Shubham Banerjee aged 13, from California has invented a braille printer expected to sell for around $400. And he has got venture capital funding to produce it! Soon you will be printing a braille message on greetings cards anytime you like. Check last week’s post.
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As, doctor knows your medical condition, response to treatment and education of patients and their families are essential in the treatment of bipolar disorder in adolescents and called “pediatric bipolar disorder” A report published on Oct. 2 in Southampton England finds stem cells in eyes. The discovery holds out hope for future treatment of some eye […]
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Re-posted from Public Radio International There’s a small town in Peru that likes to be known for its peaches, but now its known as well for the number of its men who go blind at fifty…
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Vision Loss and Personal Recovery welcomes its first guest blogger DeAnn Elliott DeAnn shares important information for seniors who may think they’re confused, but maybe it’s not that at all… Out of Sight, Out of Mind It happened again this morning. My teenager told me that I’d left the cream cheese in front of the toaster, instead of putting […]
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David Kingsbury is a guide at the MFA (Museum of Fine Arts) in Boston, which is surprising because he is blind. You might think that an art museum was the last place someone who had lost all his sight in mid-career would want to be! Why go somewhere where it’s completely visual after losing vision? […]
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NBC has a new sit-com, Growing Up Fisher, which airs on Tuesdays at 9.30pm. EST. It’s great to have a central character in a network comedy show who is blind. Every time someone with vision loss is given an active, lively personality on TV or in a movie, it makes the public a little more […]
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For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches From the World of the Blind how has a BARD catalog number.DB 77851. The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped says the book will be available for all readers by the end of next week.. It’s well worth reading
Read more "Update to Tuesday’s Post – Dreaming Big Dreams"This is an introduction to a new book and to its author. It is also an introduction to an extraordinary woman, who lost her sight due to Retinitis Pigmentosa, and to her partner. Together they make big dreams – very big dreams indeed – come true. Her story is a wake-up call to all of […]
Read more "Dreaming Big Dreams: A School for the Blind in Tibet"Vision Loss and Personal Recovery has been specially constructed for easy access by anyone who is adjusting to vision loss. Whether you are able to read clear or large print, or are using ZoomText, Magic, or a screen reader, the website is simple to use. So much of the first years of vision loss are […]
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Jean Courcy of Waterford Maine became legally blind in 2009. His sight got bad in about 2006, but he denied it to himself and everyone else. After several snowmobile events when he was blinded by the falling snow and became airborne before landing hard, he began to wake up to reality. At about this time […]
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