This is a special invitation for California high school juniors and seniors who have disabilities to apply to come to Sacramento and attend the California Youth Leadership Forum July 24-29, 2010. Students will have the opportunity to live on a college campus and join more than 900 alumni from across the state…
Read More Leadership Forum for Youth with Disabilities. Apply before February 3rd!The LightHouse is grateful to have the support of various honorary committee members who play a role in raising the profile of our programs, assist with fund- and friend-raising and serve as a valuable resource. Our 2009 Insights Honorary Committee helped us draw hundreds of people to our 20th exhibition,…
Read More LightHouse Benefits from Honorary CommitteesAccessible World's Tek Talk podcast series features a show on iPhone usability and specific navigation features. Join Dean Martineau and learn…
Read More Accessing the iPhone tutorial on Tek TalkInclusive Planet is a forum that enables persons with visual impairment to share accessible content with each other, build conversations around the experience and make friends amongst the global visually impaired community. Share your collection of class notes, Ebooks, presentations, lectures, code snippets, or whatever else. Featured are a number of channels on various…
Read More Inclusive Planet: global visually impaired community sharing books and more!Are you a visually impaired college student with an interest in health information sytems? Why not apply your unique perspective to this field by challenging yourself with the following summer internship program?
Program aims to enhance diversity in health-related graduate school programs.
College students who want to skip the mindless low-wage job this summer and learn…
Read More Project L/EARN Offering College Students Paid 10-Week Summer Internships in Health Research at RutgersA message from Donna Willmott, Consumer Rights Advocate,
Planning for Elders:
Once again seniors and people with disabilities are the target to help balance the budget. The MTA is proposing to raise the cost of discount passes for seniors and people with disabilities to $30 on April 1. This will hit our community hard, as people…
Read More SPEAK OUT AGAINST AN INCREASE FOR MUNI PASSES FOR SENIORS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES!To receive this list in your inbox every week, email info@lighthouse-sf.org
Beginning this week you will see changes in the Audio Described Movie Listings. They are now organized by County. In coming weeks listings will be available for Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Solano Counties.
This listing is compiled by the Vision Loss Resource Center at the…
Read More Northern California Entertainment and Recreation Listing January 222010 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS WITH PARENTS WITH DISABILITIES
Through the Looking Glass and its National Center for Parents with Disabilities and their Families are pleased to announce new scholarships specifically for high school seniors and college students who have parents with disabilities. A total of ten $1000 scholarships will be given…
Read More Through the Looking Glass Scholarships for youth who have parents with disabilitiesThe LightHouse is proud to host The Mega Program: Self-Defense for the Visually Impaired. This program was developed specifically for the visually impaired. It began in London, England, and has been featured on the BBC radio program InTouch. Every workshop will cover physical techniques along with discussion of laws and self-defense theory that specifically…
Read More Mega Self-Defense Workshops at the LightHouse, January 23.The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that it has reached agreements under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Pace University in New York City and Reed College in Portland, OR, regarding the use in a classroom setting of the electronic book reader, the Kindle DX,…
Read More DOJ Reaches Settlements under the ADA Regarding the Use of Electronic Book Readers
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