Social Connection Hour

As we attempt to outreach to the community and provide a safe place, we ask that you respect MAB members, guests, and speakers during Social Connection Hour. If you’re interested in connecting for this session, e-mail Todd at:
bozemanmab@gmail.com

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November 14, 2024 Social Connection Hour -Thank you, everybody for joining us for social connection hour. Today Topic: Hadley helps overview, with Marc Arneson, Director of Community outreach, leads us in a discussion about Hadley Helps and more.

October 31, 2024 Social Connection Hour -Thank you, everybody for joining us for social connection hour. Today Topic: Organizing closets, drawers, and more.

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October 24, 2024 Social Connection Hour -Thank you, everybody for joining us for social connection hour. Today Topic: Empowering Families Through Education.

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October 10, 2024 Social Connection Hour -Thank you, everybody for joining us for social connection hour. Today we are going to discuss, 'Preparing for Seasons and Changes'. As we move from seasons to season, there are many ways to prepare as changes come our way.  Whether your talking about weather changes (Spring, Fall, Winter, Spring, construction, etc.) or changes in our life, those too are changes.

Oct 3, 2024 -Social Connection Hour -Thank you so much for coming. This is another social connection hour. Today's topic is, "Organizing for the kitchen tips tricks and more". Today, we will find new and old ways to organize your kitchen from the pantry, refrigerator and more. Plus, Download the notes from Today's Discussion by clicking the link below.

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September 26, 2024 Social Connection Hour -Join us for social connection hour. Today we are going to discuss This year's MAB 2024 Convention Highlights and any thoughts about this Convention.

September 12, 2024 Social Connection Hour -Thank you, everybody for joining us for social connection hour. Today we are going to discuss new and old ways of keeping track of things you might need at the market, like grocery, cleaning supplies, school supplies, etc. No matter if it is low tech or high tech, there are ways to keep track of things you need to buy, so you won't forget.

August 29, 2024 Social Connection Hour -Thank you, everybody for joining us for social connection hour. Today we are going to discuss marking appliances and other bump dot hacks to ensure you can feel more independent. Todd will tell you about his experience being stubborn and not putting on dots. It might make you laugh or not.

August 15, 2024 Social Connection Hour -Thank you, everybody for joining us for social connection hour. Today we are talking with Kristen Smedley and Charlie Collins who have taken the charge of Thriving through blindness and has many skills and talents devoted to understanding what it takes to Thrive.

June 6, 2024 Social Connection Hour -Thank you, everybody for joining us for social connection hour. Today we are gonna be talking about telling our story.

May 30, 2024 Social Connection Hour -Greetings. Everybody. Thank you for joining social connection hour on this beautiful day. Today's topic is gonna be about camping outdoors and tips and tricks.

May 9, 2024 -Social Connection Hour -Thank you so much for coming. This is another social connection hour. Today's topic is, How to Engage with the Blind or Visually Impaired Person. And our guest Today, who's gonna talk about it is Linda.

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April 18, 2024 -Social Connection Hour -Thank you so much for coming. This is another social connection hour. Today's topic is, gonna be about audio description. And our guest Today, who's gonna talk about it is Phoenix.

April 4, 2024 -Social Connection Hour -Thank you so much for coming. We are here at social connection hour. We are gonna connect with Rebecca S. Meadows. Rebecca is a life coach. She is an experienced author.

March 28, 2024 -Social Connection Hour: Welcome everybody to another social connection hour. I'm your host, Todd Fahlstrom. Today we are joined by Utah reading radio; Guest speaker here, Faye, and Faye is gonna tell us all about the talking Book library.

Feb 15, 2024 Social Connection Hour -Today's presentation: Chrissie leading the discussion and all that added information for the wonderful discussion on Emergency preparedness. With anything, it is now up to you to take action and be responsible for what is given to you. Attached is the list we came up with that you can download. If you think things should be added to it, please email back and I will keep it updated as we progress and support each other.. Please send email to: Bozemanmab@gmail.com and indicate your name and if you are associated with this organization.

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Feb 1, 2024 social connection hour Today's presentation of Ed From Over Here Consulting talking about Accessible devices for the Blind, The Victor Reader. Please send email to: Bozemanmab@gmail.com and indicate your name and if you are associated with this organization.

January 18, 2024 social connection hour Today's presentation of rural meeting vision loss, a personal journey with Barbara. Please send email to: Bozemanmab@gmail.com and indicate your name and if you are associated with this organization.

January 4, 2024. -Todd will give a few examples and these goals are not to be confused with new year's resolutions. Since New Year resolutions can often be less than SMART goals, most don't go through the process of putting SMART to the test and achieving something that can be valued.

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December 7, 2023. interview with Loretta Roberts from En-Vision America, dives into managing medications and how you can take advantage of accessible RX labels. She will demo the apps, devices and help you understand what independence can look like managing your medications.


November 9, 2023. interview with Jennifer Lyon


November 2, 2023. Neva Fairchild aging, and Vision Loss