Blogs – Page 29 – LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Students and instructors, all wearing white aprons, pose with cooking utensils in the LightHouse training kitchen

New to Blindness? Learn essential skills with a virtual Edition of Changing Vision Changing Life

09/03/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

Changing Vision Changing Life (CVCL) is for those who are new to blindness or low vision and want to get a full overview of the essential training that will be...

EHC teen camper working on a wood working project

LightHouse Youth Return to Favorite Programs this Fall. And Something New!

08/30/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

LightHouse’s Youth Programs team is excited to be bringing back many of your favorite virtual programs this autumn, plus introduce a new one. Find out more about them below....

Cropped illustration of 2 horizontal fencing weapons, blade cross sections in circles, and shaded target areas on body, with braille labels.

Touching The News: What are the different types of Olympic fencing?

08/27/2021/in Touching the News/by Naomi Rosenberg

Title: Olympic Fencing Description: The three Olympic fencing styles are contrasted by each weapon’s long cross section on the left (horizontal line), its blade cross section in a circled...

And the 2021 Holman Prizewinners Are…

08/19/2021/in LightHouse News/by Caitlin O'Malior

The LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco is pleased to announce the winners of the fifth annual Holman Prize for Blind Ambition. Last month an international...

6 of 12 signs of the zodiac with braille labels

Touching The News: What do the 12 signs of the Zodiac look like?

08/13/2021/in Touching the News/by Naomi Rosenberg

Title: Twelve Zodiac Signs Description: Twelve symbols laid out in a grid, 3 across and 4 down. From left to right, top to bottom. Aries (ram). The symbol represents the face and...

Two people wearing masks standing six feet apart in the LightHouse building lobby at 1155 Market Street

LightHouse Face-to-Face & Virtual Classes Available; Other Face-to-Face Services by Appointment

08/04/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

For the past several months, LightHouse has resumed select face-to-face classes, while maintaining safety for staff and students. The recent rise of the Omicron variant means taking a more cautious...

YES Summer Academy participants, Heaven, poses at the Grand Canyon

This Year Marked the Return of the YES Academy to EHC

08/04/2021/in LightHouse News/by Caitlin O'Malior

This summer, LightHouse was thrilled to bring back the Youth Employment Services (YES) Summer Academy. Due to COVID-19 restrictions and health and safety protocols, last year we ran the program...

California Agencies for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CAABVI) appoints first Executive Director

08/04/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

For more than 30 years California’s private agencies serving the blind have had a loose informal association with one another. In recent years, funding streams for training homemakers, non-vocational services...

A poster for the webinar with pictures and captions for audio description, tactile approaches, emerging technologies and depictions of blindness in comics. Info on where to register and accessibility for the webinar is also provided.

Free Day-Long Symposium on Making Comics Accessible, August 12

08/03/2021/in LightHouse News/by LightHouse Staff

Adapting Comics for Blind and Low Vision Readers Presented by: San Francisco State University’s Comic Studies Department, The Program for Vision Impairments, and the Longmore Institute on Disability Sponsored...

Illustration of a basketball court with braille labels

What is the layout of an NBA Basketball court?

07/30/2021/in Touching the News/by Naomi Rosenberg

Title: NBA Basketball Court Description: Aerial view of a standard NBA basketball court, a horizontal rectangle. Two equal sides of the court are mirrored by the (vertically drawn) half-court line,...