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Learn about your rights and methods for communicating your needs to others.
As anyone who is blind or low vision knows, we experience an entire spectrum of interactions in the sighted world, from professional, to patronizing, from helpful, to humiliating. Among my earliest and most humorous memories as a blind child, my mother would say to restaurant servers, in her most innocent voice, “Well, I don’t know […]
Some organizations advocate on behalf of people who are blind or low vision. Friends and family can offer assistance. Ultimately, however, living independently requires learning self-advocacy—the ability to speak and act on your behalf. Blindness or low vision makes you no less a person. And while the nation has made great strides in fighting discrimination […]
Communicating your needs effectively requires clearly defining for yourself what it is that you need. Defining your needs allows you to express them clearly so that you will be more likely to get those needs met. This sounds simple but often becomes more complicated when aging and vision changes intervene. Aging well with vision loss […]