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Podcast: Growing up Blind Conversations with Dr. G
Episode: Dr. Jo born 1939 with low vision, became blind age 11
Description: Send a textJo was gifted in math and was quite capable, the first born – she helped look after her 3 siblings. Although long white canes had been used for 5 years when she became blind, one was not provided to her when she needed it. In school, there were plenty of ways for her to learn independently -she had talking books and eventually learned braille to read independently, but the most natural independence of all- walking, she was taught a dependent solution. The only solution they could think of was for her to walk with an escort to ke...