Author Archives: Shannon Carollo

Toilet training is often viewed as a looming hurdle, a giant obstacle, and an exhausting feat. One requiring patience upon patience. We parents arm ourselves with a litany of literature, hoping to prepare our children for success and ourselves with realistic expectations. Still, most toilet-training literature is written for children who are fully sighted. While […]

If you hear, “accommodations and modifications for children and teens who are blind or low vision,” your first thought is likely “children accessing education.” You’d be right, but that’s not where the necessity for accommodations concludes! Parents and teachers are often quite focused on our children grasping the academic curriculum and reaping the full benefit […]

The National Freedom of Information Day (March 16th) is a day Americans, with renewed energy, remind us of the importance of government transparency. We, the people, have a right to information. The very idea of “freedom of information” re-energizes and reminds me that people who are blind AND people who have low vision have a […]