A fun and easy way to spice up your home for the holiday season that you and your family can enjoy. Hi everyone! My name is Tina de Araujo and I work at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton Ma. I am a Vision Rehabilitation Therapist, and I love my job. Working with […]
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All of us who work and live in the blindness community have a double reason to be grateful to the men and women who serve in the military. For it was as a result of the soldiers blinded in World War II that rehab programs were developed by the Veterans’ Administration. In 1954, Fr. […]
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Shubham Banerjee aged 13, from California has invented a braille printer expected to sell for around $400. And he has got venture capital funding to produce it! Soon you will be printing a braille message on greetings cards anytime you like. Check last week’s post.
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As, doctor knows your medical condition, response to treatment and education of patients and their families are essential in the treatment of bipolar disorder in adolescents and called “pediatric bipolar disorder” A report published on Oct. 2 in Southampton England finds stem cells in eyes. The discovery holds out hope for future treatment of some eye […]
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Going to a show; a musical, a play, dance show or opera can be too painful in the first years after vision loss. There’s no doubt that seeing the stage set, the actors and their gestures perhaps even their expressions, is a great part of the enjoyment. Even watching the audience can be fun. Some […]
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Re-posted from Public Radio International There’s a small town in Peru that likes to be known for its peaches, but now its known as well for the number of its men who go blind at fifty…
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Vision Loss and Personal Recovery welcomes its first guest blogger DeAnn Elliott DeAnn shares important information for seniors who may think they’re confused, but maybe it’s not that at all… Out of Sight, Out of Mind It happened again this morning. My teenager told me that I’d left the cream cheese in front of the toaster, instead of putting […]
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David Kingsbury is a guide at the MFA (Museum of Fine Arts) in Boston, which is surprising because he is blind. You might think that an art museum was the last place someone who had lost all his sight in mid-career would want to be! Why go somewhere where it’s completely visual after losing vision? […]
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Every shape, size, Color and furriness of canine walking with their families to raise money for the Carroll Center yesterday
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NBC has a new sit-com, Growing Up Fisher, which airs on Tuesdays at 9.30pm. EST. It’s great to have a central character in a network comedy show who is blind. Every time someone with vision loss is given an active, lively personality on TV or in a movie, it makes the public a little more […]
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