{"id":156,"date":"2010-07-08T16:49:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/get-into-freds-head-at-american-printing-house-for-the-blind\/"},"modified":"2010-07-08T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T20:49:10","slug":"get-into-freds-head-at-american-printing-house-for-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/get-into-freds-head-at-american-printing-house-for-the-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Get into Fred&rsquo;s Head at American Printing House for the Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite sites for info on everything from adjusting to vision loss to tech tips to cane travel is the&#160; site <a href=\"http:\/\/aph.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">aph.org<\/a>.&#160; Not only do they offer some great products and services, they also have a great blog, called Fred&#8217;s Head.&#160; Here&#8217;s the blurb right off the home page: <\/p>\n<p>The Fred&#8217;s Head blog contains tips, techniques, tutorials, in-depth articles, and resources for and by blind or visually impaired people. Fred&#8217;s Head is offered by the American Printing House for the Blind.&#160; Fred&#8217;s Head is named after the legendary Fred Gissoni of APH&#8217;s Customer Relations Department.<\/p>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The Fred&#8217;s Head blog is superbly&#160;&#160; managed by Michael McCarty,&#160; who is social media coordinator for APH.&#160; He is also President of the Kentucky Council of the Blind, and has provided ADA training to TARC, MV Transportation, Yellow Cab and a host of other local businesses. He is a dog guide user and co-host of a weekly radio program that focuses on issues faced by the blind and visually impaired from local, state and national levels.&#160; Michael has also written many of the articles you\u2019ll find on the site.<\/p>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the APH home page:&#160; h<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aph.org\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can follow on Twitter:&#160;&#160; (@fredshead) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/fredshead\">www.twitter.com\/fredshead<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the blog:&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredshead.info\/\">www.fredshead.info\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find a treasure trove of articles and tips written for people who are blind, by people who are blind or visually impaired.&#160; You&#8217;ll even find some of my own articles there.&#160; Here&#8217;s the link to the latest, on what to consider when buying a video magnifier:&#160; <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredshead.info\/2010\/07\/what-to-consider-when-buying-cctv.html \">Laura&#8217;s article on APH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>There are literally hundreds of articles to browse through, so enjoy.&#160; If you or someone you love is coping with vision loss, American Printing House for the Blind and the Fred&#8217;s Head blog are great resources from which to learn and grow.<\/p>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>LL&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite sites for info on everything from adjusting to vision loss to tech tips to cane travel is the&#160; site <a href=\"http:\/\/aph.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">aph.org<\/a>.&#160; Not&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/get-into-freds-head-at-american-printing-house-for-the-blind\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get into Fred&rsquo;s Head at American Printing House for the Blind<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-articles","category-social-media-mania","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}