Pipecleaner Dreams

I was intially very excited when Ashley came home with a packet of information from our state agency, the Department for the Blind and Visio...

This is a company that 'gets it'! Makes me want to move to South Africa! Have a wonderful weekend!

VAAPVI, the Virginia Association for Parents of the Visually Impaired had planned a beeping Easter Egg hunt for the weekend before Easter. ...

My sweet Ashley can use inappropriate language quite well. She signs it instead of speaking it, but I learned a long time ago, that not onl...

I used to travel a lot for work and I always had recurring nightmares about being in a strange city, walking around, and getting horribly lo...

It seems to me that technology to assist people with disabilities has really taken a huge step forward recently. Almost every day, I read a...

I love having a geek in the family! My son, Chip, is always finding things that I never knew I needed, but then realized I couldn't liv...

Anyone that has been reading my blog for a while knows how I feel about devices such as the Kindle reader and the lack of accessible feature...

It's almost Valentine's Day, and again I need ideas on what to get Ashley. She has a very limited range of foods that she will eat, ...

How can you use a camera if you can't see? Over 30 blind and visually impaired adults from the UK, Mexico and China have been trained in...

Some of you may have seen this remarkable young man on Extreme Makeover Home Edition. I watched the show and fell in love with Patrick and ...

First, an update to yesterday’s post – thank you all for your comments. I have some places to start looking now, and I’m not feeling quite ...

I’ve written before, here and here , about the Kindle and how it is not accessible for people who are blind. So, I was really pleased to r...

Almost every day I run across a news story about technological advances to aid people who are blind, deaf or deafblind. It's very excit...

When I first met Ashley and her then-foster mother, Linda, she was quick to point out all the things Ashley couldn’t do. I, on the other ha...

One of the wonderful things about having a geek for a son is that I find out about all the new products being developed or already available...

If a surgery existed that might help your child’s disabilities, would you agree to it? Parents of children who are deaf agree to cochlear i...

Last February, Amazon unveiled its latest version of Kindle , an e-book reader. The new Kindle boasts some amazing features, even the abili...

A few weeks ago, I asked my geeky and brilliant son to invent a way for deaf people to play a piano and to ‘hear’ what they were playing. I...

Happy birthday, Louis Braille! The 200th anniversary of Louis Braille’s birth on January 4, 1809, is being celebrated this year, and to bli...