[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: maps for the blind
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:51:46 -0600
Hi Cindy!
Thanks for including this message. I will have to hop on the NPR site to
see if I can find this story to listen to..
Debby
At 07:59 PM 1/4/2010, Cindy wrote
Probably those of you who listen to NPR know about this, but my daughter
just sent this to me and she and I both thought it might be of interest to you.
Cindy
Do you know about maps for the blind? I heard a story
> about it on npr
> this morning. This organization up here in SF called
> the Lighthouse is
> making them - so far they have sold 15. The story was
> very interesting,
> about where in our brains we map places and what the
> ability to "see" a
> neighborhood or city does for blind people that they can't
> experience
> otherwise. You could probably hear the story or read
> the transcript on
> the npr web site.
>
> Anyway I thought you might want to pass that onto your book
> group in
> case they don't know about it yet. They have maps of
> the entire U.S.
> but said most of the requests they have received have been
> from people
> wanting to "see" what their own city looks like.
>
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