White canes leave the partially-blind in the dark

[jason]

CTV.ca | White canes leave the partially-blind in the dark

The white cane is an important tool and a clear symbol for those who suffer from blindness. But an Ontario woman says its usefulness doesn’t extend to the more than 600,000 Canadians with a less severe form of vision impairment.
Libby Thaw, a mother of four who lives in Saugeen Shores, Ont., wants to change that.

This is from a while back. Libby’s a friend from my undergrad days. She was the first person to sensitize me to issues with low vision for individuals caught in the middle of the sighted/blind binary dialectic. This is almost 25 years ago, and she’s still got something interesting going on every time I hear from her. Go libby!

Comments

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

thanks for sharing the anecdote and for the link.

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

any time. as my vision gets worse, I think of what I learned from her more.