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Vision Loss and Personal Recovery

Introducing Katie Shannon and 3 Crock Pot Dishes for Easy Entertaining

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 […]

This is the first of a series of posts from Christian about his loss of vision, and how he went from a high school baseball star in Duncan Oklahoma to where he is today. Hello! My name is Christian Thaxton. I’m a 22 year old, low-vision college student and former college baseball player. While I’m […]

5 Things I Wish People Understood About Being Legally Blind. This is a perceptive post by Natasha Baebler which anyone with some vision but not a whole lot will appreciate.

Re-post from The Moth Radio Hour: Ryan Knighton, a blind Dad, did 2 presentations as part of the moth radio hour on National Public Radio. They are pretty funny and true. Here is the link to them. He has also written a memoir called Cockeyed

Where I work we recently purchased four lovely bronze planters that presently stand outside the doors to the Carroll Center Tech building with full lush ’mums in them. Soon enough, these will die back as winter arrives. Not wanting to see those planters empty, I purchased spring blooming bulbs and relocated the planters from outside to […]

Here are Julie’s recommendations for apps that help you get around; on your feet, using a transit system or in a car…and how to know what is around you. On Your iPhone, Using Siri to Get Directions To Where You Want to Go The Maps app built into the iPhone provides turn-by-turn directions to […]

Cooking with Disabilities, An Exercise in Creative Problem-solving. Re-post from National Public Radio which begins with a blind chef. Here is the link.

Introducing – Julie Atkins Julie has a passion for assistive technology and believes it opens up a whole new world to people with vision impairment. Her favorite thing to teach is the iPhone with VoiceOver, and she makes it a point to keep up with the best apps for people with vision impairment. Julie agreed to […]

Saving Fern: from contributor Jan Peccarrari

Do you wonder if blindness will prevent you from being a good gardener? Jan is the go-to expert for indoor and porch gardening at the Carroll Center One morning a coworker came to me, “Jan, I need your help.” I turned from my computer, expecting something needed to be filed or electronically retrieved. “I was given […]

Vision Loss and Personal Recovery Begins a New Chapter

Vision Loss and Personal Recovery has been going for just over two years now. I have posted about 100 blogposts and believe that much of the information that I want clients leaving the Carroll Center to have at their fingertips is now online. I am glad that other people have discovered the website too. All […]

Vision loss and Personal Recovery

WHEN YOU CAN'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES

Welcome

When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes

Speak Up Skills

Vision Loss and Personal Recovery

Introducing Katie Shannon and 3 Crock Pot Dishes for Easy Entertaining

Introducing Christian Thaxton

Re-Post from The Mighty About Legal Blindness and the Public’s Misunderstandings

Post from The Moth Radio Hour: 2 Presentations by a Blind Dad

Blooms With Meaning

Transportation Apps: #2 of Julie Atkins Guides to the Best Apps for Vision Loss

Cooking with Disabilities; Re-Post from NPR

Using OCR – Optical Character Recognition with Vision Loss or Blindness

Saving Fern: from contributor Jan Peccarrari

Vision Loss and Personal Recovery Begins a New Chapter