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by Kim Ladd, RN, BS, CPHQ, CDCES Effectively Managing Medications If you have a chronic disease, like diabetes, effectively managing your medications is an important part of staying healthy. However, if you are blind, you may wonder how you can manage your medications if you can’t see them.  Resources and accessible devices are available to […]

In June 2023, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) [of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)] released a report on changes in the retina (the layer of cells lining the back wall of the inside the eye that perceives light and signals the brain so one can see) and their relationship to stages of Alzheimer’s disease […]

“I have never walked into a room full of strangers and instantly connected,” says Rob Harris. Rob attended the APH ConnectCenter Family Retreat recently held in Louisville, and he hasn’t stopped raving about the amazing connections he made or the amount of information he has absorbed since. Rob says that it wasn’t difficult to become […]

If you think the visual performing arts are only for sighted people, you’re missing out on a world of entertainment. That’s because audio description turns theatre, television, and movies into experiences for individuals who are blind or low vision. It provides narration for the visual elements of a production, such as scene changes, settings, costumes, […]