work with them. For more information, contact: Cathy Zimmerman,
Certified Braille Transcriptionist, Multimedia Transcription Service (MTS),
131 Main Street, Suite 120, Hackensack, NJ 07601. (201) 996-9423, fax: (201)
996-9422, <mts.ber@hipcil.org>.