A Horse Guides The Blind – CNN

We all know labradors are good for guiding the hearing and deaf blind people. Now there’s a new twist, as reported in CNN.com.
A blind woman has turned to her miniature horse, Panda, as a source of guiding through the city and country streets of Bethelem, NY. Read on!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/28/guide.horse.ap/index.html
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Photographing the Silence & Darkness

I came across this site by photographer Harvey Finkle, by simply typing Deaf Blind in Google Images Search.
I am blown away by the beautiful snapshots by Finkle, who goes around capturing the heart & soul of the Deaf Blind people. There are a few people I recognized – I am proud to say I am [...]

Equipment for the Deaf-Blind

I came across this link which provides information on various accessible equipment designed for the Deaf-Blind people. This site is fairly old, in the age of technology, but if you’re interested in purchasing or finding out more information – most of these product providers have their websites & phone numbers listed.
Hopefully someday I will have [...]

Contributing Writers Wanted

Tactile the World is recruiting writers to make a contribution to information access on the Web for the Deaf Blind community and educating others who are sighted.
Those who can contribute:
- Deaf-Blind people: legally, partially, fully & nearly blind & with hearing loss.
- Spouse, partner, lover, friends & relatives of Deaf Blind people
- Support Service Providers, [...]

Fun with Braille

by Marisa Bennett, contributing writer
 

Fun with Braille
Recently, when bored by insomnia, I entertained my brain in a way that only sighted Braille dorks like me (who are also linguistics geeks) tend to do. I went through most of the photos tagged “Braille” on flickr and posted transcriptions of the ones I could read. The ones [...]

Site Help, Please!

Greetings -
Several people have commented on the hard-to-read font colors on my site – and I have no clue how to change them other than doing my entries on Wordperfect, then changing the color, then pasting it on WordPress. But then the paragraphs would be gone, lines would stick together.
Dilemma, dilemma. What I want to [...]

Blindness & Poverty In Canada

Worth reading for those blind & living in Canada. This article made me feel very, very fortunate I just got a well-paid part-time job as a teacher. I have no clue what the poverty rate among the blind is in the United States or abroad – but if you come across that information, do share [...]

Are We Disabled?

Are the people that have lost sight and hearing considered disabled? Or double-disabled? Or just a thorn in normalcy?
One of the readers brought up a very good question and it’s one I have asked myself and others ever since it dawned on me that I would eventually become blind. It hadn’t dawned on me when [...]

VEEing Usher Syndrome, and with a sense of humour.

I was googling images on Tunnel Vision and Usher Syndrome when I came across these and a cup of sugar.
 

so dolly the sheep had Usher’s, too? rotfmao
 

to be this young and think he’s a piece of beefcake would surely mean one has tunnel vision, ha

at a degree of approximately 10 degrees out of 90 each [...]

The Buff and Blue: Fix The Cracks

Moderator’s Note: This article was published in the fall of 2005 while I worked at the SBG feverishly to pinpoint the structural errors and hazards and the administration wasn’t being very attentive or effective. So I figured that the two main student-run media outlets, the Buff and Blue and BisonTV would run the story on [...]