by Alice Turner

{Editor's note: This article was published in the fall, 2016 Shared Visions, newsleter of the Vista Center for the Blind and visually impaired.}

The Silicon Valley Council of the Blind, a chapter of the California Council of the Blind, is now accepting applications for the Barbara Rhodes Adaptive
Technology Grant. Launched in 2010, this program annually awards a grant of up to $1000 to a blind or visually impaired person, age 16 or older, living
in Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz or San Benito Counties, who can best demonstrate the need for adaptive technology that will improve his/her quality
of life or advance his/her educational and/or employment opportunities.

Examples of items that the grant might fund include, but are not limited to: hearing aids and audiologist fees, mobility aids (like white canes) and payment
for mobility instructors, adapted mobile devices, adapted computers, repair of adapted computers, magnifying systems, medical aids, and bar code readers.

For more info about the Barbara Rhodes Technology Grant, call 888-652-5333 or email svcb@onebox.com. You may download an application form by visiting the
web site www.svcb.cc. All applications must be postmarked by Tuesday, January 31, 2017 to be considered by the Tech Grant committee.