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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C Conversation with Haben Girma, Re-post from AFB American Foundation for the Blind. Haben is a disability rights lawyer, author and speaker, who gained a Harvard law degree despite blindness and deafness. In this interview she speaks of the necessity of building a team of friends. I have paired this interview with the Joe Buizon […]
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Referred to in my new book When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: Vision Loss and Personal Recovery, Chapter 12, “Continuing at Your Work.” There is more expert thinking from Joe in Chapter 1, “What About Your Job?” and Chapter 12, “Can You Keep Your Job?” Background with photo An Interview with Joe Buizon, Employment Services […]
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Robin E. Hatch RN was previously nurse at both the Carroll Center for the Blind and the Perkins School. Since retirement she herself has suffered from auto immune retinopathy. General Advice from Robin Local radio and TV stations are putting out daily updates on the spread of the coronavirus for our area and probably yours […]
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(Referred to in Chapter 7: “Get the Guessing Out of Medications” Linda miller RN, is the nurse at the Carroll Center for the Blind. Some clients there have diabetic retinopathy, and others have a complex regimen of pills. Diabetic Retinopathy Linda: For people dealing with diabetic retinopathy who have to take and test their blood […]
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Guest post by Jennifer Harnish. Dr. Harnish is the Director of Rehabilitation services at the Carroll Center for the Blind with a doctorate in clinical psychology. She is an advocate for policy, training, and therapeutic support for those with visual impairments. Jennifer has been legally blind since 1997 from Retinitis Pigmentosa. She is the mother […]
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(Re-post from The Telegraph newspaper, UK.) Last Thursday a 29-year old with Retinitis pigmentosa had DNA delivered to his eyes in the hope that this will affect the progress of this blinding disease. Retinitis pigmentosa is a progressive disease which may slowly blind sufferers over decades.
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The Amazon Echo is a new kind of smart computer, that is controlled by your voice. It was launched in 2014 but has now really caught on. It is housed in a black tube. You use it by talking to it, like Siri on an iPhone. The word to wake the Echo, it’s called the […]
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Christian was 19 and had a baseball scholarship at a Community College in Oklahoma. Then his vision began to have spots in it, rapidly got worse and he was declared legally blind. Here is the link to Part 1 of his journal through vision loss if you missed it. I was very interested in a […]
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Hi everyone, I am a “domestic goddess who loves to cook. I have been legally blind since I was 10 years old. I started cooking when I was young. I am not so much in to gourmet dishes as I am in to quick, easy, creative, and tasty meals. I hope to share ideas with […]
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