call
1-800-526-9909, or e-mail student_services@hadley.edu.The following announcements may be of interest to readers. The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped reserves the right to publish announcements selectively, as space permits. The items mentioned, however, are not part of the NLS program and their listings do not imply endorsement.
The Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation provides a toll-free helpline for non-emergency questions about the condition available from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday–Friday, Eastern Time. Call 1-800-941-4635 to speak to a registered nurse who is a certified diabetes educator. Typical questions concern blood glucose goals, nutrition, medication regimens, and finding a diabetes doctor or research center.
Hadley School for the Blind is offering
a new braille music course. Braille
Music Basics is designed for sighted or partially sighted individuals who
want to transcribe
print music into braille, teach braille music to students,
or support a braille-reading musician. The five-lesson class, which is free,
was created by musician and braille transcriber Ruth Rozen. Completion of
Braille Music Basics Diagnostic, which assesses a person's ability to read
print music and read and produce
uncontracted braille, is a prerequisite for
Braille Music Basics. For more information visit www.hadley.edu,
call
1-800-526-9909, or e-mail student_services@hadley.edu.
Regal Entertainment Group, which owns and operates the largest movie theater
chain in the United States, is providing descriptively narrated movies in its
theaters nationwide. Closed-captioning
and descriptive narration have been
added to Regal theaters with the rollout
of their digital cinema technology.
Show times for descriptive-video and closed-captioned movies are listed by
state at
www.regmovies.com/Theatres/Captioning-and-Descriptive-Video.
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