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    NCBI’s Monthly Technology Podcast

    NCBI’s monthly technology podcast takes a look at what’s happening in the assistive technology area for people with sight loss in Ireland. Presented by Stuart Lawler, the podcast introduces you to not only some of the technological innovations and projects that are taking place around NCBI, but also what is happening with other organisations in Ireland and beyond. As always, we’d love to get your feedback and you can send email with comments or suggestions for future podcasts to technologypodcast@ncbi.ie.

    The Episodes

    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012

    Living with Sight Loss

    Orientation and Mobility

    Listen to an audio file where one long cane user talks about his experiences and the difference that the long cane has made to his life.

    Cooking Independently

    Like everyone else, people who are blind or vision impaired still enjoy to cook. Listen to their stories.

    Assistive Technology

    Listen to our audio recording where a person with vision impairment tells their story about how they use assistive technology in their everyday life.

    Irish Author, Roddy Doyle, at Fun Braille Day

    NCBI Library and Media Centre in partnership with St Josephs Centre for the Visually Impaired held their annual Fun Braille Reading Day. Our guest of honour was well known Irish author Roddy Doyle. Listen to an audio file of Roddy Doyle speaking at the event to find out what he has to say.

    NCBI News

    Listen to the NCBI News, NCBI’s quarterly external newsletter.

    Videos

    About NCBI

    Watch a short 2 minute video clip to find out more about NCBI.

    DVD on Reading with Your Child

    NCBI in collaboration with organisations working with people with vision impairment in France, Germany, Romania, Czech Republic and Slovakia were involved in a 3 year European funded Comenius Project, “EVEIL”, meaning “awakening” in French. The objective was to create a body of reflections and exchanges of good practice that will increase awareness of writing, language and concept development by young children with vision impairment.

    Ireland and Germany teamed up to gather impressions from parents of children with sight loss about the positives and negatives they have experienced when reading with their children. The final result produced a 20 minute DVD focusing on concept development and supporting reading experiences for children with vision impairment.

    How to Produce a Braille Book

    Braille continues to be very important and enables people who are blind to read and write independently. Watch our video about how NCBI Library and Media Service produces a braille book

    NCBI Corporate Video

    Audio Description

    Audio description is the name given to a narrative track that assists people who are blind or vision impaired when watching a television programme, a movie, or a visual arts performance. Audio description enriches the enjoyment of the plot or content of visual passages or moments in a programme, performance or film by a person who is blind or vision impaired.

    Watch to an example of audio description

    This example was made by our Media Centre for “About the House” – a building, architectural and renovation series presented by Duncan Stewart, with co-presenter Angie O’Brien and produced by Earth Horizon Productions. “About the House” is on weekly on RTÉ 1.

    NCBI TV Adverts

    Close Your Eyes
    Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh urges viewers to close their eyes to appreciate the words spoken in NCBI’s television ad – September 2011. Watch this advert

    Setanta Sport Advert
    Watch our Setanta Sports television advert that we ran on Setanta Sports TV Channel during 2011.

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