Ballyland Magic and Ballyland Rotor, as presented at the SPEVI 2017 Conference With these fun apps your students and you can learn how to use iOS mobile touch devices by way of VoiceOver, Apple’s built-in screen reader for iOS devices. Ballyland Rotor is Sonokids’ new iPad game app, teaching children who are blind or have…

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Thanks to Paul Garwood from Senses, WA for the two following posts: This is the story of Darren Steven’s journey in completing a full Ironman Triathlon. Darren has Usher’s Syndrome causing both significant vision and hearing loss. The Ironman journey, Busselton WA Dec 4th 2016   The preparation: My journey to complete a full Ironman…

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Merry Christmas everyone!  Thanks Amy Barrett-Lennard for the pic of the WA OMAA crew enjoying Christmas lunch :-) (L-R): Ella Peaty, Monique White, Paul Garwood, Jodie Bruce, Angela Wills, Carla Mears and Amy Barrett-Lennard. Thanks also to Paul Garwood for this report on the Deafblind Camp recently held in WA. I attended the 10th National…

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  News from Victoria:   It is with sadness that I must start this post with the news that Leigh Garwood, former General Manager of Seeing Eye Dogs/Orientation & Mobility Services at Vision Australia, passed away yesterday from cancer.  Leigh was at the helm of Seeing Eye Dogs when that agency merged with Vision Australia,…

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