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- From: Nimer <nimerjaber1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: blind_html@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Brandon Shuttleworth <shuttleworthb01@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:39:07 -0600
Look at the second article.
"every time I say something they find hard to hear
they chalk it up to my anger
and never to their own fear"
Ani Difranco: I'm Not A Pretty Girl 1995
Nimer M. Jaber
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Low Vision Aid for People with Macular Degeneration and Retinitis
Pigmentosa
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Posted: 16 Mar 2009 11:19 AM PDT
Millions of people in the US have age related Macular Degeneration, and
other low vision diseases that have caused permanent loss of central
vision. The SightMate LV920 viewer can help many of these individuals
with inoperable visual impairments improve their visual acuity and
quality of life.
The SightMate LV920 viewer is a portable, lightweight video magnifier
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that people with between 20/70 to 20/200 acuity in their best eye have
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The SENSEsational Alphabet Book
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Posted: 16 Mar 2009 09:34 AM PDT
From the publisher: "This is a completely interactive ABC picture book,
focusing on integrated sensory methods to learning. This enables all
students, regardless of their strengths and weaknesses, to build a basis
for fundamental communication skill development. The book incorporates
visual stimuli, movement, touch, smell, sound, braille, and sign
language, with each page having a unique feature. Learning the alphabet
has never been more exciting and stimulating! This fun and engaging book
lets students feel the different textures of the Horse and Lizard, smell
the distinctive aromas of Apples and Roses, move the hands of the Watch,
pull the Zipper, and much more! Learn the entire alphabet and many
beginning words in sign language and braille. Touch the corresponding
key pad and recite the letters and words along with the book. A portion
of all proceeds is donated to various children's charitable
organizations and educational facilities across America".
This book is truly a "multi-sensory" book. Every picture is visual and
tactile. Every word is in print, braille, sign and spoken English (when
you press the button). Many pages are scented. Perhaps best of all is
the comparatively low price tag for a "special education" item.
Click this link to purchase /The SENSEsational Alphabet Book/ from
eNasco
<http://www.enasco.com/specialeducation/action/ProductDetail;jsessionid=68119AAD322E676BBF0C168FBF46209A?sku=SN02880CQ>.
MathPlayer: A Math reader for Blind Students
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Posted: 16 Mar 2009 08:10 AM PDT
Design Science has developed a product called MathPlayer to help the
visually impaired. The player reads mathematical text aloud, and you can
alter the way it reads certain functions (for example, you may prefer
close parens or you might like it to just say parenthesis). The program
understands the need to know whether a portion of a fraction is the
numerator or the denominator, it understands that you would need to know
when the argument of the square root ends, etc.
MathPlayer enables Microsoft Internet Explorer to display mathematical
notation in web pages. It is based on MathML technology and requires
Internet Explorer for Windows version 6.0 and later. "We make MathPlayer
available for free in order to foster the adoption of MathML in the
math, science, and education communities".
Right-click on an equation and see what MathPlayer lets you do with it!
You can cut-and-paste math into any one of a growing number of
MathML-compatible software packages, such as Maple and Mathematica. You
can open it in our WebEQ and MathType products for further editing,
reuse in your own documents, and much more>.
Click this link to visit a demonstration page where you can hear JAWS
for Windows read a website with and without MathPlayer
<http://www.afwings.net/MathML-speech-demo.htm>.
Click this link to download MathPlayer
<http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/>.
Social Security Retirement: Prepare for the Unexpected
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Posted: 16 Mar 2009 06:06 AM PDT
by Tim Moore
If you are now at the age where you find it prudent to consider planning
for the "inevitable", meaning your golden years of retirement, you^D>'re
probably thinking about investments and your retirement savings.
You^D>'re probably not thinking about the unexpected things that can
happen to affect your retirement.
No one wants to think about the unexpected, such as spousal death,
divorce, or a major medical condition developing like a stroke or
cancer. Unfortunately, a new study suggests that is exactly what you
should be thinking about when you plan for retirement.
