Getting My Independence Again!
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Getting My Independence Again!
After losing your vision you have to
totally learn everything.
When I was posted back to Gagetown
with my family I got hooked up with the CNIB,
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind,
which I tell people without them
I would still be at home not knowing what
to do with this vision loss because they
had taught me everything when I first got
posted back I got hooked up with a
mobility specialist who taught me how
to use my white cane and how to get
around the street safely so she would
come to my house once a week.
We would go for walks around the
community, taught me how to get
around the house safely. Taught me
how to get around the street safely
listening to traffic and how to cross
intersections safely and then once we had
a few sessions in we started doing more
difficult things moving downtown with
more people and more traffic and
more intersections and she taught me
how to walk across the streets with the
busy intersections with the beeps and
the tweets you now hear.
Those are for the blind people so they
can get across the street safely and no
one when to cross.
And after I had finished all my
mobility lessons with her I needed
to start getting back on the technology
side so I went into the CNIB in
Fredericton, New Brunswick and the
technology specialist there who had,
who’s actually been blind since birth
was the technology specialist there so
he taught me how to use my new phone
and use all the new Apple products
that had voice over on it.
I got back on my computer and had to
learn how to type with no vision.
So after I learned all that he taught me
how to get back on the computer and
use my phone and get back on
the social media and whatnot.
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