Editor’s note: January is always a time for New Year’s resolutions, and maintaining a healthy life style should be at the top of your list! Read what Peer Advisor Lenore Dillon has to say about "Eyes Free Fitness." Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle Can Be Challenging Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can be challenging for anyone, especially … Continued
Caption: Helen cutting birthday cake Every year during the week of Helen Keller’s birthday, the nation honors her during Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness Week. Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child on June 27, 1880, to Captain Arthur H. and Kate Adams Keller of Tuscumbia, Alabama. At the tender age of 19 months, she … Continued
Blindness Perceived as Devestating Disability Blindness has long been perceived as the most devastating disability. Society holds that vision loss leaves a person helpless and hopeless. As a direct result of this opinion, many who are diagnosed with a vision loss think they have no hope for the future. Many people who have gone through … Continued
Life Not Over After Vision Loss At the onset of a vision loss a person often feels helpless and hopeless. This helpless feeling is normal as vision loss impacts every part of life. Even the simplest task, learned as a young child, often seem impossible. More challenging tasks such as using a computer, appear to … Continued
Challenges Everyone has been presented with many challenges throughout their lifetime. Some more than others, but we all have challenges. When presented with any type of challenge it is natural that our behaviors change initially. For example, often when we hear any discouraging news, our knee jerk behavior is to react. We ask “Why me?” … Continued
In honor of Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (VRT) Appreciation Week, we are starting a series of tips developed by VRTs. The first in this series are some time-saving and safety techniques/hints used by Vision Rehabilitation Therapists/Rehabilitation Teachers throughout the United States. These are simply ideas that have been used with some degree of success by other … Continued