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Visually impaired runners beat the regular Olympians in the 1500 meters!

Four Paralympian runners, all visually impaired, finished ahead of the gold medalist at the August Olympics! They were running the 1500 meters. A re-post from the Huffington Post

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 […]

Guest Blogger Jan Peccarrari Visits a Farmers’ Market and a Plant Outlet to make the most of her small balcony. This was written last year, but it was late for finding the best plants. Now the weather is still cold in New England , but you can buy the plants and set up your balcony, […]

by Brian J. Coppola On November 24, 2014, I picked up my medication at my local Walmart pharmacy. For the first time I swiped the special label on the package using the ScripTalk Patient station. This type of label is called a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) label and has a tiny chip in it. The […]

Here is the latest information listing all the health insurance companies that now offer the ScripTalk labels from their mail order pharmacies. Some pharmacies also provide ScripTalk at local pharmacies. (Check out the information below the list.) Unfortunately Walgreen’s developed their own talking prescription device. It is much less efficient in all ways. The Scrip […]

During my time at the Carroll Center I explored the possibility of moving to Boston more permanently. When I signed my apartment lease, I remember being extremely anxious about it. Things moved more and more rapidly as my end date at the Carroll Center approached. Somehow, it unbelievably all worked out. While I worked hard […]

Written by IlanaRei Goss I’m currently working full time as a psychotherapist for the LGBT community in Jamaica Plain (a suburb of Boston Mass). I’m also a writer, knitter and cook. Going blind has not changed the big picture of my life, just the small details of how to do certain things, and I hope […]

This is the season for parties, and if your loss of vision is serious enough not to recognize other people easily, you need to plan ahead. A party with everyone moving from place to place can be enjoyable or it can be hard work. The more you know about the guests and the set up […]

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 […]

Vision loss and Personal Recovery

WHEN YOU CAN'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES

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When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes

Speak Up Skills

Vision Loss and Personal Recovery

Visually impaired runners beat the regular Olympians in the 1500 meters!

The Amazon Echo

Even if Your Balcony is Small It’s Time to Grow Again!

Getting Your ScripTalk Prescription from a Brick and Mortar Pharmacy

Does Your Pill Bottle Talk? Latest Update from ScripTalk

Christian Thaxton A Journal of Vision Loss Part 3: Moving to Boston

Poem on Blindness

Christian Thaxton: A Journal of Vision Loss, Part 2 Training for Independence