Tzipporah.Benavraham@f608.n107.z1.fidonet.org (Tzipporah Benavraham) (10/26/90)
Index Number: 11304 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] Hi. I met a blind lonely kid on KIDSNET of bitnet. She lives in Virginia. Her teacher told me she is mentally retarded (mildly) and when she was 5 years old placed crazy glue on her eyes trying to imitate her sister putting in contact lenses. Corneal damage! She is 14 now and in Jr High and her teacher wants her to use the computer for language arts skills. I wonder, If I got the bitnet/internet address for her, would any of you be willing to send her email? She is so lonely and lives with her old grandma. Hardly an exciting life. But she did write me a letter that she wears Nike Lightening shoes and jeans and was happy to have a big sister writing to her. It was exciting to hav the mail. For the first time she WANTS to write. Also, they have Texas Instrument computers. and one TRS80 model 4D. They were donations. I have used both in the past and have some ideas for her. But does anyone there have any ideas for her for low vision applications for these? Thanks. Hope to hear from you soon. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!107!608!Tzipporah.Benavraham Internet: Tzipporah.Benavraham@f608.n107.z1.fidonet.org