VOLUNTEER FOR THE PROGRAM FOR THE BLIND AND

DISABLED

250 North 1950 West, Suite A

Salt Lake City, Utah 84116-7901

blindlibrary.utah.gov

THE DETAILS

The Utah State Library for the Blind and Disabled needs your skill, talent, and time to help provide patrons with excellent library services. Donating your time and skill to our library is not only fun but very rewarding and much appreciated by patrons and staff.

WHAT YOU WOULD BE DOING:

1) Book Inspection.

2) Editing Audio Books.

3) Narrating Audio Books.

4) Radio Reading Service Narrators.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

James Shulfer, Volunteer Coordinator

Utah State Library

Program for the Blind and Disabled

250 North 1950 West, Suite A

Salt Lake City, UT 84116-7901

 

Telephone: (801) 715-6791

Email: jshulfer@utah.gov

Website: http://blindlibrary.utah.gov

 

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2009 OPEN HOUSE WAS A SUCCESS!

The Utah Center for Assistive Technology and the Computer Center for Citizens with Disabilities hosted an open house in September. Joining us at our event for the second time this year was Citizens Re-utilizing Assistive Technology Equipment (CReATE).

People that visited our facility discovered:

--Accessible Vehicles with Lifts and Ramps

--Augmentative Communication Devices

--Refurbished Wheelchairs and Scooters

--Assistive Technology Demonstrations

--Funding and Legal Information

--Electronic Aids to Daily Living

--Adaptive Computer Products

--Refreshments

With continuing interest both by the public and from vendors that UCAT works with, the Open House had too much to enclose indoors. Some of the things that visitors learned was how modern technology could help people to cope with the functional limitations that disabilities impose on daily living activities.

If you missed us this year, be sure to check us out next year in the Fall at what has become an Assistive Technology Fair.

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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES, WORDQ & PROLOQUO2GO

See UAAACT for more detailed information.

WORDQ WITH SPEAK Q WORKSHOPS -- These workshops are limited to the first 20 people who register. Additional WordQ with SpeakQ Workshops can be scheduled by contacting Craig Boogaard directly.

WordQ is a writing tool that lets you write by speaking. It suggests words for you and provides spoken feedback as you go. The transparent state-of-the-art word prediction program eliminates the need for additional windows on the screen. WordQ includes fully integrated text-to-speech feedback and flexible spelling options. It also adapts to specific writing styles and improves its performance as it's used.

TANGO WORKSHOP by Pati King DeBaun, October 7th.

PROLOQUO2GO WORKSHOP by Scott Baggaley, October 8th from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the Computer Center. Please register by contacting Lynn Marcoux or Scott Baggaley.

Proloquo2Go™ is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, full expandability and extreme ease of use to the iPhone and iPod touch.

Proloquo2Go includes natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, full expandability and extreme ease of use.

EMPLOYEE OF THE QUARTER!

The employee of the quarter is Kevin John. Congratulations Kevin on a job well done.