The Hadley School for the Blind is the largest worldwide distance educator of blind and visually impaired people, their families and blindness service professionals. Founded in 1920 by William Hadley and Dr. E.V.L. Brown, Hadley offers classes free of charge to its blind and visually impaired students and their families and affordable tuition classes to blindness professionals. Today, the school serves more than 10,000 students annually in all 50 states and 100 countries. Hadley relies on contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations to fund its programs.
Ever considered working with wood? Have you previously enjoyed woodworking but feel your current level of vision is not adequate for safe power tool use? Want to keep up with the latest information on woodworking tools, periodicals, projects and safety techniques? Join us Wednesday, May 14, 2 p.m. Central Time, 19:00 GMT, as we explore safe woodworking skills.
Read more about the woodworking seminar.
Did you miss the April 19 Seminars@Hadley about spring cleaning and interior design? Hear it live at Hear it live at “Seminars@Hadley Presents: Interior Design and Organization”
Grant from Vision for Tomorrow Allows Hadley to Develop Low Vision Course for Educators.
These braille courses are intended to improve the braille skills of students in the Adult Continuing Education and High School Programs.
Braille Literacy 4: Contract Braille
This 30-lesson course teaches tactile readers of braille the 189 contractions, in which some words and letter combinations are represented by one or a few braille characters. Formerly referred to as Grade 2 braille, contracted braille allows for faster braille reading and writing because less space is required for each word. It will help increase your braille literacy because most braille books and magazines are produced in contracted braille.
Learn more about Braille Literacy 4: Contract Braille
Experience Braille Reading
This 15-lesson course will help braille readers become familiar with reading a wide variety of material by providing exposure to the specialized formats used for brailling calendars, menus, recipes, poetry, song lyrics and more. The course explains how to follow the text and interpret the varied formats.
Learn more about Experience Braille Reading.
Hadley now offers braille production services to help meet your braille embossing
needs. To learn more, access the Hadley
Brailling Services link.
Do you have personal print items that need to be brailled and embossed? Do you want to send a letter or note to someone who reads braille? Do you want to expand your print material so that it can be read by someone who is blind or visually impaired?
Hadley Brailling Services can help!
This new service from The Hadley School for the Blind offers brailling services
for a nominal cost. For a FREE estimate, please call Hadley Brailling Services
at 847-784-2899.
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