Online Networking for Success! September 25, 2009 Panel Presentations 1 – 3 p.m. PDST Get started in our computer lab! 3 – 4 p.m. PDST 214 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102 You’ve heard the buzz about making connections with Facebook and Twitter, but how do these sites work? More importantly, how can you, … Continue reading This Friday’s LightHouse tech seminar: Online Networking for Success!
From The Arc of the US and The Arc of San Francisco Health Care Reform & Disability Teleconference The Disability Coalition for Health Care Reform is sponsoring a teleconference entitled “Will health insurance reform mean security and peace of mind for people with disabilities?” on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 1:00p.m. Central Time. Speakers include … Continue reading Sept. 17 Health Care Reform & Disability Teleconference, The Arc
This contest is a great way to motivate new Braille learners. LightHouse staff Lisamaria Martinez won first prize when she was seven years old for reading 2,081 Braille pages in 3 months! Even with the explosion of digital reader options like Victor Stream and Book Sense, Lisamaria says, “Braille is still my favorite way to … Continue reading National Federation for the Blind’s Braille Readers are Leaders expands!
Special Olympics International (SOI), based in Washington, DC, is committed to providing year-round sports training and athletic competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities and to opening the minds of all people to the gifts and talents of these athletes, is seeking a Chief Marketing & Development Officer (CMDO), Reporting to the President … Continue reading Employment Opportunity: Chief Marketing & Development Officer – Special Olympics International
Six youth interns in the LightHouse Transition and Employment Services Program completed a 5 and 6 week long summer internship program.
The California Foundation for Independent Living Centers would like to invite you to register for the September 11 – 13, 2009 YO! Disabled & Proud Youth Advocacy Summit. The summit is open to youth with disabilities between the ages of 18 – 28 that live in northern California. If you believe that California’s schools should … Continue reading YO! Disabled & Proud Youth Advocacy Summit
National Federation of the Blind of California Convention (Oct. 22-25)
East Bay Innovations is accepting applications for their new County of Alameda Project SEARCH.
Project Director, Association of University Centers on Disabilities Overall Job Description: This is a senior position at AUCD to provide leadership, guidance and creativity for the AUCD network of Centers and Programs to conduct research and education activities in the areas of disability and health in cooperation with CDC’s National Center for Birth Defects and … Continue reading Job Opening: Project Director, Association of University Centers on Disabilities
The National Federation of the Blind, American Council of the Blind and Darrell Shandrow, an ASU journalism student, filed a complaint against ASU in order to avoid the future use of the Kindle in the classroom until it is made accessible to blind students. According to the complaint, the Kindle DX has a text-to-speech function … Continue reading Blind students may have problems using Amazon’s Kindle DX, which is being tested in pilot group classes at ASU in fall 2009.
