Thread: Students with Blindness
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Unread 05-01-2013, 19:27
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Re: Students with Blindness
I'm not sure of the current student in question, but being a parent of a child that is legally blind "20/200" vision. We do not let that stop him and nor does he let it. He is currently on a FLL team and has been around FIRST since he was 2 years old. He currently has a CCTV, a FarView, and izoom technology to utilize. But he finds it best to be 5 inches from a Monitor to see. He does everything from working on the Lego Robot, Project, and Programming, and is treated as a team member. The students know his limitations and work with him to help work out anything he has trouble with.

His older brothers are on 4-H Exploding Bacon Robotics FRC team 1902 in Florida and the students, mentors, parents,etc. treat him like any other student. Today he was actually giving strategy ideas to the teams at our Mini Kickoff.

Good Luck - I hope they find a team to work with them.
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