A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
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I am excited to let you know that more of my books are becoming available on Bookshare. So far, my memoir “A Different Way of Seeing: A Blind Woman’s Journey of Living an ‘Ordinary’ Life in an Extraordinary Way“ and the first of my illustrated children’s books, “Missy Mouse Goes to the Park” …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji, I’m jumping up and down and bounding around in ecstatic circles to tell you that my book has finally been published. Paws for Thought: Seeing the World Through the Eyes of a Guide Dog is full of stories about me and my human and doggy family, from my puppyhood …
In the past month I’ve written quite a bit about the books I’ve been reading. Which has resulted in a few questions about how I actually engage with books. When I first lost my sight I had no idea of how I might be able to read books. Reading had been a fundamental part of …
Okay, okay, so I’m not actually touring round Africa. But what else would you call it? This year I set myself two reading goals: to read some of the classics I didn’t get to when I was at school, and to focus on reading outside the genres I tend to default to. The first book …
First, a very happy new year to you all! May 2021 be a year with many wonderful adventures for you! Let’s hope the year will bring a little more stability than the last one. My tradition over the past few years has been to start off with a post about my intentions for the year …
Though I’m a prolific reader, and have always been so, I seldom read non-fiction. In fact, I will seldom read more than a single non-fiction book in the course of a year. It’s not that I have anything against non-fiction. It’s just that I spend so much time in the real world that I find …
“I can’t imagine any visually impaired person would prefer reading books using a computer voice rather than a human voice!” I’m probably misquoting the words but that was the sense of a comment I heard on one of the assistive technology podcasts I regularly listen to. My immediate response was to disagree vehemently… and then …
Sometimes it’s easy to criticize organisations that aren’t accessible to a person with a disability. Today I want to highlight a company that is going over and above the call of duty to make their products available to those of us who are visually impaired. As many of you know I’m a prolific reader. Okay …
I recently had the opportunity to test-drive a C-Pen Reader. For those who have never heard of the C-Pen, it’s a portable device designed to assist persons with reading and language-related learning barriers to access print material in an audio format. It looks a little like a highlighter pen and the basic idea is that …