The Coburn Blog

This is pretty neat. The Central Cost Assistive Technology Center puts this TV broadcast over the internet every so often about different types of assistive technology for different types of disabilities. This one demonstrates the CCTV the CCTV I have at home.

Curb Cuts. how visually impaired read

I have the CRT model that Voc Rehab got me, but as you can see, the CRT model isn’t very portable. I do use it at home though, which helps me a great deal read my mail, and textbooks and stuff. Thats the first time I’ve seen that portable model, something like that would be neat for school, where the camera rotates from a textbook, to the blackboard, for example. My Independant Living Skills instructor didn’t recommend that praticular model, because she said the camera doesn’t do a very good job of focusing at a distance, like for the blackboard or overhead projector, but yeah the CRT model that the old lady is using, thats the model I have here at home. Like I said, the only thing i don’t like about it, is I can’t take it outside of the house, and as big as it is, I really don’t have room on my desk for it as it is. I’d eventually like to get a longer desk to put it on, as I’d use it more if it had wheels on it for example. pretty slick though eh? They have another episode that talks about assistive technology for recreational activities too, which is really neat to watch.