Volume LV December 2016 No. 6
Published by the American Council of the Blind
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© 2016 American Council of the Blind
Eric Bridges, Executive Director
Sharon Lovering, Editor
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Table of Contents
- Results of the ACB/CUSDGS Survey Are In!, by Tony Stephens
- ACB’s Parenting Video Available – And Has Audio Description, Too
- Scholarship Application for 2017-2018 School Year Now Available!
- Convention Nuggets from Reno, by Janet Dickelman
- ACB Fall Board Meeting Report, by Ron Brooks
- Bid It and Buy It at the ACB Radio Holiday Auction, by Carla Ruschival
- How Do You Find a Job When You Are Blind?, by Marcia Moran
- This Blind Apple Engineer Is Transforming the Tech World at Only 22, by Katie Dupere
- The Things I Do Today, Part Four: Listening with the iPhone, by Paul Edwards
- A Shopper’s Dream, by Carla Ruschival
- Affiliate and Committee News
- In Memoriam: Cleo B. Dolan, 1918-2016, by Bashir Masoodi
- Here and There, edited by Sharon Strzalkowski
- High Tech Swap Shop
- ACB Officers, Board of Directors and Board of Publications
- Accessing Your ACB Braille and E-Forums