Villages VIP Support Group
We are a support group for the visually impaired and blind that provides socialization and education to our members and their families.
One group with 2 locations:
Villages VIP meets monthly at Bridgeport and Ezell Rec Centers. The Ezell group met at 1 PM on Monday, September 16th. The Bridgeport group met at Bridgeport Rec Center on Thursday, October 3 @ 1 PM.
Up next is the group meeting at Ezell on Monday, October 21 @1 PM.
White Cane Awareness Day is actually October 15. The walk in The Villages scheduled for October 11th has been canceled. There could be lots of debris cleanup. We will attempt to reschedule based on town square availability.
There are monthly newsletters for both meeting locations on the Newsletter and Audio page.
Bob Shefper from the Magnification Company presented information on the newest advances in technology for the vision impaired. 10.21.24
John Corneille was the guest presenter at Ezell on September 16.
You can listen to these recording on the audio page.
Check out our calendar, upcoming outings, newsletter with audio recordings of the newsletter, and guest speakers from meetings at both locations. There are more links on the Resources page.
There are new audio recordings each month: There is a new page called Audio Potpourri. Just interesting short audio files. The latest is on an app called BARD for reading audio books on your smart phone. Two more audio files were added about Talking Books.
Lisa from New Vision talked about nutrition on July 15.Christy Westlund from the Division of Blind Services presented on June 17, and May 20 the topic was on hearing loss, the April 15 presentation featuring Community Watch and the April 16 Daily Sun article about Villages VIP and Scott Meehan. Plus Ben Shaberman talked about degenerative retina diseases and research back on February 24. Look under Audio.
Here is info in a PDF on audio description events coming up at concerts in September.
Plus the VIP Declaration of Independence with audio.
Older content was getting outdated and cluttered, so I made a few housekeeping changes.