September 15-29, 1996

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• NYISE participates in "NY Wired for Education" On September 21, 1996, The New York Institute will join the State in an "electronic barn-raising" by bringing communities together to wire the school and library for Internet access.
• Web Homepages of the Blind Community:
  A new feature of Blindness Resource Center

Interwork Institute - an Auxiliary of San Diego State University

McMaster University, Office for Ability and Access

Making Mathematics and Science Accessible to Blind Students through technology RESNA '96 Proceedings. (Lawrence A. Scadden, Ph.D)

University of Minnesota, Disability Services:
    Crookston,   Duluth,   Morris,   and   Minneapolis, St. Paul

Personal Data Systems, Campbell, CA. PDS was founded for the purpose of helping physically impaired people make better use of the opportunities that computers afford them.

The Russian UniVi Project is a private initiative for deafblind children. The site includes a page on Russian Sign Language

Science Access Project Homepage at Oregon State University.

• Introduction to DotsPlus a device-independent typeface developed for blind readers that intends to encompass a large set of symbols in addition to standard braille.
• Introduction to GS and The Unified Braille Code Project: GS is being developed as a dual 6- and 8-dot braille code with the 6-dot code modeled on the uniform braille code proposed recently by the International Committee on English Braille.
• SCREEN and its Braille Interface to UNIX: Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.
• TRIANGLE: A Mathematics Scratch Pad for the Blind is a computer program designed for students and professionals in math, science and engineering.
• Tactile Graphics, An Overview and Resource Guide

Seedlings Braille Books for Children: is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high quality, low-cost Braille books for children. From Contemporary Literature to well-loved Classics, Seedlings offers over 270 low-cost Braille books for children ages 1 to 14

SNENews: Vol. 1 Issue 5-August 25, 1996(Special Needs Education Network

Teaching and Learning in Special Needs Education

The VISIONS Lab at Purdue University
   (Visually Impaired Students' Initiative ON Science)

Previous What's New Editions: Vol. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 and 8

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