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Video clips on blindness a series daily living skills for the blind and visually impaired
presented in conjunction with the Washington State School for the Blind. The following
clip features Becky Sherman of the Department of Services for the Blind. Becky teaches daily
living skills to blind and visually impaired children and adults. This clip explains how
to safely use a microwave oven. This microwave has Braille on it. We set it
as simply as possible You mark time and press the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and
0. There are also lots of other controls on this
particular microwave that maybe a student wouldn’t use, a child wouldn’t use. But,
maybe an adult would. So you would just mark what you need. A child needs time.
Um.. once we learn how to set a microwave. We learn that we do not start it without something
in it. Then we move onto what is inside the microwave and what it looks like inside.
Open the door, check the width and the depth and then you find that there is a turn table.
The turntable moves your food when the microwave is operating to more evenly heat your food.
And, that simply is all there is to a microwave. Now, we have a bowl here that we want to heat
up some mash potatoes or something in and we have it sitting here we have it out of
the refrigerator and we open the door and we put the food in, the bowl in the middle
of the turnstile and try to center your bowl. Close the door, and set your time, by pressing
time and the time you want. Maybe its two minutes so you press two, zero, zero and then
you would press start. It will stop in two minutes.
Push clear if you want to take it out sooner than two minutes. Press the button to open
the door. Now your bowl may be hot so you want to check for temperature. If the top
edges aren’t hot you can pick it up and pull it out.
If the bowl is too hot, put it back in and take out one of your oven mitts- “oveglove”
put it on, take out your bowl and you’re protected from the heat of the bowl. Set it
down, shut the door. More video clips on blindness clips are available
from the Washington State School for the Blind at www.wssb.wa.gov.