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Tag: William Penrod

Graduate student whips up a sweet recipe to teach children about visual disabilities

February 26, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Elizabeth Hipskind stood in front of a room full of TVIs – teachers of the visually impaired – wearing an apron and prepared with a plastic tub of moist baby-wipes. Hipskind had come to the February conference of the Illinois Association for

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Visual Disabilities program students try serving as guide dog leaders – and dogs

May 15, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, SEED

Visitors to Graham Hall, whether inside or outside, are familiar with the site of students wearing sleep-shade blindfolds and navigating hallways, stairwells and sidewalks with white canes. For two days each year, however, those canes are replaced with human beings – playing

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