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By Chad Petri Reporter

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Published: Tue, May 06, 2008 - 4:09 am
Last Updated: Tue, May 06, 2008 - 5:04 am

Chad Petri

6th grader Malcolm Meares is learning how to use his new closed circuit magnifier. He's taking this new toy home with him to help with school work. The expensive machine come free of charge and takes a burden off Malcolm’s family.

“Things like this make everything easier make life easier and make functioning easier because they're members of society just like us and they don't need to live at home with their mama for the rest of their life,” says Malcolm’s mother Jessica.

Sight savers of Alabama is screening 17 children with low vision at the Alabama school for the deaf and blind.

“Normally we would have to go out to each parent's house and it would take us at least 17 days to do that, so it's very efficient for us,” says Sight Savers President Jeff Haddox.

Hardware can be pretty expensive. A CCTV device can run you about $2000. This program is designed to kids in touch with the tools they need to be successful

“If the print can be made big enough a lot of them can read at the same reading speeds at their peers if the print is too small it's like us trying to read the telephone book nobody can read that quickly, so if you have to read slowly it slows you down,” says Optometrist Dr. Dawn DeCarlo.

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