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		<title>The Importance of Connections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personal connections are vital to making informed decisions, learning life skills, and fostering friendships. Each connection provides a unique insight which is valuable for choosing the right path in life. A connection could be a family member, friend, teacher, co-worker, or acquaintance. Some people are in our lives for many years. Others stay for a&#8230; <a class="continue" href="https://carroll.org/2019/02/the-importance-of-connections/">Continue Reading<span> The Importance of Connections</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We must continue to invest in braille</title>
		<link>https://carroll.org/2019/02/we-must-continue-to-invest-in-braille/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN A WORLD where technology is rapidly opening new doors for people with vision loss, most notably in the case of the smartphone and its applications that greatly aid navigation, shopping, and other activities, one might think that braille is going the way of the buggy whip. The reality, as seen every day on our&#8230; <a class="continue" href="https://carroll.org/2019/02/we-must-continue-to-invest-in-braille/">Continue Reading<span> We must continue to invest in braille</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Architect goes blind, says he&#8217;s actually gotten better at his job</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At age 45, Chris Downey had pretty much constructed the life he&#8217;d always wanted. An architect with a good job at a small housing firm outside San Francisco, he was happily married, with a 10-year-old son. He was an assistant little league coach and avid cyclist. And then, doctors discovered a tumor in his brain.&#8230; <a class="continue" href="https://carroll.org/2019/02/architect-goes-blind-says-hes-actually-gotten-better-at-his-job/">Continue Reading<span> Architect goes blind, says he&#8217;s actually gotten better at his job</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sailing Blind</title>
		<link>https://carroll.org/2018/12/sailing-blind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2018 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the extreme end of adaptive sports, technology allows visually impaired sailors to compete without the assistance of sighted crewmembers. A horn blares and the Americans are off, their sails as taut and full as hot air balloons. When they tack or jibe the boom swings across the cockpit as though spring-loaded. Even from another&#8230; <a class="continue" href="https://carroll.org/2018/12/sailing-blind/">Continue Reading<span> Sailing Blind</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Carroll Center for the Blind Appoints  Five to Board of Directors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 17:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWTON, Mass. – The Carroll Center for the Blind announced the appointment of five new members to its Board of Directors: Umesh A. Kurpad, MBA, Chief Financial Officer, Tufts Health Plan Jeff Lurie, Executive Director, Temple Emanuel of Newton Antoine Junior Melay, MBA, Vice President of Client Relations for Workforce Development Training, Windwalker Group Taraneh&#8230; <a class="continue" href="https://carroll.org/2018/12/the-carroll-center-for-the-blind-appoints-five-to-board-of-directors/">Continue Reading<span> The Carroll Center for the Blind Appoints  Five to Board of Directors</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Student group helps blind boater sail independently</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four seniors in the Principles and Practices of Assistive Technology program designed an audible device to help an MIT employee navigate on the water. This fall, a team of four students in MIT’s course 6.811 (Principles and Practices of Assistive Technology, or PPAT) designed a device that will help Pauline Dowell, a legally blind MIT&#8230; <a class="continue" href="https://carroll.org/2018/12/student-group-helps-blind-boater-sail-independently/">Continue Reading<span> Student group helps blind boater sail independently</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Types of Digital Accessibility Clients Does The Carroll Center for the Blind Work With?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2018 02:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Manager of Accessibility Services at The Carroll Center for the Blind, I am often asked what types of clients we work with to improve the accessibility of their digital footprint. There are a couple of different ways I can answer this question. One way is to list all of the different industry sectors we&#8230; <a class="continue" href="https://carroll.org/2018/11/what-types-of-accessibility-clients-does-the-carroll-center-work-with/">Continue Reading<span> What Types of Digital Accessibility Clients Does The Carroll Center for the Blind Work With?</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Disabled Not Making Gains They Should</title>
		<link>https://carroll.org/2018/10/disabled-not-making-gains-they-should/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE SIGNS BROADCAST from storefronts: HELP WANTED.  The federal government says we have achieved “full employment,” that there are currently more jobs than people.  The news media reports on particular segments of the economy where a shortage of workers is threatening price stability and further economic growth. These should be banner days for those in&#8230; <a class="continue" href="https://carroll.org/2018/10/disabled-not-making-gains-they-should/">Continue Reading<span> Disabled Not Making Gains They Should</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Glasses, Apps, Talking Appliances: How Tech For Blind People Is Getting Better</title>
		<link>https://carroll.org/2018/10/smart-glasses-apps-talking-appliances-how-tech-for-blind-people-is-getting-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 22:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[re These glasses have a camera built into the bridge over the wearer&#8217;s nose, so that a remote viewer can see what is happening in front of the person wearing the glasses. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) From smart glasses with an integrated camera for reading, to apps that offer more independence and freedom, what&#8217;s some of the&#8230; <a class="continue" href="https://carroll.org/2018/10/smart-glasses-apps-talking-appliances-how-tech-for-blind-people-is-getting-better/">Continue Reading<span> Smart Glasses, Apps, Talking Appliances: How Tech For Blind People Is Getting Better</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Being Blinded in an Accident Made Brian Charlson’s Life Better</title>
		<link>https://carroll.org/2018/10/how-being-blinded-in-an-accident-made-brian-charlsons-life-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 22:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Brian Charlson, who was blinded at age 11, typed on a Braille keyboard in his office at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton. &#160; &#160; &#160; Brian Charlson’s life changed forever on an afternoon long ago when he was alone in his family’s kitchen. Like many 11-year-old boys, he enjoyed&#8230; <a class="continue" href="https://carroll.org/2018/10/how-being-blinded-in-an-accident-made-brian-charlsons-life-better/">Continue Reading<span> How Being Blinded in an Accident Made Brian Charlson’s Life Better</span></a>]]></description>
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