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Blind tennis players keep their ears on the ball

Last updated Monday, October 29, 2012 - 3:04pm

That’s what students are doing at the California School for the Blind. They’re learning a form of tennis adapted for the visually impaired — and expanding the boundaries of what the blind can do.

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Garrison Clark competes at the Utah Regional Braille Competition in Salt Lake City on Friday. Forty students from around the state, including 14 from the Top of Utah, gathered Friday at the Utah State Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired for the annual event.(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Visually impaired students use right touch at braille competition

Dana Rimington Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 3, 2012 - 7:48am

SALT LAKE CITY — Sixteen-year-old Ellie Price, of Logan, can take a reading test with her eyes closed, and she’s not the only one.

Forty students from around the state, including 14 from the Top of Utah, gathered Friday at the Utah State Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired for the annual Utah Regional Braille Competition.

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Teacher Shelly Moss guides a “blind” Naftali Sanchez,16, through the Ben Lomond High School cafeteria on Thursday. Sanchez is wearing blacked-out goggles that block her sight so she can learn the challenges blind people face daily. (MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

Ben Lomond High peer counselors 'disabled' for a day

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 12:08am

OGDEN -- Neftali Sanchez waited in silence on a bench inside Ben Lomond High School, helpless to see the way to the school cafeteria.

"I'll be back for you," teacher Shelly Moss called to the 16-year-old, hurrying toward the lunch line to help Neftali's classmate, Jasmine Ayala, 15, who was struggling to move forward in her wheelchair.

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Andy Enriquez looks at Marlene Nord, who is blind and is the senior proofreader of Braille textbooks at the Alternate Text Production Center. Nord is reading back to him what he just finished. (SHNS photo by Juan Carlo / The Ventura County Star) (RS)

Prison inmates create Braille materials for students

Cindy Von Quednow Ventura County Star

Last updated Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 6:00pm

BLYTHE, Calif. -- Rolando Rodriguez, an inmate at Ironwood State Prison, got the best birthday present he could ask for three days before he turned 36. His 16-year-old daughter called to say she was proud of him.

Rodriguez credits his daughter, who was 7 when he was incarcerated for assault with a deadly weapon against a police officer, as the reason he joined a training program at Ironwood to become a certified Braille transcriber.

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