A Guide To Gifts For Those Who Can't See
NPR
Monday, December 22, 2014
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Host Robin Young is sporting a Braille bracelet from the Carroll Center for the Blind. (Kevin Sullivan)
In this week of Christmas, we want to go through some holiday gift ideas, but this is not your typical gift list. We want to look at ideas for the visually impaired — including new technology that can help people without sight do everything from read a book to tell the time.
Brian Charlson is director of technology at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, Mass., he is also blind and he joined Here & Now‘s Robin Young to go through a list of interesting gifts for people who are visually impaired.
Charlson’s list of gift ideas:
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- Brian Charlson, director of technology at the Carroll Center for the Blind.
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