[acb-hsp] [acb-l] educational video for medical facilities

[peter altschul]

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From: "Rita Kersh" <hoosierrita at comcast.net
Subject: [acb-l] educational video for medical facilities
Date sent: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:44:47 -0400

A video for accessibility in medical and other settings

"How Can I Help You?"

Last year, client members of the Advocacy Committee of the New 
Hampshire
Association for the Blind shared personal stories about 
difficulties
they had experienced as persons who are blind or visually 
impaired in
hospitals and other medical practices and facilities.

The group asked:
"How can we change things?"
"How can we train hospital staff so we can have the same access 
as
sighted people?"

The decision was made: "Lets make a training video."

With this goal, the committee got serious, deciding what 
situations
would best illustrate the problems blind and visually impaired 
people
often face while getting medical care.

The committee met with Concord Hospital and discovered they had a
partner with a strong interest - and the ability to produce 
training
videos.  The Committee wrote the script, acted the roles, and 
trained
hospital staff and volunteers, the hospital filmed the video.

Partnering also with the New Hampshire Hospital Association, the 
NH
Medical Society, and the Home Care Association of NH - total 
memberships
of these partners total over 2,000 medical practices in New 
Hampshire
alone - this video is now available to all.

To Watch and\or Download: Go to: www.sightcenter.org - on the 
front
page menu open Resources Tab, select Video Links, read the story 
of how
the video came about and select Watch or Download.

You can also see it on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlP7mCr3LmQ

It is the hope of the New Hampshire Association for the Blind, 
that any
organization that wishes may use this video for staff and 
volunteer
training purposes and to promote accessibility for persons who 
are blind
and visually impaired.  We also encourage others to create 
similar tools
and disseminate them broadly.

Thank you,
George Theriault
President & CEO
New Hampshire Association for the Blind