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How do you think a blind woman and her guide dog would experience a four-day hike along the beautiful coastline of South Africa? That’s the story I’m sharing in my latest podcast episode, Paws on the Path – Hiking the. Pondo Trail with Angela Blackwell and Guide Dog Jaydee. What I love about this episode …
Have you ever wanted to be a guest on the A Different Way of Seeing podcast, a podcast where we talk all things disability? If so, now is the time. I’m starting to record new episodes for the show and would love to invite you to reach out if you have a disability or are …
Taking another quick break from my dialysis journey, I wanted to show you that I’m still managing to fit in a little of the work I love so much, that of sharing my story and speaking about all that is possible for those of us living with disabilities. Today I thought I’d let you know …
Across the globe, people love sport. Every country has several sports that their population particularly supports. In South Africa, the favourites are cricket, football/soccer, and rugby, though these are by no means the only sports that are both played and supported passionately here. As with so many other aspects of life, somehow people seem to …
As I’ve expressed many times before, often the greatest obstacles we face as people with disabilities are the barriers imposed on us by the non-disabled community. People who have no personal contact with disability are seldom able to understand what we can achieve. They usually assume wrongly that our disability means we are restricted or …
I am frequently placed in situations where I have to explain the work that I do. More than that, I have to explain why I feel my work is important and relevant to those who choose to engage with it. I thought it might be interesting to share some information on that topic here in …
Great news! My podcast has gone video! A few weeks ago I took the decision to release some of my podcast episodes as videos on YouTube. Naturally, only those episodes where I have permission both to capture and to share the content. There are two primary reasons for me to start doing this. First, so …
I wasn’t born with my disability. Nor was I born during a time of war, as was Ghofran Alyass, one of my recent podcast guests. I can’t even begin to imagine what that must be like for a parent, having to care for a child with complex needs at such an uncertain time. Finally, as …
I first became fascinated by stories when I was a young girl. I vividly remember spending hoursreading my children’s Bible and losing myself in the stories. While I admit that it didn’t leave mewith a particular religious zeal, it certainly did have a significant impact on my life. I recently found myself reflecting on how …
I recently had the opportunity of exploring the concept of making the visual world accessible to the blindness community through the use of audio description. It was the subject of a podcast episode with Shakila Maharaj, the managing director of ShazaCin Accessible Media, who is one of the foremost proponents of audio description in South …