Beep Baseball

FREE to attend and a pizza lunch will be provided.

10:00 am: Registration
10:30 am: Practice drills and game
12:00 – 12:30 pm: Pizza lunch with the baseball team

Vision Forward is excited to offer Beep Baseball this spring, a collaborative event with the MSOE Men’s Baseball Team and area school districts, for youth ages 5-18 with vision loss.

This event gives students an opportunity to play baseball in an accessible way, be physically active and have fun! The MSOE baseball players will work hands on with the youth to teach them the fundamentals of baseball, while using adaptive equipment like baseballs and bases that beep.

Please print photo/video release form below, sign and bring to the event.

https://vision-forward.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024-BB-Photo-Release-Form.pdf

Register by Thursday, April 25, 2024
For more information and to register, contact: Elle Henderson, Volunteer & Events Coordinator at 414-615-0161 or ehenderson@vision-forward.org

How to Choose Technology

With all of the options for assistive technology for people with a visual impairment out there at the moment, you would think it would be easy to find a device which works for you. All you want to be able to do is read the paper, that should be easy!

Unfortunately that isn’t always the case. When choosing technology to meet your needs there are a lot of questions that you need to ask, starting from the ground up. So you want to be able to read the paper? What paper?, how large is the paper?, what parts do you want to read?, do you want to read it yourself or have it read to you?, what is your comfort operating technology?, does your vision fluctuate on a daily basis?, are there other things you would like to be able to read also?, where do you want to read the paper? The list goes on!

Selecting an appropriate technology to meet your goals requires taking a holistic approach which considers not only the task at hand and the devices designed to assist with that task, but also your personal circumstances, psychological makeup and motivation. So, maybe not so easy after all!

The good news is that that is why assistive technology professionals exist. We can help guide you through the questions that you should be asking yourself, and then demonstrate the technologies which meet the answers to those questions. Through this process we aim to provide the best match between user and technology, helping to ensure that when a person takes a technology home, it meets all the needs which they envisioned it would.

There is very likely a technology available out there that will allow you to meet your goals. The only thing you have to do now is find it! Let us at Vision Forward help you out with that. Call us at 414-615-0103 to discuss all things assistive technology, or reach out via email at infocus@vision-forward.org.