Living well with diabetes webinar

[Guest guest]

I saw this on a tech list. It's not just about Prodigy if I'm reading it

correctly though.

*announcement follows:

Prodigy® provides Accessible Diabetes Products

and instruction material on how to Live Healthy with Blindness and Diabetes

Prodigy® continues to serve more of our vision impaired friends with our NFB

and AFB Access Award winning Prodigy Voice® meter and

test strips, as well as the accessible insulin delivery device; the Prodigy

Count-a-doseT.

In addition to our accessible products, Prodigy® realizes that Education is Key

for healthy living, so we have added to our website:

a.. The NFB audio book, " Bridging the Gap, Living with Blindness and

Diabetes, " authored by 19 experts in the blindness and

diabetes field.

b.. The new training " Tools and Techniques for Managing Diabetes

Non-Visually " . Produced and directed by renowned Blind

Industries and Services of land (BISM). This training demonstrates the

skills for living well with diabetes using non-visual

techniques. Instruction is presented by Lynn Baillif, MS, RD, LDN, CDE, a blind

diabetes educator, and includes a demonstration on

how to use the Prodigy Voice® and Prodigy Count-a-doseT products.

c.. The article due out in consumer diabetes magazines this spring, " Adaptive

Blood Glucose Monitoring with Vision Loss, "

authored by Debra Sokol-McKay, MS, CVRT, CLVT, CDE, OTR/L, SCLV.

a.. Prodigy adds diabetes educator Dave Joffe, BSPharm, CDE, CPT, Clinical

Associate Professor College of Pharmacy University of

Florida, to the Prodigy® Team.

b.. Get ready . . . on June 9, 2011 at 12:00 pm EST, Hadley School for the

Blind will host a " Living Well with Diabetes " webinar.

Key speakers include:

· Margaret E. Cleary, Rehabilitation Nurse Consultant

· Naomi Tuttle, Instructor The Hadley School for the Blind

· Jerry Munden, Vice President of Business Development Prodigy Diabetes

Care, LLC

To sign up for a Seminar@Hadley:

1) Go to www.hadley.edu

2) Click on " Seminars@Hadley "

3) Click on " Registration " and enter required information

4) You'll receive an email with your " password "

5) On the day of the seminar, Login at " Registered Participants Login " with:

-User name: first name & last name

-Your Password

6) You may have to download a plug-in before signing on

7) When you enter, to use your mike, simply hold down the control key and speak.

Registration starts on the day the webinar is advertised on the Hadley home

page, usually about 2 weeks before the webinar is

presented. If you do not wish to ask questions, you can listen or text questions

via the chat room. If you can't attend, all

webinars are archived and can be found at www.hadley.edu under the heading:

" Past Seminars. " Anyone can download or stream them.

Hope to see you there!

Prodigy® makes the helpful training aids available to all Prodigy® customers,

for free, at www.prodigymeter.com in the Low Vision

Center. Also, keep up-to-date on Prodigy® Announcements: Click here and

subscribe to our Low Vision and Blind Organization News

Room!

Prodigy® continues to work to provide new, accessible products to fit the needs

of all diabetics, especially the blind and low

vision. Please be advised that the release dates for the Prodigy IQ PumpT and

the Prodigy IQ PatchT has not been set. As soon as the

dates are announced, your organizations will be the first to know.

** Use Prodigy® Products and Help Us to Help You **

Please contact me at or Bernadette s at

(bandbjacobs@...) with any questions you may have.

Here to Help,

Jerry Munden (Living well with Type I for 30+ years ... and you can too!)

Vice President of Business Development

Prodigy Diabetes Care, LLC

Phone: Fax:

Email: jerrym@...

Web: www.prodigymeter.com

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