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- Neily Jennings
- Username: plasticdinosaur
- Location: Austin, TX
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- "Walking Blind"
- Summary: Sarah Dalsimer follows one blind New Yorker on his morning commuter.
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Review of Walking Blind
Neily Jennings
Posted on December 18, 2006 at 07:50 AM
?Walking Blind? invites listeners to join a blind man on his daily New York City commute. As a person who lost his vision at the age of 15, Mike Cush is able to compare his perceptions of a world navigated by sight to a world navigated with a cane. Other perspectives are offered by Nancy Miller, Executive Director of Visions, and Ruth Callen, an orientation and mobility teacher, who explain the training process associated with functioning without vision.
The piece is both engaging and informative, balancing a man?s personal experience with issues that may not have come up 20 years ago, like surfing the Internet as a blind person. Though Mike is clearly thriving in his environment, I would like to have heard his take on some of the major obstacles that remain for the visually impaired.