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Podcast: Growing up Blind Conversations with Dr. G
Episode: Michael was born sighted in 1943 and became blind in 1945
Description: Send a textThis week is Michael born in 1943 – 2 years before the long cane was invented. He became blind at 2 years of age due to retinoblastoma. He received his first O&M instruction at the school for the blind from a blind adult. Michael details some of the strategies that the instructor employed to teach him to use sound and some funny outcomes as well. He also discussed some of the differences working with a sighted instructor. We also discussed some of the impacts of the rule that blind people could not be O&M instructors in th...