correct device. Also, new Veterans Health Care System. computers were added to a Tiffany Moore, from our Living computer training lab so there Skills Department, moved into are now Chrome, HP for the CAT Department after windows, and iMac computers, as training with Tim. We welcome well as MacBook and her to her new position. Chromebooks. We sincerely Living Skills hope that this helps our Veterans understand the best technology Department to meet their individual goals. Adding these allows us to have all Just like the CAT Department, the the platforms available for Living Skills Department got an assessing and beginning overhaul in their computers as instruction immediately. well for Keyboarding Classes. Their keyboarding computers CAT Specialists also participated were cleaned up and JAWS, in weekly school” Zoomtext and Guide software “summer classes with Tim Sniffen on was added to each of them so computers for a couple months now the computers are identical. before he retired. This was an This allows for the availability of important process for building multiple computers to be used at our CAT Specialists’ knowledge any one time. and ensuring that they stayed current on devices. All Blind Living Skills also received all new Rehabilitation Specialists took pots and pans for the kitchens. weekly iPhone classes from Robin The Veterans cooked up a Sniffen at the same time. This is wonderful fish fry this year as part of our push to integrate the well as used their skills preparing iPhone and iPad further into food for Community Based other skills areas. Tim Sniffen Instruction Days, the Veteran retired, and Robin Sniffen was Thanksgiving Feast, and Holiday promoted to be one of the VIST cook-outs. A bulletin board with Coordinators for our Gulf Coast large visuals was created in the
correct device. Also, new computers were added to a computer training lab so there are now Chrome, HP for windows, and iMac computers, as well as MacBook and Chromebooks. We sincerely hope that this helps our Veterans understand the best technology to meet their individual goals. Adding these allows us to have all the platforms available for assessing and beginning instruction immediately. CAT Specialists also participated in weekly “summer school” classes with Tim Sniffen on computers for a couple months before he retired. This was an important process for building our CAT Specialists’ knowledge and ensuring that they stayed current on devices. All Blind Rehabilitation Specialists took weekly iPhone classes from Robin Sniffen at the same time. This is part of our push to integrate the iPhone and iPad further into other skills areas. Tim Sniffen retired, and Robin Sniffen was promoted to be one of the VIST Coordinators for our Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System. Tiffany Moore, from our Living Skills Department, moved into the CAT Department after training with Tim. We welcome her to her new position. Living Skills Department Just like the CAT Department, the Living Skills Department got an overhaul in their computers as well for Keyboarding Classes. Their keyboarding computers were cleaned up and JAWS, Zoomtext and Guide software was added to each of them so now the computers are identical. This allows for the availability of multiple computers to be used at any one time. Living Skills also received all new pots and pans for the kitchens. The Veterans cooked up a wonderful fish fry this year as well as used their skills preparing food for Community Based Instruction Days, the Veteran Thanksgiving Feast, and Holiday cook-outs. A bulletin board with large visuals was created in the
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