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President Donna with Guest Speaker John May<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John May, from The Talking Newspapers Lichfield & District gave members an interesting talk about the work carried out by his Company.\u00a0 Founded in 1981 the aim was to provide the best possible news & entertainment service to the blind and visually impaired.\u00a0 This was achieved in the form of 90 minutes of extracts from the Lichfield Mercury every week.\u00a0 Now, with the digital technology available,\u00a0they can send out 10 hours of news, entertainment and information and hope to extend this to 20 hours in the near future.<\/p>\n

Digital Technology has also allowed them to focus on blind and visually impaired children, as well as other children with reading difficulties such as Dyslexia.\u00a0 School curriculums can be read onto memory sticks for these children to access.\u00a0 However sadly, for some of these children, blindness is not their only disability, as many of them have other crippling problems which mean they do not have the dexterity to manage the controls in digital media players.\u00a0 Talking Newspapers have designed a new machine, a box with very large buttons that can be controlled with a nudge.\u00a0 These boxes cost from \u00a325.00 to \u00a350.00.\u00a0Part of the proceeds from our Quiz Night on 8th<\/sup> June, at Curborough Community Centre will go towards funding these boxes.\u00a0 President Donna thanks John for a most enlightening talk and presented him with a small gift as a token of our appreciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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