Stories
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Walk, interrupted
By listing all the things that get in her way, Caroline Butterwick wants to create an embodied experience of disability and convince you that inclusion is everyone’s responsibility.
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The unimprovable white cane
Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.
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Navigating in a connected world
Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.
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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
Catalogue
- Books
Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002 : Chapter 33.
Great Britain.Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Art and visually impaired people : a conference report, 10 May 1995.
Date: 1996- Books
Blindness and visual handicap : the facts / John H. Dobree and Eric Boulter.
Dobree, John Hatherley.Date: 1982- Books
Report on the welfare of the blind in various countries : based on replies furnished to a questionnaire sent out by the Health Organisation of the League.
Health Organisation.Date: [1929]- Books
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A blind man's offering / by B. B. Bowen.
Bowen, B. B. (Benjamin B.), 1819-1905.Date: 1850