A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
Browsing Tag
Over the years it has become important for me to read books that allow me to better understand the experiences of people whose backgrounds differ from my own. I have come to appreciate the wealth of voices that are available in both the fiction and non-fiction spaces. I am fascinated by what I can learn …
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 …
The final blog post about my reading this year is about the books related to disability, the final category of diversity that I mentioned in my previous post. Below are the books I’ve read that are either by authors with disabilities, with characters who have a disability, or are on the subject of disability. Here …
Last time I shared ways in which I am making my content more accessible to people who are blind. This week I want to focus on how I am trying to make my content more inclusive of the people from the deaf community and those living with hearing loss. I am having to think more …
With today being Women’s Day I felt it was appropriate to pay tribute to two women who played a significant role in shaping my thinking when I lost my sight. Though each of these women surely deserve far more than just a few words, today I want to focus on what I learned from their …