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Advocating Always: A Request for the Wheatley Tactile Diagramming Kit

Imagine that you are assigned to an unfamiliar school for your student-teaching placement. Your vocational rehabilitation counselor has purchased the Picture Maker: Wheatley Tactile Diagramming Kit for your use in learning routes in the school and new community because he understands the benefit of this tool. Now imagine you meet your new orientation and mobility (O&M) instructor […]

Clinical Trial for Medication for Geographic Atrophy

Medically reviewed by Sefy Paulose, MD What is Geographic Atrophy? As noted on APH VisionAware, “Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is a gradual, progressive, painless deterioration of the macula, which is the small area in the center of the retina that gives us our detailed vision.” Geographic Atrophy (GA) is the most advanced form of dry […]

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Thriving With Changing Vision by Adapting Year After Year

Zelda Gebhard doesn’t identify as a person with low vision because she’s so much more than that. “I’m a whole person,” she says. “Along with my career, I’m a wife, mother, and grandmother. I have a full life with interests and hobbies. I’m not that much different than a person who doesn’t have vision loss. […]

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Career Conversations: One Year of Interviewing Professionals who are Blind or Low Vision

What if I told you there’s a place you can listen to individuals who are blind or low vision share about their current employment and how they prepared for it? There, you can ask your pressing questions—how did they know the career field is what they wanted to pursue; how did they navigate disclosing blindness/ […]

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Nine Best Practices for Writing Alt Text

Editor’s Note: In honor of National Technology Day, Jan. 6, read on to learn both the importance of alternative text (alt text) for individuals who are blind/ low vision and how to write it. Accessing the internet is important to people who are blind or low vision. We all get online to surf the web, […]

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