Repost from Austin Lighthouse: How to Overcome Social Isolation with a Visual Impairment

Two women talking outdoors, one is holding a cane

This is a comprehensive article from someone who really “gets it!” https://austinlighthouse.org/2025/12/04/how-to-overcome-social-isolation-with-a-visual-impairment/ There are headings such as: Understanding social isolation and visual impairment, Strategies for overcoming social isolation, and Exploring resources and support services, and more. It was published last December but I have only just been told about it. However well you have kept […]

A person new to sight loss or to acting independently has to cope with an incoming stream of sighted speech from the store clerk, medical assistant, or acquaintance who know little or nothing about low vision or blindness. Lots of everyday interactions become awkward or painful! “Sighted” speech which everyone who sees […]

At lower left a white cane is folded on a chair arm. In the background there is a .whitish blur

Speaking into the Void When you lose sight, you lose a big part of ordinary conversation. This is hard to recognize when your loss is new. There is so much confusion and change: But there’s a void in ordinary communication. Talking seems weirdly hollowed out! Of course it’s due to […]

Description: A woman with a white cane puts her credit card into the gloved hand of a cashier. People who see well (and maybe you in the past) use their eyes, faces, and bodies all the time to add to what they say. They make eye contact, turn towards you, or smile, but to you […]

This hot summer is not over yet, and there may still be travel, family visits, parties, or shopping for a bigger hat! It’s 4 years since the worst stage of the Pandemic yet the effects (and the virus) linger on. We who live with low vision or blindness were severely affected even though many of […]

All I have learned since falling over a parking block six months ago: It’s not so much the broken arm; it’s the staying home effect! Isolation has been the scourge of the pandemic especially for anyone with a disability, and isolation has affected many people with vision disability severely. The Covid situation is better now […]

I have been legally blind with the same little bit of vision for more than forty years. For many of those years self-advocacy seemed a good idea, but distant! It was my students at the Carroll Center for the Blind who realized that speaking up for what you need is a vital skill after you […]

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