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whose personal and professional activities have significantly
promoted and improved quality of life for people with visual
impairments and deafblindness.
Ms. Lacy serves as the Director of the Alabama Instructional
Resource Center (AIRCB). The AIRCB is a statewide provider of
special media materials for visually impaired students in local
education agencies and rehabilitation programs. The center has
emerged as a full production facility with specialized equipment to
produce braille, enlarge textbooks in color and black and white, and
duplicate recorded textbooks. The center has two Nemeth Code
certified braillist on staff who can produce high level math and
science textbooks in braille as well as tactile graphics. The primary
focus is getting large print and braille textbooks into the hands of
students served by the AIRCB at the same time as their sighted
peers.
The AIRCB has also focused its fiscal resources by
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