OIB-TAC January Webinar: Braille and Beyond!

Please join OIB-TAC and Alice O’Reilly, Chief of the Collections Division, National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS), for a fun and informative conversation. With so many new and exciting things happening at NLS, it’s a great time to get to know what’s going on at the nation’s free library for people with visual and print disabilities, along with how it might be a great resource for your clients. Alice will give an overview of what NLS has to offer in audio and braille, as well as how to enroll with the NLS cooperating library in your state or territory, and share some book lists to get your clients started!

Click here to register for the webinar!

Please note that there is no OIB-TAC Webinar scheduled for December.

Featured Continuing Education Course for Social Workers

OIB-TAC is pleased to share a free, self-paced video/recorded training course for social workers! The course provides an overview of strategies and techniques for working with adults experiencing vision impairment or blindness. Please join us in spreading the word about this exciting course!

Practical Information for Social Workers New to Interacting with Older Adults Experiencing Vision Impairment or Blindness, Course #5163, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Older Individuals Who Are Blind Technical Assistance Center as an individual course. Individual courses, not providers, are approved at the course level. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 10/2/2023 – 10/2/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 general continuing education credits.

Course Instructor: Linda Greth, LSW

Click here for more information or to enroll in the course!

Please note that other courses in the OIB-TAC and NRTC catalog do not currently offer social work CE credit.

Senior Centers Summit: Reframing Aging

Monday, December 11, 2023 | 1:00-4:00 PM ET

Even as Americans live longer and healthier lives, how we think about aging has not changed. Ageism and implicit bias toward age continue to impact our society, including how senior centers are perceived.

Join the Administration for Community Living-funded Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and the National Center to Reframe Aging for a fun and interactive virtual summit where participants will look at how to communicate about senior centers. The summit will provide information, resources, examples, and activities that you can use to enhance the image of your center and be an agent of change in combatting ageism in your community.

The summit will include real-time captioning via Zoom. For questions, please contact Dianne.stone@ncoa.org.

Click here to register for the summit!

Seeing AI App Now Available on Android Devices

Great news for Android users! Microsoft's Seeing AI App is now available on the Google Play Store for use on Android devices. This app uses the device camera to identify people and objects, and then describes those objects audibly for individuals who are blind or have low vision. The app is also available on the Apple App Store for iOS devices.

Click here to read more on Engadget!

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