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Vision Loss and Personal Recovery

Book: Updates and Comments

Updates and comments to When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes Amendment Chapter 2: “Finances, Employment, and Housing” The FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) does not mandate compensation by the employer during the 12 weeks leave of absence. Some employers offer some pay as part of the benefits they offer, but others do not. VisionAware.org is […]

Book: How to read on Google Play Books

First you buy the book on a laptop or desktop computer from Google Play Books: When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: Vision Loss and Personal Recovery – $15.63 Or you can apply for a copy free of charge by filling out this simple form. On your phone or tablet go to the Apple app store […]

Starting this spring Smithsonian Museums (and the Zoo) in Washington DC will partner with AIRA to revolutionize the way people with vision loss experience museums. (For more about AIRA go to: “Distant Eyes.”)

Hair-Sized Stent Offers Hope to Glaucoma Patients

Re-Post from CBS News, January 10, 2018 Hair-sized stent offers hope for patients suffering from glaucoma …just approved by the FDA, Food & Drug Administration.

Re-post from the New York Times. Alexa is the artificial intelligence voice of the Amazon Echo, and Cortana is the Microsoft equivalent. Now these two artificial voices are talking to each other…and so are their bosses! Here is the link to the article.

Here in the northeast spring only sprang recently and still isn’t too sure about it. Fashion forward folks start on their spring wardrobe in March or even February, but now is a good time for the rest of us. There are spring sales around this week and next. Call one or two favorite stores, or […]

(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.

Blind Theatergoer’s ‘Hamilton’ Lawsuit Aims Spotlight On Broadway Accessibility. (A re-post from National Public Radio.) A blind Theater-goer decides it’s time Broadway shows had audio description.

Vision loss and Personal Recovery

WHEN YOU CAN'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES

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Vision Loss and Personal Recovery

Book: Updates and Comments

Book: How to read on Google Play Books

Museums Partner with AIRA to Improve Access, Re-Post

Hair-Sized Stent Offers Hope to Glaucoma Patients

‘Cortana, Open Alexa,’ Amazon Says. And Microsoft Agrees.

Clothes-Buying One-o-One (actually two)

Blind British man in world’s first operation to deliver modified DNA to his eyes.

Blind Theatergoer’s ‘Hamilton’ Lawsuit Aims Spotlight On Broadway