The study was funded by the National Institute on Aging and consisted of
a ten-year study period of adults ages 51 through 61. The study, named
the Health and Retirement study, was held between the years 1992 and
2002. During that time, researchers took a look at what
^D<'unexpected^D>' events occurred in the lives of those seniors who
were nearing retirement age. Surprisingly, seven out of every ten
experienced a major setback that was not planned for, such as an
employment layoff, divorce, death of a spouse, health problems that
forced them to cut back on work, and major medical issues, such as
diabetes, cancer, heart problems, a stroke, or a psychiatric condition.
In all cases these contingencies were not taken into consideration when
planning retirement, though with the statistical likelihood of seven in
ten, researchers are saying they should have been.
If you are currently planning for retirement, there are a few things you
could think about that might help your retirement nest egg stay strong.
While everyone knows that they should start saving early and save as
much as possible, another thing you could do is update your resume to
show the skills and work experience that you have under your belt.
Having an updated resume is handy, and you might even want to show it to
your current employer.. If not, take a look at your updated skills and
qualifications you have and see how they might transfer to a home-based
business. If you have this information ready and available, a layoff
might not come as such a hard blow.
It is also wise to invest in disability and life insurance. Disability
insurance is becoming more common, and in many cases could be more
important than life insurance. If you can, get both, and remember to
upgrade coverage as your income rises. Life insurance will be crucial if
you experience the death of a spouse, and disability insurance could be
a life-saver if you develop a severe medical condition such as cancer or
diabetes.
Lastly, one of the best things you can do in life is to maintain your
health. Eating healthy, exercising, and getting adequate sleep can not
only help you feel better and live longer, but it also helps stress
levels and can help you deal with anything unexpected that may pop up.
It may sound simple, but maintaining your health is some of the best
insurance money can^D>'t buy.
Reference: Tim Moore is a former Examiner for the Social Security
Administration. He has a website that provides information on the SSD
and SSI disability system and which also provides a Social Security
Disability FAQ <http://www.disabilitysecrets.com/questions.html>.
SSD and the Impact of a Claimant's Age
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Posted: 16 Mar 2009 05:46 AM PDT
by Tim Moore
Occasionally, applicants for SSD will broach the issue of age and how it
may affect an application for SSD. Age will have some impact on the
majority of disability applicants, regardless of whether their
application is for SSD or SSI. When it comes to being able to perform
^D<"other work,^D>" an SSD applicant^D>'s age can affect a disability
examiner^D>'s decision to approve (or deny) benefits. Why? Because the
younger an applicant is, the more likely it is that he or she will be
able to find other types of employment in the national economy.
Therefore, the older a person is at the time of filing for disability,
the better his or her chances of receiving benefits.
However, age is truly an important factor in disability cases only for
those who are age 55 and older, simply because it is recognized that, at
this stage in life, learning new work skills, relocating to a different
area where jobs are more plentiful, or getting hired for any job for
that matter, can be more difficult than for younger workers.
That said, it is important to note here that there is another, more
obvious way that an individual^D>'s age can impact their disability
case, because social security has a completely different method of
evaluating disability in children versus adults.
Adults are considered disabled if their impairment prevents them from
earning a living wage (this amount is known as the SGA [substantial
gainful activity] amount and it is determined annually by social
security). And for this reason, an SSD application filed by an adult
will be evaluated in terms of medical treatment history and in terms of
work history.
Children, by contrast, are considered disabled if they are unable to
perform age-appropriate activities, both academic and social. This
determination may be based on a review of medical records, but also a
review of school information as well.
The official social security impairment handbook reflects this
difference, and has separate listings of impairments that it recognizes
as disabling for children. Thus, a child must meet different criteria in
order to prove disability, and a child with a particular medical
condition (ADHD comes to mind) may be approved for benefits, while an
adult suffering from the same condition may be denied.
However, aside from the differences that separate the way adult
disability claims and child disability claims are processed, age is not
nearly as important a factor in the disability evaluation process as
many claimants might assume. And for the most part, unless an individual
can be categorized as "approaching advanced age" or being of "advanced
age", age may actually have little impact on the outcome of their case.
Reference: Tim Moore is a former Examiner for the Social Security
Administration. He has a website that provides information on the SSD
and SSI disability system and which also provides a Social Security
Disability FAQ <http://www.disabilitysecrets.com/questions.html>.
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