A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
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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 …
After my somewhat sobering review of the past year, I wanted to spotlight one area of my work in which I have achieved what I set out to this year, that of my podcast, A Different Way of Seeing. I try to release an episode of the show every two weeks, or rather twice each …
Not only has music become a regular self-care practice for me when undergoing dialysis. There are two other pastimes that I have managed to assimilate into my regular activities when at my treatment, those of reading and listening to podcasts. When I began my treatments, I wasn’t sure how much I’d be able to do. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Here is another podcast interview I recently did, this time on the Include with Dr Liz podcast. There were several things I really enjoyed about this conversation. Dr Liz and I discussed my unwillingness to subscribe to labels. I feel that society so often defines us by our labels when we are, in reality, far …
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 …