Invisible Sky NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille

NOREEN GRICE BRINGS HOPE TO VISUALLY IMPAIRED:
Simply Consistent , Inc., is Proud to represent Noreen Grice who coauthored a new book from Nasa Touch the Invisible Sky.

Below is an excerpt from an article explaining Noreen's impact on those who thought they could not.....

Chelsea Cook, a high school student in Newport News, Virginia, got her family to drive four hours to Baltimore for the new book's unveiling. She says Noreen Grice's astronomy books are "really interesting, you know, the visuals are easy to read, and they're just cool to look at."

Cook says she has enough vision to see a full moon, but not stars. Still, she wants to study astro chemistry and astrophysics. And she's fascinated by the idea of space exploration.

Her ultimate career goal? To become the first "blind astronaut." It will be "a lot to work towards," she says, "but I think it's possible."

Grice is a coauthor of Touch the Invisible Sky, a new book from NASA that is available in schools for the blind, libraries and museums. The 60-page book features 28 color photos taken by Hubble and other NASA telescopes. Each image is also illustrated with textures like raised lines and dots. These patterns represent shapes and other features.

Grice has published five braille books on astronomy. They fill what was once a black hole in braille publishing. Translating pictures into braille is costly, so not many science books for blind people include raised images and graphics. Grice says she wants to put these images at blind students' fingertips "so that they can make pictures in their minds' eyes, and maybe discover things that other people didn't notice."

Simply Consistent, Inc. is pleased to announce that Astronomy educator and Accessibility Specialist, Noreen Grice, also of You Can Do Astronomy, was at the Perkins School for the Blind on February 2nd teaching instructors of the visually impaired how to make astronomy accessible.
Most of the instructors had used Grice's first book Touch the Stars with their students. Grice showed the instructors different ways to teach topics such as, moon phases, seasons, star patterns and the solar system.
If you would like to donate something to help Noreen on her mission please go to the following link and scroll down to the donation button.
http://simplyconsistent.com/non-profit/you-can-do-astronomy
If you wish you to hire Noreen Grice to facilitate workshops or speak at a conference, contact Simply Consistent, Inc. at http://www.simplyconsistent.com/contacts.php

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[Daciawolf]

Noreen is a pioneer in the field of educating the underserved community about astronomy. I have all of her books and use them to teach my sighted students as well. The universal design that Noreen utilizes in her books makes astronomy accessible to everyone.

[newyorkscientist]

Noreen Grice and her ability to encourage the disabled as well as the non disabled child, to believe they can be whomever they chose to be is indeed something we need more of in our school curriculums and daily lives. The story of the blind student believing she will be an astrounaut is something I do not doubt and credit Noreen's excellent work for.

[VisionlessOne]

is there a braille book of the nasa Hubble Space Images? I really would like to find one. Not everything would lend itself to braille, but a lot will nonetheless.

[olives639]

That's fine for you to personally be thankful for, but not everyone is religious nor do they want to be. No need to insist others follow your religion or that they "have" to be thankful to a deity. Would you want someone to force you into a different religion or no religion?

[senistar01]

I'm appreciate the posting of this video. It's very inspiring. My only problem with these type of video documentaries is that offten times God is not mentioned or given any credit for any of it. People have to learn to be thankful to Allah (God) for everything, and expecialy thier gifts of talent.