Blogs – Page 28 – LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired

A digitally animated drawing of a blind Japanese woman walking in an open landscape from the film Flight Paths

Watch the best in Films on Disability at Virtual Superfest Disability Film Festival 10/15 to 10/17

10/13/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

This weekend, October 15 through 17, is the annual Superfest Disability Film Festival. Superfest is the longest running disability film festival in the world. It has run since 1970 and showcases the best...

George Freeman works with students at a personal safety workshop

LightHouse Staffer Katt Jones on Developing “Your Personal Safety” Workshops. Final workshop is October 16

10/13/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

This summer LightHouse partnered up with a personal safety instructor from Savannah, Georgia, George Freeman, to bring the LightHouse community and their families specially designed virtual accessible workshops called Your...

Take 10% off all Canes and Cane Accessories for White Cane Awareness Month

10/13/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

It’s October, and you all know what that means… White Cane Awareness Month! To celebrate this monumental month of blindness awareness, pride, advocacy and independence, LightHouse’s blindness product...

Blind employees work on the assembly line at LightHouse Sirkin Center in Alameda

LightHouse for the Blind Wins Top Environmental Award

10/13/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

We are so proud and honored to announce that LightHouse Sirkin Center, our social enterprise dedicated to furthering the employment opportunities for people who are blind or have low vision,...

Cropped diagram of the Pentagon layout showing corridors, rings, and impact damage area.

Touching The News: Where was the Pentagon hit on 9/11?

10/08/2021/in Touching the News/by Naomi Rosenberg

Title: Pentagon 9/11 Layout Note: For this week you chose the location of the different branches of the military in the Pentagon. We found it very difficult to find a verifiable...

Cropped diagram of planetary and asteroid orbits with braille labels.

Touching The News: How close to the sun is the newly-discovered asteroid with the fastest orbit in our solar system?

09/24/2021/in Touching the News/by Naomi Rosenberg

Title: PH27 Fastest Orbiting Asteroid in Our Solar System Description: Diagram of planetary and asteroid orbits around the sun. Three solid-line, concentric circles represent the planetary orbits, with a label...

Blind Chemist Hoby Wedler Leads first “Cooking with Community Class” for Youth

09/20/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

Calling all cooks and aspiring cooks in middle and high school who are blind or have low vision: LightHouse Youth Programs is pleased to announce a new class: Cooking...

Celebrate Disability Culture at Palo Alto Art Center In-Person or Virtually

09/20/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

You’re invited to The Art of Disability Culture: Artists with Disabilities Dispelling Myths, Dissolving Barriers, and Disrupting Prejudice, running September 11 through December 11 at the Palo Alto Art Center in...

COVID-19 Rent Relief for San Francisco Residents

09/20/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

The San Francisco Mayor’s Office on Disability and the San Francisco Mayor’s Office on Housing and Community Development would like San Francisco tenants to know about a COVID-19...

Sitting on her Mother’s lap, a blind toddler thoughtfully uses her fingers to explore a tray of multi-colored feathers

LightHouse Launches New Program for Parents of Infants and Toddlers Who are Blind or Have Low Vision

09/09/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a major new program called LightHouse Little Learners. The program will serve families of children ages birth to three who are blind,...