The 2012 Scottish Council on Visual Impairment Conference will take place this year on Tuesday 19th June at the Stirling Management Centre, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA. We are pleased to have two excellent keynote speakers in Professor Bal Dhillon, consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and Dennis Robertson, Scotland’s first blind MSP. [...]
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Top Chef Creates Braille Cookbook
CELEBRITY chef Tony Singh has teamed up with children from the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh to create a special Braille recipe book in celebration of National Braille Week 2012. The cookbook is being produced in Braille and also in large print to help raise awareness of alternative formats. Dishes such as Haggis Pakora, Blood Bay [...]
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Puppy SCOVI
At the Annual Conference in June Guide Dogs announced that they had named a golden labrador puppy “Scovi”. Currently Scovi is being puppy walked down south, but will return to the Dundee area as a working dog when fully trained. Here is the latest picture.