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Podcast: Growing up Blind Conversations with Dr. G
Episode: Beatrice born mobility visually impaired in 1944, blind in 1956, first O&M lesson in 1960
Description: Send a text  Beatrice weighed 2 pounds when was born into a family that already had four children. Her mom and dad didn’t have insurance and avoided hospitals. I don’t think my mother real…my mother or father realized how poor my vision was. She remembered that she was only able to see partially out of her right eye. She didn’t realize how little sight she had until recently when she remembered how she used to cry as a little girl because she couldn’t answer the questions in school. In the first grade, they’d have problems or...