Growing up Blind Conversations with Dr. G
Host Dr. Grace Ambrose-Zaken, President and CEO Safe Toddles non-profit and inventor of the Pediatric Belt Cane for blind toddlers discusses why her mission is to make walking safer for toddlers with a mobility visual impairment or blindness. Listen to: Interviews with families, professionals, adults who grew up with a mobility visual impairment or blindness, and more. For more information about this blog contact: 845-244-6600, info@safetoddles.org
Podcasting since 2020 • 61 episodes
Growing up Blind Conversations with Dr. G
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Susan born 1953 a "high partial" whose parents actively rejected her using a white cane
My friend Susan who was born with retinopathy of prematurity and had 20/400 and 20/800 she is effectively mobility visually impaired – perhaps that cutoff is 20/500, so by 100 ? that’s a lot of stress. Susan and I met because she was the ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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Mike Jones born 1963 - grew up using echolocation until his first dog guide in his second year of college.
For New Years Eve 2024 I’m bringing you one of my all-time favorite interviews- conducted November 1999, just shy of Y2K- blind travel was not for the faint of heart. Born in 1963 –he didn’t get a full-time mobility tool until his f...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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Barbara born blind in 1953 her first long cane in 1980 when she was 27 years old
From 1999 – 2001, as a young professor I conducted over 100 interviews with employed adults with blindness. I was seeking insight into my profession from the everyday consumer – and I continue to learn and improve my practice by listening absen...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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Audrey Born 1953 working mother who embraced wayfinding technology before it was cool!
Born in 1953, she got the full crazy treatment growing up blind. Yet, somehow she came through it all very well adjusted-a working wife and mother she has the same desires as anyone..Her life is one lived just before the technology boom ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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Mike born 1952, blind due to RLF/ROP a MUST LISTEN for all O&M Graduate Students!: Part 2
This was one of the very early interviews I had done. Twenty-five years ago, late one evening I sat down across the table in my Hunter College office with good friend, Mike Levy. He had come prepared with written statements of memories and fami...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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