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Fall Reading: Creative Adjustments to Vision Loss and the Virus!

While you wait out COVID19 here’s a great list of books about adjusting to vision loss and blindness compiled by vision rehab professionals earlier this summer. Many of these books are memoirs and reading how other people have worked to create a whole life is an important part of personal recovery. VisionAware has a post […]

My last birthday was biggish and my generous younger daughter offered me my choice of a new smartphone. My remaining vision depends on color so I loved the large screens and brighter colors. I did think, but not very hard, about the extra stretch to reach the buttons, which are also tougher to press, combined […]

Hands sliding over a new toaster to check out the placement of the slots and controls. This post Your Wonderful Hands is a re-post from the early months of this blog: August 2014. It’s to remind all of us who live with sight loss how vital and skillful our hands are. It accompanies the […]

C Conversation with Haben Girma, Re-post from AFB American Foundation for the Blind. Haben is a disability rights lawyer, author and speaker, who gained a Harvard law degree despite blindness and deafness. In this interview she speaks of the necessity of building a team of friends. I have paired this interview with the Joe Buizon […]

Referred to in my new book When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: Vision Loss and Personal Recovery, Chapter 12, “Continuing at Your Work.” There is more expert thinking from Joe in Chapter 1, “What About Your Job?” and Chapter 12, “Can You Keep Your Job?” Background with photo An Interview with Joe Buizon, Employment Services […]

As wildfires force evacuations in California, and Hurricane Laura flattens parts of Louisiana, here are tips for any sudden move because of weather events or the Corona virus, ( as well as for professional events and vacations.) Guest post by Jennifer Harnish, Head of Rehab at the Carroll Center for the Blind, Newton MA Referred […]

Accessible voting for people who are blind or low vision Re-Post from American Council of the Blind. Access to voting in the November General Election is such an important topic right now with millions more people expected to cast their votes by mail. It’s especially relevant to us blind and low vision voters. We often […]

Dealing with Vision Loss in Your Partner, Parent, or Best Friend. This post published in April 2014 had had the longest -running comment section of any; the latest just last week! All the comments are from partners of someone who has lost a lot of sight. Partners of adults with vision loss do not have […]

Many of us blind and visually impaired people feel like the young man in the story below during this pandemic – without the maids and bodyguards! We seniors are stuck at home, sometimes feeling lonely and isolated. Like the young man we can feel emotionally neglected, even as services get cut, some of them permanently. […]

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

Fall Reading: Creative Adjustments to Vision Loss and the Virus!

Bigger Smartphones Can Mean Hand Pain

Your Wonderful Hands Re-Post from June 2014

A conversation with Haben Girma, Re-Post from AFB

Pointers Towards Employment

Packing Like a Pro

Time to Check That Your Vote Can Be Cast Accessibly in Your Town and State.

6 Years On…The Grief and Courage of Partners

THE PAIN OF ISOLATION