Be My A Eye uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) to announce what is on a countertop, desk, or patio in wonderfully full detail, but it makes mistakes! Here’s a photo of my deck and here’s the description “The picture shows a cozy outdoor deck area of a house. The house has a cream-colored siding with […]
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My Heart is Not Blind: On Blindness and Perception by Michael Nye was published in 2019. It contains 45 in-depth conversations with people who live with low vision or blindness. The interviews are full of revelations about the many ways blind people use perception. They are about to be launched in a weekly podcast. Here […]
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There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness by M Leona Godin was published this month. The book is also available on Amazon Kindle and Audible. (If you are searching using audio, the title There Plant Eyes is “there” as in here and there, not “their” as in their eyes and my eyes.) […]
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Sylvia and her team have just launched the “Time To Be Bold” website (www.timetobebold.org) to help everyone over 55 with sight loss find services and rehab training. She also directs the Vision Specialist Graduate Certificate Program. Hannah: How old were you when your parents knew you had a vision problem? Sylvia: My parents noticed very […]
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Profiles of 46 people who live with blindness or low vision. An Interview with Michael Nye, the Author Michael: “There is more misunderstanding about the nature of blindness than of any other group I have studied. It’s almost criminal!” Michael Nye took nearly seven years to record long interviews with visually impaired and blind […]
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Amy Osvold is a vision rehab specialist in North Dakota. What sets her apart from most other vision rehab teachers is the size of her district – the western half of North Dakota about 35,000 square miles! The drive to a consumer’s home may be four hours or more in each direction. At present it’s […]
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2021 has arrived and will be better! Nine months of semi-isolation, voices muffled by masks, and fewer offers of assistance in public has been particularly tough on people living with loss of vision. Hopefully the pandemic is in the departure lounge and better times will come. Over the next few months I will interview three […]
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She’s a chess champion who can barely see the board. Repost from the New York Times Dec. 24, 2020. Jessica is three times US Blind Chess Champion. She has just a little usable vision. She has to touch the chess pieces to identify them. This can be a problem! (The New York Times allows five […]
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There is an extra layer of consideration these days before you give a festive food gift. In the past, did you share your famous minty choco-chip cookies? Your remarkable banana-nut bread? Your yummy curried yogurt dip for veggies? However can we do that during these days of limited physical contact? How ‘bout we rustle up […]
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Larry Johnson is the author of seven books including a collection of his popular commentaries published in the San Antonio Express-News. In 2017 he received the Texas Governor’s Trophy for Outstanding Service advocating for persons with disabilities. If you are a person over 65 like me, I’m going to share some rather startling and really […]
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