Thanks to a generous grant of more than $98,000 from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, APH is excited to launch our enhanced website (npbn.org), which includes updated, user-friendly content to help you find out more about the Prison Braille program and the surrounding Network. We have restructured the website to make information easy to find, […]
Continue ReadingThe Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, is pleased to announce the hiring of Terry Harris as Director of the Miami Accessible Media Project (MAMP). The MAMP, under the school’s statewide instructional resource center, is a prison program producing accessible materials for students who are blind or have low vision, at the Miami […]
Continue ReadingImagine sitting in your classroom where all the students are working in small groups solving math problems from their textbooks, except you. You are visually impaired and need materials in braille. Since braille textbooks take months to produce, and this is the year for new math books, your textbook in braille has not arrived yet. […]
Continue ReadingEveryone’s experience upon leaving prison is different. Mine was colors. I had forgotten the colors. My world had been shades of gray. Gray steel, gray concretes, gray clothes, faded blues. I stepped out that morning into bright yellow sun. Greens and orange. Pinks. A swirl of warm shades. No one noticed I was overwhelmed by […]
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