Braille

The Sunshine Coast is a vast region with growing and diverse communities, as a result there needs to be improved access to sports and reaction facilities for people having some form of disability. Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 – Disability (Access to Premises-Buildings) Standards 2010, and the Building Code of Australia, council has obligations with regard to the design of accessible public buildings and amenities. The University of the Sunshine Coast has a ten million dollar…

online ordering system accessible. ADA and state laws require public restaurants and other public entities to maintain a web site accessible to blind customers. To access the internet, blind individuals use screen reader software that either displays Braille on hardware devices or vocalizes text-to-speech. If a webpage is not compatible with screen reader software, blind internet users are effectively locked out.…

service. Physical barriers: Lack of access, perhaps in the form of ramps or doorframes that are not wide enough for wheelchairs, any disabled toilets or lifts where necessary, lack of equipment or resources such as hearing loops, information in braille. Language can be a barrier, if understanding or support for a child who’s first language is not English is not available this will hold them back. Amendments made to the Disability Discrimination Act 2001 required all schools built from 2001 to…

Each day when you wake up, you look around at what’s going on or check the weather for the day. You sit down to eat breakfast and you watch the news. Imagine that one day you wake up and can’t see anything. Your eyes are open but you see nothing but black. As your trying to figure out why you can’t see you realize that you can’t hear anything either. You can’t hear your alarm clock going off. You can’t hear the train horn that is sounding from only a few miles away. This would be a frightening…

Johanna Mansfield Sullivan or better known as Anne Sullivan is a teacher and instructor famous for teaching Helen how to sign and communicate. Sullivan was born April 14, 1866 in Agawam Massachusetts. Her parents were poor immigrants that did not know how to read or write. When she was five, she contracted a disease called trachoma. This disease caused painful infections in her eyes and made her blind. Three years later, her mother died and her father left the children because he thought he…

“The Farmer’s Wife” is a richly woven tapestry, underlying the powerfulness of women when exalting their bodies by writing its parts. Right from the outset, the choice of the title is revealing. Taking a look back at “The Farmer’s Wife” magazine in the United States of America, one may recognize the embedded allusion in Sexton’s poem. The aim of the magazine is to build a bridge between real farmers with the audience; it also uses articles to instruct these workers on a variety of activities.…

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller said these words because she was blind and deaf, therefore she could only feel things. So while other people was seeing the beauty of the world Helen was feeling the beauty of the world.Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880 in Tuscmbia,AL. Helen Keller is considered one of the leading figures in the twentieth century. She lost both her vision and hearing when she was 19…

Tropical Park was developed in 1979, on site of what used to be a former horse track. The park attracts roughly 1,500,000 visitors every year. The park has a vast amount of activities, from common sports such as baseball, basketball, and football to more complex activities such as corporate team building, fishing, racquetball to name a few. To host all these activities, the park offers numerous amenities from basic sporting fields, to concession buildings, equestrian center, boxing facility, dog…

see before he goes blind, the Hayes’ have been traveling all over the world to visit these places. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Me: How did this affect your life? Nathan: I learned braille, learned to use a cane,…

a health and social care message. Communication is passing a message on to a person/people using different types based on the person. An example of some different types of communication is: verbal, written, visual, touch, sign language, and even braille. Contexts One-to-one: Positive Depending on the patient, I feel this is the best way of putting a message across, because it comes across as the most serious ‘down to business’ approach. The patient might also feel less intimidated, because…