Article: Reading By Touch Kim Charlson, ACB President, is quoted in this article. Reading By Touch Article Link: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reading-by-touch/ Helen Keller was born in 1880, just over 50 years after Louis Braille published his eponymous writing system. Braille, who was three when an accident in his father’s workshop left him blind, had been frustrated by […]
May 3, 2018 The Madison County Association of the Blind (M.C.A.B.) held their 63rd annual birthday celebration. We celebrated at Polly’s restaurant in Cottage Hills. Along with our birthday celebration our new officers was installed. Everyone got to order from the menu with their choice of food. With every thing being under $15 a person. […]
The M.C.A.B got to enjoy a St. Louis Cardinals ball game on Tuesday April 24th. At 7:15 p.m. The Cardinals played the New York Mets. With a score of 6 to 5 in favor the Mets. The game was won in the 10th inning. The members that enjoyed the game where Kim, Diane, Jackie, Steve, […]
[leadership] Article: Doctors perform gene therapy treatment on boy with inherited blindness Doctors perform gene therapy treatment on boy with inherited blindness Article Link: https://mashable.com/2018/03/24/gene-therapy-blindness-treatment/#c1XOdNZ2Amqf On the morning of March 20, eye surgeon Jason Comander injected viruses carrying lab-grown genes into the eyes of a boy whose vision had been gradually disappearing. If all goes […]
Black & White Pebbles Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s beautiful daughter. So he proposed a bargain. He said he would forgo the farmer’s debt if he […]