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The first time I forayed into online dating, I let my wheelchair show just a little in my photos. The good guys, I hoped, would be so taken by my clever profile and witty banter that they’d be able to look beyond my disability, if they even noticed it at all.
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I have binged on those books at least once a decade since the late 1970s. Memoirs or biographies highlighting the real or metaphorical scaling of heights which have, ultimately, positioned blind people at the pinnacle of achievement in chosen fields of music, science, law, drama, sports, adventure, and more.
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“[It’s] one of the few times I feel like a normal person, you know?” said Paula Peltier who participated in They Will Surf Again. “I caught about 10 waves and never wiped out once.
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Blind Football Player Snaps for Extra Point in a U.S.C. Win
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Sep 06, 2017
A blind football player for the University of Southern California participated in his first college regular-season game on Saturday, snapping the ball on the final extra point in the fourth-ranked Trojans’ 49-31 home victory over Western Michigan.
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Ten Thousand Steps, Cane Not Included: A Guide to Fitness Tech for Blind Users
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Aug 26, 2017
Technology, we all know, can be an amazing game changer. Now, for some of us, it’s changing the game of access to health and fitness for blind people, and Anna Dresner’s book, Ten Thousand Steps, Cane Not Included is brimming with a smorgasbord of approaches to that can be done without sighted assistance or even, in many cases, without leaving home.