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Police investigate Shuswap shooting
Police are investigating a deadly shooting in Shuswap community of Blind Bay, B.C., about 70 kilometres east of Kamloops.
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National Federation of the Blind Commends Department of Education for New Accessible Technology Guidelines
BALTIMORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The National Federation of the Blind urged all elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools to follow guidelines issued today by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights and deploy new or emerging technologies only if they are accessible to blind students. The guidelines, in the form of Frequently Asked Questions, were issued to supplement the …
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The Leslie and Robert Drews Low Vision Clinic is New Name of Clinical Facility at St. Louis Society for the Blind …
St.Louis – The St. Louis Society for the Blind & Visually Impaired, founded in 1911, is pleased to announce that it is naming its clinical facility The Leslie and Robert Drews Low Vision Clinic to honor the late ophthalmologist Leslie Charles Drews, MD, and his son Robert C. Drews, MD, of St. Louis.
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