Author: Hannah Fairbairn

Dear Friends of Vision Loss and Personal Recovery, and When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes


What a year! I hope very much that over this holiday season you have found ways to relax, be in touch with close family and friends, and enjoy something uplifting. Please celebrate your own life and the lives of people you love and admire. Most of all keep moving towards greater independence and self-advocacy. Hannah

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A Covid Vaccine is Coming but Not a Miracle for Blindness, Repost from Bloomberg


Re-Post from Bloomberg: A Covid Vaccine Is Coming, But Not a Miracle for Blindness  Michael Schuman Vaccines Are Coming, But There’s No Such Hope for My Blindness It took scientists about 300 days to develop promising vaccines for the coronavirus. Meanwhile ancient ailments like degenerative loss of vision depend on age-old workarounds—like the cane I […]

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My Book Wins a Second Award


My book, When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: Vision Loss and Personal Recovery has just won a second award: Vision Rehab Therapy Publication award 2020 from my own profession! This book took fifteen years to complete with input from hundreds of people new to vision loss, fellow faculty at the Carroll Center for the Blind and […]

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Festive Food Gifts: Staying close While Keeping Your Distance, Guest Post by Deborah DeBord


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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