On Monday, a friend and I were talking about our experiences when it comes to our vision loss. We were talking about how some professionals, like eye doctors, have told me that I was saying that I have problems seeing print for attention. As many of you know, I have Nystagmus that make my eyesContinue reading “When Nystagmus Makes Me Sad”
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Writing my book…one word at a time
For the past few months, I have been re writing my book. Ever since the loss of my hard drive back in November. I had to go back to a previous saved copy of my book. Therefore, I have not been doing a lot of extra writing projects. My goal is to finish this book.Continue reading “Writing my book…one word at a time”
Five Key Tips To Help Your Student Succeed In School
Sign your visually impaired student up for Bookshare.org: Bookshare.org has thousands of books that your child can access. The best part of this is if your student is in K-college they can have a membership for free. If a student needs a book for school, and it is not already available on Bookshare, a requestContinue reading “Five Key Tips To Help Your Student Succeed In School”
My top five suggested school supplies for Visually Impaired Students
Across the world many students are returning to the classroom. For some parents this may be the first time their child who has a visual impairment may be getting a formal education. I have seen on many support groups that you want to help your child be as successful as possible. To help with thisContinue reading “My top five suggested school supplies for Visually Impaired Students”
Section four: Public Transit and Paratransit-Going Places: A Hadley School for the Blind and Visually Impaired review
This lesson was on public transit and paratransit and it gave me feelings of anger. That is because I know how limited paratransit can be in my local area. Using my local paratransit makes me feel trapped. There were four sections in this lesson. The first one was about the advantages and disadvantages of bothContinue reading “Section four: Public Transit and Paratransit-Going Places: A Hadley School for the Blind and Visually Impaired review”
Section three: Walking and Biking-Going Places: A Hadley School for the Blind and Visually Impaired review
In this section of “Going Places” from my Hadley School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Review I want to talk about what I learned about walking and biking. This lesson brought back memories of my childhood. As a child, one of my favorite things to do was to ride my bike. I found thatContinue reading “Section three: Walking and Biking-Going Places: A Hadley School for the Blind and Visually Impaired review”
Going places: A Hadley School for the Blind and Visually impaired Review
Introduction: I decided to take this course because not being able to drive has a big impact on my life. Even though I can not give out course information I am going to give you some inside as to how I feel about each topic that was covered in this course, and how I feelContinue reading “Going places: A Hadley School for the Blind and Visually impaired Review”