Tactiles for Blind Children Tell a Powerful Story
This winter, ABLE’s Tactile and Production Manager, Matt Scholtes, designed a tactile book of snowflake shapes for an adventure nature field trip for the…
This winter, ABLE’s Tactile and Production Manager, Matt Scholtes, designed a tactile book of snowflake shapes for an adventure nature field trip for the…
Peanut of Blind Faith Farm is the true story of a tiny blind lamb who was born on a farm in Wisconsin. Peanut faced…
REACH Names Audio & Braille Literacy Enhancement as 2018 Charitable Giving Recipient
Read More about REACH Names ABLE as 2018 Charitable Giving RecipientOn September 29, 2015, we cut the ribbon for our new state-of-the-art ABLE Sound Center. Two years later we are going strong! Over fifty…
Read More about ABLE Sound Center Going Great!In July we put out a special plea for your help in funding our much needed high speed embosser and our new tactile embosser,…
Read More about It’s All Because of You!When? Tuesday, May 1, 2018 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Where? Italian Conference Center, Milwaukee Well, yes, winter hasn’t arrived yet. But spring will…
Read More about Save the Date! ABLE Annual LuncheonDozens of students from Milwaukee Public Schools and other area schools joined community members from the Milwaukee area at the Milwaukee County Courthouse in…
Read More about Celebrating Another High-Spirited White Cane Day!Many people who are blind or visually impaired love to cook, and ABLE can help make the process a little easier. We are happy…
Read More about What’s Cooking?Eating out can be a pleasurable alternative! If you’re blind or visually impaired, though, perusing a menu can be challenging. It may require asking…
Read More about Not Up For Cooking Tonight?Many thanks to the employees of the Gordon Flesch Company for nominating ABLE to be a recipient of a generous donation through their Charitable…
Read More about Thank You!We are very grateful to the many donors that make our work possible. Without you, our doors would be closed. We would like to…
Read More about We Couldn’t Do It Without Our Generous DonorsOur volunteer braille team has been working hard the last few years not only producing professional braille for our recipients but also continuing braille…
Read More about It’s never too late to learn new things!!Cheryl Esquilin has been brailling for ABLE since 2011 after taking a rigorous braille course. For a while Cheryl would volunteer at the office…
Read More about Do volunteers have to live locally? Absolutely not!Besides keeping our studio and long-distance readers busy, we still keep our home readers busy with requests from individuals locally and throughout the country…
Read More about But Many Volunteers Do Live LocallyTactiles are raised line drawings that are especially critical in STEM classes (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Thanks to the Forest County Potawatomi Foundation,…
Read More about Pictures Are for Blind People, Too!